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Shipping is still lost at sea when it comes to big data

DELMIA Quintiq

The world of container shipping is going through a prolonged period of instability due to oversupply of new ships entering service. Falling container shipping rates created a windfall for shippers and brought tears to shipping lines and ports. As in retail, shipping faces imbalance between supply and demand.

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Agriculture in the City

Enterra Insights

”[2] To be fair, the USDA does offer a downloadable “ Urban Farm Business Plan Handbook ” and an “ Urban Agriculture ToolKit “ Why urban agriculture? Each container — the kind commonly seen on trains, trucks or ships — costs $85,000, not including shipping.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 10-14, 2017)

Talking Logistics

CX North America Releases Freight Vision Mobile App. DAT Freight Index: June Caps Off Hot Stretch for Spot TL Freight. Two judges smack down notorious patent holder “Shipping and Transit” in one week (Ars Technica). Maybe their supplier relationship management handbook was written by Fidel Castro? Nothing at all.

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Experts Choice Of Top Online Logistics Resources

Freightos

Shipping Gazette Daily News. One of the most comprehensive daily summaries, and by far the leading Asian-based summary, China’s Shipping Gazette provides daily information about carriers, forwarders and technology. Since 1974 with industry-leading expertise in, well, American shipping. Ocean freight is split into 14!

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Collaborative Logistics’ Role in the Emergence of the Physical Internet

Material Handling & Logistics

It may seem impossible today, but the physical Internet could be embedded into freight supply chains by 2050. Many already believe that freight exchange platforms, dedicated to maximizing payload efficiency and reducing empty miles, have a role to play in making this vision a reality. Will the industry embrace such change?

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Carbon Emissions in Logistics: The Road To Green International Freight

Freightos

Carbon Emissions in Logistics: The Road To Green International Freight. Two major emitting industries, international freight and aviation, had been exempted from COP21 on a technicality. And that situation might have suited some of the industry’s old brigade, who see green freight as a distraction. Well, not completely alone.