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Revolutionizing Freight Forwarding Using Tech with Lionel van der Walt

The Logistics of Logistics

About Lionel van der Walt Lionel van der Walt is currently the Chief Growth Officer at Raft and an industry thought leader on sustainability in supply chain with over 20 years of international executive leadership experience. IATA’s U.S. cargo subsidiary.

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July Transportation Market Overview 2021

Freight Plus

Uber Freight recognizes the importance of managed transportation. The acquisition comes at a time of accelerated transformation in logistics. The demands of a volatile market and the increasing complexity of globalized logistics are clashing with industrial-age transportation technology. Just incredible.

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

BlueYonder

Perhaps these are premature obituaries, but there is no doubt that the China-Africa trade is a significant phenomenon to reckon with and will have global economic implications in the years to come. Any impartial observer will agree that the logistics infrastructure needed to capitalize on this increased trade does not exist.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

At that time, pollution wasn’t mentioned by economics scholars, that’s why pollution caused by industries was not part of economic discussions. After recognizing the importance of pollution within the economic systems, a tax was suggested for environmental pollution caused by industries (EM Ojo). 1995, April 12). 181 part B).

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. Magazine article) as a goliath looking to take on the entrenched "David" shipping industry. One visionary, Malcom McLean , is featured prominently in the industry’s development.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Use of third-party data for transportation lane and drayage times by day/time of week. Tomorrow, I board my long flight from South Africa. Supply Chain Design.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Over 7,000 miles away, vessels that move containers through Egypt’s Suez Canal are waiting for naval escorts or avoiding the passage altogether to take a much longer voyage around South Africa. The post This Week in Logistics News (March 9 – 15) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.