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This Week in Logistics News (April 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

Staten Island workers could challenge the company’s current labor model, which is the backbone of its Prime two-day shipping promise. In a statement, the company announced it will meet the goal by the end of this year instead. Israel Aircraft Industries is remodeling older Air Canada passenger jets to carry heavy freight.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 4-8, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Growing Shipping Alliances Are Straining Major U.S. It has 253 employees and is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Dublin, Ireland; and Brighton, England. Industrial Scale 3D Printing Operation on UPS Supply Chain Solutions Campus. XPO Logistics Announces First Quarter 2015 Results.

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6 Ways Quality Can Strengthen Supply Chain Profitability

Material Handling & Logistics

To thrive in today’s competitive global business environment, manufacturers must have a top-to-bottom quality-oriented approach that infuses innovative thinking into every part of the supply chain in order to deliver world-class performance through products, processes and people. a manufacturer of aluminum castings for the aerospace industry.

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Freightos is going public…and how we got here

Freightos

World trade is built on a foundation of global shipping. In the two years prior to starting Freightos, I witnessed, as CEO of a company called Lightech, how international shipping is offline, opaque and inefficient, adding cost and uncertainty to cross-border trade. Hagag Towers, North Tower, Floor 24, Haarba 28, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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24 supply chain experts & business leaders reveal the #1 challenge of supply chain management (and how to solve it)

6 River Systems

“I predict we will see a greater adoption of automated tools assisting, rather than replacing, humans in specific roles within our supply chains: warehouse, manufacturing and distribution.” This both reduces the risk of error and improves speed to create a smoother shipping process.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

West coast ports race to clear ship backlog by August. Over the last few months, the number of ships that have been anchored outside of ports has slowly decreased. The goal is to have few, if any, ships needing to wait by June 1, ensuring that the ports are ready for the August import crunch. days, compared with 6.6

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This Week in Logistics News (October 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

Moller-Maersk A/S , the maritime shipping giant that has been diversifying into land transportation, is betting that driverless trucks will help make deliveries more reliable. Maersk is experimenting with driverless trucks at its shipping yard in Carson, California, and has partnered with Kodiak Robotics Inc.