Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 15, 2021

Despite the pandemic, it was a good year for the supply chain group at Körber (Körber rhymes with Gerber, the baby food company). This group had record revenues. Michiel Vienman, Körber’s vice president of industry solutions, gave a very interesting presentation on the strengths and weaknesses of various AMR solutions.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 15, 2015

By identifying the most pressing concerns in the industry, the survey provides statistics and conclusions which the distributors can use to help maintain their business evolution in our technology based world. Consistency has always been at a premium in the distribution industry. In 2005, 73% of distributors were family owned.

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Logistics Manager

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Saadé was the visionary and man behind this launch and now 40 years later CMA CGM is a global leader in the shipping industry, employing over 34,000 people and active in more than 160 countries. The group has an additional goal to reduce C02 emissions by a further 30% by the year 2025.

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Logistics Manager

APRIL 2, 2019

Peter Voser, currently Deputy Chairman, will be taking on the role of Group Chairman of the PSA Board. Mr. Voser will replace Mr. Fock Siew Wah who will step down as Group Chairman on 1 April 2019, and assume the role of Special Advisor to PSA. I would also like to warmly welcome Peter in his new role as Group Chairman.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 5, 2022

The Gebhardt Intralogistics Group , headquartered in Sinsheim, Germany has welcomed two new members to the management team. Gebhardt Intralogistics Group has been on the market for 70 years and is proud of the many years of continuous growth. Volker Nicolai has been appointed the new Managing Director of Sales and Service.

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Transporeon

MARCH 16, 2015

BSH Group, manufacturer of domestic equipment, has strongly improved its transportation tendering and planning processes. Optimized tender processes The first step in the worldwide optimization project was the implementation of Ticontract, the tendering platform of the Transporeon group. Previously this was done manually.

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Penske Move Ahead

JULY 26, 2022

area and started his Penske career as a Tech III in 2005. When I first came on-board with Penske in 2005 the military technicians working there took me under their wings and trained me up. Branch Service Manager, Collin McNeilly has done his fair share of military hiring in the Washington, D.C.

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Logistics Manager

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

French-based container transportation and shipping company and one of the leading shipping groups in the world, CMA CGM proudly announced they were the gracious recipients of the Most Accomplished Asia Pacific Ship Owner Award 2018. The award was presented at the recent Maritime2020 Summit in Singapore.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

APRIL 11, 2020

Under sections 80(1) (g) of the National Ports Act, 2005 (Act No. 12 of 2005) as of 18th March 2020 crew change is prohibited till further notice in all eight commercial ports in South Africa – Durban, Richards Bay, Cape Town, Mossel Bay, Saldanha Bay, Port Elizabeth, Ngqura and East London. Crew Change.

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Logistics Manager

DECEMBER 17, 2018

One of the world’s leading shipping groups, CMA CGM were recently presented with the Environment Award at the prestigious Lloyd’s List Global Awards. The event was held in London UK by the maritime industry’s leading publication. The group has not stopped there as they plan a further reduction of 30% by 2025.

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

For years now, we’ve watched the old guard of the packaged-food industry get pummeled as consumers look to fill their grocery carts with trendier items bearing feel-good labels such as “natural” or “sustainably sourced.”. So we can’t help but wonder: Is the apparel industry next? Earlier this year, Levi Strauss & Co.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ collaborative robot stacks rice balls at Delicious Cook &Co’s food factory in Narashino, Japan, April 17, 2018. In a country known for bringing large-scale industrial robots to the factory floor, such relatively dainty machines have until recently been dismissed as niche and low-margin.

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 7, 2018

He will also promote strategies relating to environmental sustainability and the challenges of future mobility, as part of Seat’s commitment to Industry 4.0 Vollmer has been with the Volkswagen Group since 1999, having started in press planning at the headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany. and digital transformation.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Automated material handling systems reduce—and sometimes eliminate—the need for human intervention in industrial tasks. It’s for this reason that increasing numbers of industrial organizations are electing to automate as a means to minimize manufacturing costs by reducing human involvement. Plain and simple. Reduced Costs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 9, 2022

featuring top-drawer industry experts and moderated by Logistics Business’s News Editor Peter MacLeod. I am convinced that with our focus on innovation and sustainability we are preaching to the logistics industry. They have also supported the sustainability code “fairpflichtet” of the German event industry since 2014.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 29, 2018

The result is that companies must balance the expectations of these groups with the need to make a product that consumers want and are willing to pay for. That is part of an overall vehicle efficiency goal of a 50% reduction (from a 2005 baseline) by 2025. Last-Mile Delivery. In the U.S., Lauderdale.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Author’s Note: The following is an excerpt of what I presented recently in a webinar organized by Descartes Systems Group (a Talking Logistics sponsor) focused on “ Delivery – The Moment of Truth.” If you’ve been in the industry for a while, you probably remember “ the moments of truth ” that former P&G President and CEO A.G.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

This is a public, multinational providing different types of electronic and machinery products for different industries. Not surprisingly a company this big, delivering different solutions to a variety of industries, has a complex supply chain. The company has been on a supply chain transformation journey since 2005.

