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Logistics Responses to Europe’s Migrant Crisis

TMC

For example, early in the new year, Denmark tightened its border controls with Germany, after Sweden had imposed similar measures [2]. Probably the most notable outcome from a logistics standpoint has occurred in Calais, France, where trucks headed for the Channel Tunnel to the United Kingdom were being boarded by migrants.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

GEODIS, a third-party logistics provider (3PL), is using exoskeletons to support and protect employees’ backs at its warehouse in Venlo, the Netherlands. Content Summary: First Self-Sailing Electric Cargo Ship Set to Launch. Media Image. transactionID. 628c03e8-d52a-46b4-b585-4ef71333c513.

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Uberisation of Logistics – Are You Too Late?

Logistics Bureau

If existing providers cannot offer customers sufficiently flexible, granular (as in last mile delivery), and inexpensive logistics services, uberisation then looms larger as another choice. Nevertheless, some of the activities of third party logistics (3PL) providers are already similar to uberisation.