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The Dispatch Report + Pilot Updates | Decemeber 2018, Issue No. 9

Shipchain

At Decentralized 2018 in Athens, Greece, several ShipChain team members spoke on a panel including our CTO, Lee Bailey and our VP of Partnerships, Clinton Senkow. And most recently, we attended Data CIO in Dubai, where we won the Business IT Innovation Award. . There, our CEO, John Monarch, led an exciting keynote as well.

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The Dispatch Report + Pilot Updates | December 2018, Issue No. 9

Shipchain

At Decentralized 2018 in Athens, Greece, several ShipChain team members spoke on a panel including our CTO, Lee Bailey and our VP of Partnerships, Clinton Senkow. And most recently, we attended Data CIO in Dubai, where we won the Business IT Innovation Award. . There, our CEO, John Monarch, led an exciting keynote as well.

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Then to Now: 90 Years of Logistics History

3PL Insights

The history of an industry is shaped by the businesses that innovate. That is a long history of innovation and adapting to the exponential growth of the industry. The Beginning: The history of logistics actually begins in ancient Greece and was used to transport military goods during wars.

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China Flexes Its Global Logistics Muscle

Material Handling & Logistics

This is truly a brilliant plan on China’s part,” explains David Gonsalvez, CEO of the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation, which is part of the MIT Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence Network. They are really taking a broad perspective. based company with operations in China can benefit from OBOR.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

First it was the downturn in Southern Europe, followed by the economic crisis in Greece and now the devaluation of the Yuan. For more on this topic, reference my prior blog posts on Learn the Language of Demand and Driving Innovation ). The hits keep on playing. The global economy is slowing, and volatility is rising.

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The Road to Intelligent Automation

Enterra Insights

In fact, it was Homer, the poet, not the cartoon character, who created the term ‘automation’ back in ancient Greece while talking about a self-moving chariot.”[1] This allows for faster, smarter decisions that accelerate innovation.” ” Rung 5. Intelligence.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

Warehouse break-ins, accounting scams, and oil tampering are on the rise in the olive growing regions of Greece, Spain, and Italy. Spanish police have said they recently retrieved 91 tons of stolen olives, and in February, six people were arrested in southern Greece for the theft of eight tons of olive oil.