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This Week in Logistics News (May 21 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

Dick’s joins a list of retailers that have recently noted the impacts of inflation on customer purchases, with a shift from discretionary to non-discretionary items being a common theme. Between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.,

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Is The Freight Industry Ready For SOLAS?

Freightos

And those shippers that don’t already will need to purchase weighing products or services, adding cost and time to an industry already under pressure to speedily deliver goods. IMO guidelines need to be broken down at the national level. Ports are obligated to enforce the new SOLAS rules.

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I Will Be Wrong Again: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2017

Talking Logistics

retailer Walmart and Tsinghua University announced a joint effort to track the movement of food products in China using blockchain technology to improve food safety in the world’s second-largest economy”; and just last month, Mahindra and IBM announced they are developing a blockchain solution for supply chain finance. Tompkins said.