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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice! Significance.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

The History of the Shipping Container. 26 April 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy. But the modern shipping container has changed much more than one industry. Category Key.

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Omni-Channel Supply Chains Are Changing Everything You Ever Learned in School…

Supply Chain View from the Field

His insights and presence were most appreciated by everyone, especially given the snowfall we were experiencing in Raleigh last night! The sales person who wants that commission is happy – but the one in Phoenix who has to ship what is perhaps the last small shirt in the store, loses on that potential sale.

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We Need Supply Chain Immunity, not Resiliency: A Position Paper

NC State SCRC

The paper is an attempt to create some logic in the fact of the chaotic healthcare supply chain events currently underway. After all, supply chain management is about getting things moving, and that applies not only to roads, airports, and ships, but to how we think about getting things to people.