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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Evans Chebet of Kenya won the men’s division with a time of 2:05:54, for an average pace of 4.8 Helen Obiri of Kenya won the women’s division with a time of 2:21:38. And now for this week’s logistics news: Walmart Adds Truck Powered by Compressed Natural Gas to its Transportation Fleet CMA CGM offers $5.5

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the professional women’s division, Peres Jepchirchir of Kenya and Ababel Yeshaneh of Ethiopia dropped the majority of the pack during a record-setting 11-mile stretch from mile 6-16. And what a race it was. Hasbro said it would raise prices mid-year and that it was taking steps to mitigate some of the expected supply issues.

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The Rise of China-Africa Trade: Why Transportation and Logistics Should be Front and Center

BlueYonder

The trade imbalance this causes is an interesting case study for the economists no doubt, but what about the transportation and logistics that will be needed to sustain this trade over the coming years? It is very costly and difficult to get transport flowing within African countries, not to mention across the borders.

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Commerical Air Cancellations Quarantine Ebola Supplies

MIT Supply Chain

UPS collected the pallets on August 18 for Air Freight Consolidated service. Normally this means airport-to-airport delivery within three to five days with UPS acting as a “freight forwarder” to transport the goods using space available on commercial (passenger) airlines or dedicated cargo flights to the destination.

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The Need For Supply Chain Innovation: Why You Should Watch These Four Trends ?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Transport markets tend towards consolation, which we have observed with the container liners and the emergence of new business models brought about for example by platform aggregators. Entire markets are being redefined by the opposing forces of fragmentation and consolidation, with industry boundaries getting blurred. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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In the crosshairs: Real-time logistics visibility

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Freight monitoring accounted for more than half of the USD 116bn spent on transportation digitization in 2019, and the segment remained one of the top-5 use cases in 2020, according to IDC. a) covering more modes of transport and use cases, b) increasing the geographical footprint, and c) enhancing analytics capabilities.

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Project cargo complexities simplified

20Cube Logistics

The most important job of a freight forwarding company is to deliver the consignment on the agreed date. It’s a special and complex freight and need to have proper planning as it may require multi-mode, changing infrastructure, special handling equipment and other precautionary measures.

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