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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

What Berglund is referring to is the advantage that shipping lines hold for negotiations with cargo shippers for 2022 and beyond. Xeneta currently puts the Asia-West Coast spot rate at just under $10,000 per FEU, with some cargoes paying additional priority shipment fees of $1,400-$7,500. By October, it was up to $6,000-$6,500 per FEU.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

came from trucks carrying cargo. 15 countries, Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales declared that they will collaborate towards realizing 100 percent zero emission new trucks and bus sales by 2040.

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Some Supply Chain Management Principles are Timeless

Enterra Insights

It still takes a long time for cargo ships to transit the vast expanses of ocean. The supply chain owns sustainability. Although sustainability has not been a traditional supply chain principle, going forward it will be. Only for turkeys.” eft , 1 February 2013. [4] Inventories still need to be stored. Footnotes. [1]

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This Week in Logistics News (November 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

It’s hard to believe that we are getting ready for stuffed turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie. Thankfully my extended family swings toward the casual size, so it will be sweatpants for me as I enjoy turkey, all the fixings, and a rare Patriots Thanksgiving night game. billion in chemicals cargo a week.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

Lenovo’s innovative sustainability work with Maersk. That’s a big ask, despite reports that four-way grain export talks between Turkey, the United Nations, Ukraine, and Russia finally appear to have reached a breakthrough. Supply Chain Sustainability: Lenovo and Maersk Eco Delivery Partnership. The grain blockaded in Ukraine.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

Satirist Funk Turkey used lyrics.rip to scrape the Genius Lyrics Database and made a Markov Chain write Metallica lyrics. Warehouse rents near cargo airports skyrocket. Together [with IKEA] we can enhance safety, improve working conditions for drivers, and create a more sustainable freight transportation system.”.