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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

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Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said it was essential to prevent Tokyo, where the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant was spreading, from becoming the source of another wave of infections. Amazon plans to build delivery robot tech in Finland. It will be interesting to watch the games unfold in silence. Descartes acquires GreenMile.

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Ukraine and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

” A final consideration for the global supply chain is how sanctions will affect corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies. The real objective is the Finlandization of Georgia. … ” The agricultural sector will also be impacted by the conflict.

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Frictionless P2P: A Dream or Reality? 

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Author: Hubert Verweij , Head of Procurement Transformation, Capgemini Invent Sweden and Finland. Procurement policy as a strong instrument to execute your P2P strategy . Policies are often seen as administrative documents with no added value. More important is how communication about policies is structured and executed.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

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The pressure to be more sustainable also comes from outside sources like governments, banks and customers. Now it is becoming a regulatory policy around the world. And elsewhere in California they have a policy on the embodied carbon present in steel from extraction to production. People want their investments to be cleaner.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

US initiates trade fight with Mexico over energy policy. The two new prototypes are both based on the Hummingbird, which Wing says can carry about 2 pounds and has made hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Dallas suburbs, Virginia, Australia, and Finland. FedEx Express introduces new routes between Asia and Europe.

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Ukraine Conflict Now Tops the List of Supply Chain Risks

Enterra Insights

Hot risk factors today include data security, logistics disruptions and trade policy uncertainty. Wise Ukrainian leaders would then opt for a policy of reconciliation between the various parts of their country. Internationally, they should pursue a posture comparable to that of Finland. Are we fooling ourselves?

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Freeports: The 2022 Guide

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London policy makers conceived the idea of freeports as a means of extending Britain’s commercial empire and to ruin the rival Dutch trade economy. The country is a founding member of the World Trade Organisation and pursues a free trade policy that does not charge customs tariffs. At the heart of this is its port.