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The Growing Skills Gap & How Vocational Training Can Help to Shrink It

GlobalTranz

More manufacturers are turning toward vocational training and apprenticeship programs to help close the skills gap. However, some manufacturers will continue to avoid vocational programs in the interim, but they should consider the following ways vocational training will be a major player in addressing the growing skills gap. .

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Decision-forcing cases for logistics: practicing logisticians to overcome ‘wicked problems’

Logistics in War

note: on occasion, LIW examines the art of training and educating logisticians. LIW is privileged to have Dr Bruce Gudmundson, USMC University, discuss a teaching method very relevant to training leaders in ways to overcome ‘wicked problems’ in war. A military logistician is a study in contrasts.

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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

Freightos

Why this book rocks: Before you read this, you may not understand how a simple box that can be loaded off a ship and onto a truck or train literally changes the way the world operates. Read this if you’re interested in: A great case study of a growing company that thrived on global imports and more efficient internal processes.

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Shipping Efficiently Through the Port of Prince Rupert

Triskele Logistics

The Port of Prince Rupert’s Fairview Terminal started handling container shipping in 2007 and has since grown to be in the top twenty in container volume in North America. This causes congestion both for truck traffic, people traffic and train traffic.

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Mosca Supports Humanitarian School Project in Ethiopia

Logistics Business Magazine

A 2013 study shows that in Nedjo, about 500 km from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, around six in ten second-graders cannot read a word of their native language. They train teachers and volunteer assistants, many from students’ families, in the disciplines of pedagogy and didactics.

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IMO 2020 is coming: Why and How to Reduce CO2 Emissions in the Logistics Sector

Forto

1,000 million tonnes annually between 2007 and 2012 (corresponding to 3.1% Contrary to the fact that the three major ship classes, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation study , accounted for 55% of the total shipping emissions: container ships (23%), bulk carriers (19%), and oil tankers (13%).

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

As bribery is one of the more common forms of unethical or even fraudulent procurement practices, it is worth examining a case study to understand how it typically takes place, but more importantly, how the consequences of what to some may simply be seen as ‘greasing the wheels of business’ are increasing in seriousness. This is true.