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Shipping Container Tracking and Sustainability: How it Reduces Carbon Footprint!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The Global Maritime Group warns that emissions could surge by 50% by 2050 without significant action. Tracking shipping containers optimizes logistics, minimizes waste and helps reduce releases. Improved Supply Chain Transparency Container tracking features enable visibility with blockchain and AI powered analytics.

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Tech-Driven Drayage: A PortPro Perspective with Corey Abbott

The Logistics of Logistics

Corey spent over a decade at STG Logistics, the nation’s leader in containerized freight, and XPO Logistics, where he built operational, financial, and back-office solutions to help companies and users across the globe.

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How Shipping Containers Revolutionized the Supply Chain Industry!

Supply Chain Game Changer

In 1956, he launched the first container ship , the Ideal X, carrying metal containers from New Jersey to Houston. This historic voyage marked the beginning of a new era in global trade. Standardization and Efficiency McLean’s innovation extended beyond the container to encompass an entire system built around it.

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The need to know

EFT

The need to know from Reuters’ global network of journalists Retailers rush to save US summer shopping season U.S. Container ship owners swamped as US-China trade detente revives demand Container ship bookings for China-to-U.S. retailers including Walmart (WMT.N) France's CMA CGM to redeploy fleet to avoid U.S.

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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

Logistics Viewpoints

Last October, over 100 ships, including 70 container ships, were waiting at anchor or in drift zones to unload at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. China accounts for about 12% of global trade. China’s stringent COVID lockdown in critical port cities has impacted global supply chains.

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Why Logistics Management is the Need of the Hour in the Middle East?

Shipsy

The global pandemic has caused a ruckus in the economy but logistics has risen as an efficient place of access for consumers with doorstep deliveries and minimum human interaction. For this, it is necessary to have a proper tracking of the product from the customer’s place to the warehouse. June 4, 2020.

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Tackling Drug Counterfeiting — Barcodes vs. RFID vs. Blockchain

Roambee

One of the major worries for the global pharmaceutical industry around patient safety is counterfeit drugs. Although most industries are focusing on supply chain efficiency, pharma supply chains bring a bigger worry into the picture: patient safety.