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If You Spend a Week with a Carrier’s Driver

Talking Logistics

He moves goods for Ikea around Western Europe, and had been in Denmark most recently. is not as bad as in Europe (there isn’t a similar source of “cheap labor” drivers here — or you can argue that all drivers are equally underpaid here), but drivers in the U.S. Apparently, those audits aren’t working very well.

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

Talking Logistics

Here are some additional details from the press release: Data Services data sets will include mode-specific transportation costs and transit times, facilities cost estimates, demographics, risk metrics, duties and taxes, sustainability metrics and others.

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4 Crucial Commodities to Watch in 2023

Resilinc

This means in order to meet the growing demand, lithium production must increase from 737,000 metric tons to more than 3 million tons by 2030 ( Washington Post ). Other sources note that there are ample lithium resources; an estimated 8 million tonnes in the world—and that lithium mining practices are becoming increasingly advanced.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Revenue: $14.2