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Sustainable Home Delivery: A Conversation with Descartes

Logistics Viewpoints

Last week, I sat down to speak with Chris Jones, Executive Vice President, Industry and Services at Descartes Systems Group about sustainable home delivery. First, why is there so much interest in sustainability and home delivery? Third, are consumers more or less interested in sustainable home delivery?

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The Benefits of Sustainable Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies have many levers to pull to reduce their impact on the environment such as altering the materials used in products, using more sustainable packaging and even reducing business travel. For companies to achieve reductions in carbon footprints, they should look to sustainable investments in their supply chains for the greatest impact.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 6 – 12)

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And now on to this week’s logistics news. The Multimodal Dry Canal project will use existing roads, railways, port facilities, airports and duty-free zones in a new “special customs jurisdiction,” said Rodolfo Samuda, director of logistics at the ministry of the presidency. The center will employ 1,500 people. If the U.S.

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Addressing Global Food Security

Enterra Insights

2] With more mouths to feed each and every day, global food security remains a serious challenge. The most important commodities for global food security are grains — wheat, maize, and rice account for over half of all human caloric consumption. Levy adds, “Right now, 325 million people are acutely hungry.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 27 – May 3)

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And now on to this week’s logistics news. Hawaiian Airlines has commenced operating a second Airbus A330-300 cargo jet for Amazon on a new route between New York’s JFK airport and the company’s West Coast air logistics hub in San Bernardino, California, the company reported. That’s all for this week.

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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

Combined with the heightened concerns regarding climate change and associated sustainability impacts, all businesses should consider and assess these changes using the lens of environmental sustainability. Emerging technologies play a role in managing disruption and are driving change in the transportation and logistics industries.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

Earlier this morning I was thinking about something different, yet interesting to discuss in the intro paragraph of this week in logistics news. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Then it occurred to me, why not talk about what I want to discuss? So I will. I will use this paragraph as an inquiry for my own selfish interests.