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Rail deal will open new markets for top US container port 

Freight Waves

This efficient supply chain model is a compelling vision for future operations, especially with the potential enhanced efficiency from the merger. You’re reducing paperwork and handoffs, you’re improving digital technology and you’re sailing on a ship getting to Los Angeles to on- dock rail through the Alameda Corridor,” he said.

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Strategic cargo theft is a rapidly growing concern

Freight Waves

New technology, particularly AI, is creating new opportunities for theft. In one example, someone relayed a story to Cornell in which a criminal was pretending to be based in Memphis and using AI to spoof a freight load. The human on the other end of the line says, ‘what’s your favorite barbecue place in Memphis?’

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Trucking Industry Crime Surge: 50 High-Stakes Incidents

Freight Waves

The economic toll of cargo theft alone is estimated at $15–$35 billion annually, disrupting supply chains and inflating costs for businesses and consumers. Colorado’s growing logistics activity and lack of truck stop monitoring enabled this felony theft, likely an inside job exploiting shipment data.

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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

Supply Chain Digest

Fred Smith was the founder of FedEx, Supply Chain Digest Says. Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Gathers Steam

Logistics Viewpoints

The global supply chain is routinely beset by challenges, both large and small, but the past couple of years have delivered a string of significant logistics disruptions that have threatened to upend the tightly choreographed dance of global freight transportation. Regulations may be more of a driver in the future.

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The Empty Container Marketplace with Sean Bardon

The Logistics of Logistics

Using Qualle’s technology, supply chains run more effectively, more efficiently, and less greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere. Sean is a bilingual start-up veteran who’s worked in China with the Beijing Silicon Valley Group, leading the logistical planning of multiple joint ventures.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 25-29, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. Announces the Acquisition of ADS Logistics. FedEx Ground loses new legal round with labor (Logistics Management). Global Demand for Supply Chain Executives Drives Heidrick & Struggles To Tap Expert As Partner. req’d)).