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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Amazon plans to build delivery robot tech in Finland. Amazon has announced that it plans to develop new technology for its autonomous delivery vehicles in Helsinki, Finland. Now, furniture makers are seeing a logistics bottleneck create more problems as they try to keep up with demand.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The initiatives launched at COP26 will significantly reshape the transport and logistics ecosystem, its fleets, its infrastructure and its practices. COP26 has received more attention than previous summits.

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The World Bank Cares About Logistics

Supply Chain View from the Field

One of the highlights of the BVL was a panel discussion by the World Bank, talking about their global logistics study. Jean-Francois Arvis spoke about the World Bank Study on the Logistics and Public Sector. The World Bank is looking at logistics form a policy perspective, which has just emerged in the last ten years.

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RELEX Retail & Supply Chain Award 2019: Best Master’s Thesis, Europe

RELEX Solutions

Kai Förstl from the German Graduate School of Management & Law, Professor Jan Holmström from Aalto University, RELEX Solutions Co-founder and CMO Johanna Småros, Solutions Chairman of the Board Andrew Blatherwick and leading logistics and supply chain scientists from RELEX Solutions. Previous winners. 2016 Aleksandra Koro?

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New download: SCM Map Europe 2014-2015

Supply Chain Movement

But the world of logistics has not changed radically compared with last year,” says Patrick Haex from Buck Consultants. Opel will cease car production in Bochum, Germany, at the end of this year, and the threat of closure looms for the Peugeot-Citroën factory in the French city of Rennes too. “We Slight shift in European networks.

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3 Uses of IoT Tech Spurring Sustainability in Supply Chains

GlobalTranz

But perhaps the most far-reaching changes will center around the use of large data systems to drive sustainability in logistics and supply chains. Driverless”, autonomous vehicles are already in use across both the public and private sector, and are set to dramatically transform the logistic industry as they hit the road in greater numbers.

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

France, India, Germany, Mexico and Spain. Coolshop is a Denmark based marketplace and has expanded its presence into Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. is an e-commerce site based in Germany. billion in FY2018 , OTTO represents the biggest ecommerce opportunity in Germany after Amazon.