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4 Ways to Lift Manufacturing Productivity: The MFP Approach

Unleashed

To put that another way: by the time a business in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan or the United States gets to Thursday they have produced, on average, what the UK needs a full Monday-Friday to do. The issue is also particularly bad for manufacturers. For many manufacturers, automation is synonymous with new equipment.

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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

Late 2021 saw Maersk continue to shift towards vertical integrations, with acquisition of Senator, a German freight forwarder for $644 million dollars. While Facebook is looking at virtual reality, Alibaba and Amazon are looking more at freight. More on Maersk’s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

But one source mentioned the unlucky nature of the number “13” is a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party in Valhalla. In France, Friday 13th might have been associated with misfortune as early as the first half of the 19th century. Maersk joins FedEx Corp., Kodiak, Aurora Innovation Inc.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

The reality is that the Smiley Company, which is celebrating its 50 th birthday this year, created smiley as a symbol for good news in the newspaper France Soir in 1972. And new data suggests Mexican suppliers are gaining ground as manufacturers reset their supply chains amid growing global disruptions.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Full-to-bursting warehouses means fewer orders for manufacturers, which translates into lower levels of business activity and, ultimately, weaker growth. The Port of Kahului is fully operational, and interisland freight and transport company Young Brothers noted in an Aug. That’s all for this week.

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Doing Business in Poland

QAD

Manufacturing in Poland. Poland’s manufacturing centers around machinery, iron and steel, coal mining, chemicals, shipbuilding, food processing, glass, beverages and textiles. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. France, Italy and the Netherlands. Poland is the sixth-largest economy in the EU. billion in 2017.

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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

Freightos

Not even B2B is spared from these changing expectations (which is why we at Freightos launched an online freight marketplace ). While freight industry executives likely sighed with relief when an update of Amazon’s logistics.amazon.com page on June 28th turned out to be nothing more than a franchise model for courier delivery services.