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This Week in Logistics News (July 15-19, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Con-way Freight Raises the Bar on Mexico Service, Adds Door-to-Door Tracking, 24-Hour Customer Resource Center, Enhanced Web Tools. LLamasoft Launches Data Services to Provide Reference Data for the Supply Chain Design Community. In this week’s news, new products and services and a couple of acquisitions top the list.

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New Shipping Operations Ideas Bring Fresh Air to Stale Strategies

Intelligent Audit

Referring to the initiative in an October earnings call , Tomé said, “ It’s also about combining digital solutions with our global integrated network to create more value for our customers and new revenue opportunities for UPS. ”. Freight Rail Labor Action Could Occur by Late November. Maersk Invests in U.S. Air Cargo Capabilities.

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Podcast: Peter Hove Hildebrandt and Sune Stilling Talk Venture Capital

Requis

I like the reference to the TV show “Silicon Valley”. Historically, people who know this industry know that it was very much “gut based”, where you would just make a few calls and then set the freight rates. There was a saying back then in Denmark, “You never never had to leave Maersk.” Highlights from the Conversation.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

This is due in part to the chokepoints they cause in the flow of global freight as well as the fact that they give people access to resources and commercial activity more effectively. The 115 mile Oresund Strait, a nautical dead end linking the North Sea and the Baltic, is a gateway between Denmark and Sweden.

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