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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2017, Flytrex successfully launched the world’s first fully autonomous urban drone delivery system in Reykjavik, Iceland, and we covered that initiative in these pages on June 15, 2018. American Shipper reported that indexes measuring container-ship rental rates are now dropping rapidly. I gotta admit, I’m intrigued.

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Carbon Mitigation Actions; For The Planet, And for the Pocket

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Geo thermal Power Station in Iceland. A case in point is Tesla, the electric car manufacturer, which reported carbon credit sales of $518 million in the first quarter of 2021, with the majority of purchases coming from other automakers! M achines are built to last ! Planet earth is similar.

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Do We Really Need a New Smart Phone Every Two Years?

SCM Research

A new United Nations University report, titled The Global E-waste Monitor 2014 , details e-waste generation by region. kg), Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. Practice Closed-Loop System Globalization Report Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Sustainability' Baldé, C.P., Huisman, J.

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Trends 2023: Technology

Enterra Insights

Weiss reports that the McKinsey study (cited above) examined how relevant (i.e., reports that global connectivity is predicted to improve significantly during the coming year. He writes, “McKinsey has reported that economies will realize the benefits of superior connectivity networks in 2023. ” Trend 6.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe. And changes to the ETA are often reported much more quickly by Nexus than by logistics partners. There was no air freight possible then into Europe,” added Gerald van den Eijnden.

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Supply Chain Movement 19 – Software & Leaders

Supply Chain Movement

While R&D remains in Iceland it has operational centers in the Americas, Europe, Asia and it employs around 2,300 people across 18 locations. Hildur Gylfadóttir is Supply Chain Manager, Logistics, based in Iceland with the task of improving efficiencies and helping to drive the successful commercialisation of innovations.

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Reflective Thinking: Complexity

Logility

According to Gartner’s August 10, 2010 report, SKUs are Driving Complexity Into Your Supply Chain and Profitability Out of Your Bottom Line”, supply chain executives often cited item proliferation as a top driver of complexity. Internal risks can range from product quality to the integrity of information.

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