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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. The Freightos System is SaaS for freight contract management, automatic price quotations, and business intelligence. McLean purchases a steamship and a railroad terminal company. Costs fall and service improves.

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SCRC Meeting – Tom Linton’s “Supply Chain Eight” and Golden Winged Warblers : Questions Every New CSCO Should Ask Their CEO

NC State SCRC

As another example, when you buy fish, you convert cash into fish – and put it in the fridge. Buying becomes actions of an offer, acceptance, logistics involves weight, volume, time and cost, and inventory becomes everything we don’t need, so the logal is to minimize it. If you let it sit too long, the fish goes bad.