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Training the Australian Army’s logistics officers – a new LIW series

Logistics in War

Logistics in War has contended with the topic of training, and the preparation of logisticians for a variety of operational and garrison possibilities. Others have been more specific to the challenge of training such as Michael Lane who describes the need for logisticians to be better prepared for the most likely events they will face.

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Customs Training Funding Now Available for UK Freight Industry

Logistics Business Magazine

Director General, Robert Keen (above, speaking in 2017) says: “Whilst we welcome the additional funding, as we did when the first two rounds of funding were announced, we can only keep our fingers crossed that it produces the thousands of additional customs experts that the government agrees will be needed come January 1st 2021.

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The Top 7 Manufacturing Blog Posts from 2017

GlobalTranz

We will feature over the next 5 business days each category's most viewed posts over the course of 2017. These will only contain posts written in 2017. There were approximately 220 blog posts in 2017, and over 360,000 page views on those posts alone. Top Manufacturing Blog Posts for 2017. Share This: Read More.

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Transportation Industry Braces for a Looming Transportation Capacity Crunch Crisis in 2017

GlobalTranz

Now of course, this continues to strengthen the need for a hard look at how we handle the Highway Trust Fund and how we deal with aging infrastructure. Well, basically, because getting freight in a smooth matter is clearly important to helping combat the capacity crunch as it is and of course, moving forward. Wide shoulders.

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Amazon’s Freight (Train) Is Coming

GlobalTranz

Of course, along with that comes a lot of products that need delivering. Amazon announced that it shipped 5 billion items through Prime alone in 2017, and some analysts estimate it will ship over 4 billion packages in 2018. None of this is new news, of course. Amazon currently enjoys about 50% of all US e-commerce business.

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Reforming logistics training: themes, challenges and the quest for the ideal

Logistics in War

A common trend found in the literature of military logistics is the decrying of training and education gaps interspersed within the persuasive arguments for greater military interest in logistics. The Australian Army has worked hard in recent years to improve the quality of its individual training, much as Thorpe desired of the USMC his work.

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Online Learning is Growing Exponentially—And it’s Here to Stay

Logistics Bureau

Whereas online courses and programmes were previously managed as a separate entity, they are now an integral part of most academic systems. Big business from about 2011 onwards started realising the value of adding e-learning to staff training programmes. Online courses are the quickest path for a student to obtain a degree.