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The Green Corridor: The Circular Journey

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Red Lion 2 facility of DB Schenker Singapore demonstrates how with current technology a facility for storage and work can also be a power generation facility. Look at packaging, office furniture, food waste from a conference, paper and promotional product waste from an advertising campaign. What happens after these items are used?

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Freight Rate News November 2015

Freightos

Wouldn’t it be amazing if someone could cut through the hype and summarize the key freight and logistics trends every month? Short Term Medium Term Special Feature Carriers & Cargo Innovation Freightos focus November 2015 freight and logistics trends that rate. GET INSTANT INTERNATIONAL FREIGHT QUOTES.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world part 2

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The transport and logistics industry has started to engage differently in the annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference. These efforts complete the set of the five (5Zs) initiatives that changed the world of transport and logistics during the 14 days of the Glasgow conference. Part 2–Defining the execution.

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The State of Digital Freight: The 4×4 Blueprint for Freight 2020

Freightos

The journey to digitize freight, while initially off to a slow start, has gained momentum in the last two or three years. They’re licensed to be an ocean freight forwarder, and they’ve bought some aircraft and an airport; and of course they are a huge warehousing player. Online freight booking. They’re coming.

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Green Skies? Airlines Need a Tail Wind to Decarbonize

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Pierpaolo Cazzola, International Transport Forum (ITF), an inter-governmental think tank, presented the organization’s recent findings and recommendations, ahead of the upcoming International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) conferences. To set the stage for this challenging task, we should note that before COVID-19, 2.5%

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Ground services for air freight: Opportunities & obstacles in e-commerce

DELMIA Quintiq

Or so I thought until I ran into some old and new friends at the recent Payload Asia Conference in Singapore. I decided to attend because one of the topics on the agenda was the impact of e-commerce on the air freight business. Or at least, this is what my fellow conference participants felt. Lagging technology.

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Is TPPA going to ground e-commerce or let it fly (ideally, as air freight)?

DELMIA Quintiq

This would mean that a consumer in Malaysia buying from Amazon in the US would not experience significant differences in pricing of the same product bought from an online store in Malaysia or neighboring Singapore. That leaves the trans-Pacific air freight lane as the key engine of growth, both in volume and revenue.