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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. I gotta admit, I’m intrigued. Maybe try Boston next? This is the first of four next-generation FCs announced by Walmart earlier this year.

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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. Our fossil fuel-driven logistics systems have been working the earth hard, and there is just as much need for actions to mitigate the wear and tear that is being done and to ensure our home planet can continue to sustain us. M achines are built to last ! Planet earth is similar.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

The largest backlog is in the super category, vessels that carry 4,000-5,000 twenty-foot equivalent units, because they do not qualify for the authority’s reservation system. The ACP is encouraging all vessels to use the queueing system to reserve a slot. Without a slot, vessels have to wait for the others that have scheduled transit.

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

SCM Research

kg), Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. Practice Closed-Loop System Globalization Report Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Sustainability' The top per capita producers, however, are Norway (28.3 Baldé, C.P., Huisman, J. The Global E-waste Monitor – 2014. United Nations University, IAS – SCYCLE, Bonn, Germany.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Molex has more than 80 manufacturing facilities around the world supported by an 18,000 strong supplier eco-system that provide raw materials, electronic components, and services. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe.

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Supply Chain Agenda of Hildur Gylfadóttir, Supply Chain Manager at Össur

Supply Chain Movement

Its range of prosthetic solutions, from artificial limbs and related products such as mechanical knees and feet and silicone liners to a complete bionic system, are designed to improve people’s mobility and bring a better quality of life to millions of people around the world. What is your responsibility regarding the supply chain? “I

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Trends 2023: Technology

Enterra Insights

Analysts from Gartner call these efforts a “digital immune system.” … Through observation, automation and the latest developments in design, a robust digital immune system can significantly mitigate operational and security risks. . ”[7]. The Metaverse. ” He might have been referring to the metaverse.