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How US ports may have contributed to the global lag in container turn around times

Shipping and Freight Resource

Given China’s systemic production cost advantage, which now averages 30% to 35% even when shipping costs are included, ” says a recent article from the Harvard Business Review. According to a recent article from the Wall Street Journal , the ILWU has “ rejected an offer from port terminal operators to delay negotiations until 2023.

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Logistics and autonomous systems – the promise of transformed logistics

Logistics in War

This article survey automation in logistics and highlight areas of promise for military logistics. A following article will discuss a more important topic – instead of autonomy of logistics, this second article will look at the logistics of autonomy. Part two – the logistics of automation – will be posted shortly. [1]

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Trucking Isn’t Going Away Any Time Soon

Blue Grace Logistics

that are used for long hauls, using the Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS), last updated in 2002,” says an article from HBR. Many of the sensationalized articles that are proclaiming the untold job loss at the hands of automation are also exaggerating the actual amount of human truck drivers employed in the United States.

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WMS Selection: What Drives an Investment in a Warehouse Management System? 5 Considerations

GlobalTranz

A 2002 Material Handling and Logistics magazine article cited multiple problems with WMS implementation. Choose a Vendor That Has Learned From Past WMS Providers More than anything else, you must look for a WMS vendor that has learned from the mistakes of past vendors.

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Gap closing between top three most recognizable 3PLs | Full Stories – Caption as the Content | Full

247 Customs Broker

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COVID-19 – South African shipping perspective

Shipping and Freight Resource

The controls are too many to list in this article, but summaries of what has been covered in the various notices appear below, together with access to those notices. The new regulations in terms of the National Disaster Act, 2002 were published on 18 th March.

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Reflections on East Timor by a logistics unit commander – twenty years on

Logistics in War

3] While these deployments were small in comparison to East Timor, most of the problems that arose with INTERFET had surfaced in some way during previous ADF deployments to Somalia (1993) and Bougainville (1997-2002) and there was ample opportunity for an appropriate lessons learned process to be applied.