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Transporeon

APRIL 2, 2019

Shipping industry consolidation is also causing ocean freight rates to rise. Merger and acquisition in the shipping industry reached a historically high in 2016. Maersk acquired Hamburg Sud, CMA CGM acquired APL (NOL Group), China Shipping and Cosco merged, and Hapag-Lloyd is set to merge with United Arab Shipping Company (UASC).

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Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George ( Link ). From an inefficient game of Tetris to global industries that move $19 trillion dollars of goods annually, Malcom McLean changed shipping. Got some suggestions?

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Leading-edge solutions and successful projects were and still are the driver for the strong growth of the Witron Group ,” says Walter Winkler in his welcome speech. “To We realise projects in a system-relevant industry sector,” emphasised Winkler. The entire Witron Group is aware of this responsibility every day.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 28, 2016

The industry image of manufacturing is drastically changing, and the next generation needs to know why and how this is taking place and what's being done to ensure its continued vitality. Path , a 2011 report, initiated by the National Association of Manufacturers, found a qualified worker shortage of 67 percent across the industry.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 18, 2018

As reported in LM last November, PierPass retained the consulting firm The Tioga Group Inc. Daniel Smith, Principal, The Tioga Group, Inc., The industry has been demanding ‘PierPass 2.0,’ and we are responding,” said PierPass President John Cushing. “The and its partner World Class Logistics (WCL) Consulting Inc.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 25, 2015

jobs in local goods and services industries across all income groups, including lawyers, dentists, schoolteachers, cooks and retail clerks. While all occupations have a multiplier effect on growth, it is magnified in high-tech industries where wages are very high. The result? Economic and employment growth.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2015

The erosion in the cost advantage has been driven by a confluence of sharp wage increases, lagging productivity growth, unfavorable currency swings, and a dramatic rise in energy costs, states the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) based on a study of 25 nations that account for nearly 90 percent of global exports of manufactured goods.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2014

We look forward to beefing up even more great content to give value to our customer base of manufacturers and those in the manufacturing industry. Recently Cerasis asked in the Manufacturing Leadership Community group on LinkedIn, run by Manufacturing Executive. But how does it work in industry? Read Full Post. Read Full Post.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

Based in the North West for the majority of their existence, AUT have a large number of employees that have worked for the company for many years, enabling them to grow with the business and enhance the overall knowledge, skills and passion of the group. Ease of transaction and shared success is at the heart of everything AUT does.

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Transporeon

DECEMBER 4, 2016

The consolidation in the shipping industry will mean less competition as each carrier now controls a greater market share with the ability to better price and plan, with potentially rising freight rates as a consequence.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the last year, the UK’s cold storage industry capacity has topped 40 million cubic meters, for the football fans amongst you that is the equivalent to the bowl volume of 35 Wembley Stadiums. Essential action when you consider preventable fires in the UK warehouse industry costs our economy upwards of £230 billion each year.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

By Jeff Berman, Group News Editor ·. Going back to 2005, FedEx has been actively involved in its network expansion initiative geared towards increasing daily package volume capacity, as well as to augment the its network speed and service capabilities. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. September 12, 2018. in a statement.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 27, 2015

Based in Virginia, AMT was founded in 1902 and specializes in providing targeted business assistance, extensive global support, and business intelligence systems and analysis to its members and industry as a whole. According to our USMTO data the 2003 recession really started in 2001 and didn’t really end until 2005 or even 2006.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 31, 2015

It is incredibly gratifying to deliver real, bottom-line value to a big group like that. As much of a rise as I get out of getting to visit with a big group, the REAL fun is sometimes in the very small – dare I say intimate –meetings, usually no more than 2 or 4 people, that take place afterwards. My favorite topics.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

And, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study, 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. Since 2005, U.S. As many as 87% of industrial CEOs view environmental impact of their operations as a major concern, per a PwC report. The food industry reshored 1,628.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 16, 2018

John the Baptist, representatives from the district’s maritime industry, and former board members and employees. Our terminal operating groups throughout the years -Hall Buck Marine, SSA, and Associated Terminals- were also very instrumental in getting river traffic to the terminal and marketing Globalplex for cargo movement.”.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79% of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers Now for those statistics I mentioned.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2022

Mr. Ross was most recently Managing Director and Group Head of Stifel’s Global Transportation & Logistics Equity Research practice. Before joining Stifel in 2005, he was an analyst with Legg Mason Capital Markets, worked briefly in the industry at RailWorks Corp., About David Ross . LTL Future: Pricing. LTL Future: Labor.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 2, 2018

As previously reported, many trucking observers maintain that the need for ELDs is obvious, with most explaining that the industry has been reliant on paper logs for far too long. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management , Modern Materials Handling , and Supply Chain Management Review.

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