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Doing Business in Brazil

QAD

Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth largest country in the world. Brazil is located in Eastern South America and borders the Atlantic Ocean as well as the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Argentina and Germany.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

For centuries the expense, risk, and frustration with ocean freight held back expansion of the international economy, despite the invention of the steam invention. First use of a modern container for ocean freight. Did You Know That … It wasn’t just about freight. In 2014, the shipping ports of America received $1.73

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

The Freightos System is SaaS for freight contract management, automatic price quotations, and business intelligence. For centuries, the expense, risk, and frustration with ocean freight held back expansion of the international economy, despite the invention of the steam invention. First use of a modern container for ocean freight.

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What Could Stop Lithium from Revolutionizing Transportation?

Elementum

Lithium use continues to multiply, and it’s now used in laptops, smartphones, tablets and other consumer electronics. Still, lithium batteries and similar goods are categorized as dangerous goods, which imposes restrictions and compliance requirements among airlines, ground handlers, freight forwarders and shippers across the supply chain.

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Guest Commentary: Is Your TMS Pulling Its Weight?

Talking Logistics

You probably started your TMS project to manage shipping costs for your high-value freight, inbound or outbound. Your TMS will collect the necessary information to create the import and export documents and then submit them electronically to the appropriate government agencies. Have you considered managing the process in-house?

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Harvey and Irma’s Effect on the Logistics Industry

GTG Technology Group

Electronic Logging Device (ELD) implementation causes challenges. Here’s why Houston is so significant to transportation: Most goods transported from Mexico and South America go through Houston before being routed to their end destinations. Tonnage rose 4.8 percent in May. percent and 10 percent. into a lake.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

Given that some Asian and South American countries have no compunction about continuing to do business with Russia, and that many companies in the West have trade relationships in Asia and South America, the sanctions have caught many Western companies’ supply chains in a stranglehold. But the problems don’t stop there.