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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Terrorism : The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, coupled with the ongoing instability in Syria and Iraq and the spread of ISIS, have raised the risk for terrorism-related supply chain disruptions in 2016. The Rebirth of Transportation Marketplaces (UberCARGO, Cargomatic, and Freight Friend). What Do Shippers Want?

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Supply chains on film

Supply Chain Movement

Instead, those films merely served as an excuse to feature freight trucks travelling at high speed and the widespread destruction of police cars and houses. He holds up a FedEx package for the Russian employees to see. That’s why every FedEx office has a clock, because we live or we die by the clock.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

10 questions about Freight Spend Management. There are numerous ways a shipper can reduce freight spend. And freight costs are continuing to rise, pushed upward by factors such as globalized distribution and unpredictable fuel prices. This is an important aspect of managing freight spend. Guinea-bissau. Isle of Man.