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This Week in Logistics News (November 25 – December 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

The company is boasting its quickest delivery time yet, saying that packages are being prepared for dispatch within 11 minutes of an order placement at same-day facilities. This allows faster delivery, as delivery stations go from handling 60,000 packages a day to over 110,000 during the holiday season. billion packages in the U.S.,

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The Green Corridor – Logistics’ Role In Preventing The Next Pandemic

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Or how did trinkets made with ivory, whose trade has been globally banned since 1989, find its way to a black market in Thailand? The topic of IWT was not new at DHL and seizures in parcels and packages did occur even before I started the program. So how did an African pangolin end up in a food market in China?

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How To Overcome Supply Chain Disruption

GlobalTranz

Partner with a 3PL can help you find capacity where and when you need it, such as tapping regional parcel carriers and re-thinking packaging strategies. A virus in China disrupts auto manufacturing in Detroit , or a flood in Thailand takes out a cluster of research and production facilities. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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Ecommerce in Thailand – A complete guide to sellers

Vinculum

As big brands are increasingly moving into the Southeast Asian markets, Thailand is fast becoming one of the primary countries of interest. According to a survey conducted by Global Web Index, Thailand boasts of over 50 million internet users, most of them between the ages of 16 to 64 years. Thailand is no exception.

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Global Logistics and Trade Programs: An Update on GSP and C-TPAT

TMC

trade preference program—was established by the Trade Act of 1974 to promote economic development by eliminating duties on thousands of products imported from one of the 129 designated beneficiary countries and territories, including India, Thailand, and Indonesia. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)—the largest and oldest U.S.

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Don’t Fret: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement will not play havoc with the economic development of developing countries

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

In late June of 2015, the Senate passed legislation that gave President Obama the authority to present the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade package to Congress with no amendments or filibusters allowed. Tang, UCLA Anderson School.

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Global Logistics and Trade Programs: An Update on GSP and C-TPAT

TMC

trade preference program—was established by the Trade Act of 1974 to promote economic development by eliminating duties on thousands of products imported from one of the 129 designated beneficiary countries and territories, including India, Thailand, and Indonesia. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)—the largest and oldest U.S.

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