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The Ultimate Guide to Contract Logistics: What You Need to Know

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Additionally, its strategic location in proximity to Germany, France, and the UK adds to its appeal. They optimize routes, consolidate shipments, manage freight rates, track shipments, and ensure timely and secure delivery. Financial Stability: Consider the financial stability and reputation of the contract logistics provider.

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

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France and Germany also extended their support with the supply of emergency medical equipment. While Germany offered help in setting up mobile oxygen production plant and provided 80 million K95 masks. Next step was inbound transportation while tackling issues as limited and volatile freight capacity, time pressure and difficult ETAs.

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Doing Business in Belgium

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Belgium is bordered by France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands, and has a robust shipping infrastructure including multiple ports, making it a perfect location for trade both within the EU and with other geographic regions. The seven registered air freight carriers in Belgium carried 1.4 billion metric tons of goods in 2015.

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The World Bank Cares About Logistics

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One key metric of logistics infrastructure involves the cost of logistics as a percent of GDP. In developed countries like Germany and the US, that number is about 8% of GDP. This is due to the high cost of transferring freight, the cost of cars stuck in traffic, and damage and waste of goods in the channel.

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Technology Scores a Goal but Humans Still Control the Game

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For example, during the second-round game between England and Germany in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, a shot from an English player hit the German crossbar, bounced down, and as replays showed, cleared the line by a wide margin. How about soccer balls embedded with sensors to measure key metrics? Will the floodgates now open?

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

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This was not a trivial transition because the software industry, until relatively recently, was long fixated on measuring its health and success by new license revenue (sales of products) instead of customer-centric metrics, such as realization of ROI and payback objectives. Where is Descartes today? Keegan McCready, Sr.

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Why Singles Day Will Become A US Sales Festival

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One popular metric – a country’s logistics costs as a percentage of GDP – has China at 18% and the US at only 8.5%. China’s middle class surpassed the US’s middle class in 2015, and is larger than the combined middle class population of Germany, Spain, UK and France. The Chinese Middle Class Is Huge.