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Ensuring the safety of damaged electric vehicles

Logistics Business Magazine

However, if EVs become damaged, safe storage and monitoring by workshops and recovery vehicles is key to prevent further risk. By 2030, it’s estimated that, globally, there will be over 300 million EVs on the road (up from 16.5 million at the end of 2021).

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Decarbonization Efforts in Maritime Transportation are Speeding Up

MTS Logistics

The workshop signaled the Coalition’s call to action is calling for complete decarbonization by 2050, in addition to its action-focused approach. By avoiding moving empty containers, shippers could save up to 30% of pollution cause by cargo ships. The Coalition’s Call to Action.

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New Logistics Park: East Midlands Gateway

Logistics Business Magazine

In alignment with SEGRO’s net-zero 2030 and Maersk’s net-zero 2040 commitments, the unit is being constructed to be net-zero for both embodied and operational carbon. Maersk will occupy a new 685,000 sq ft warehouse, designed specifically for them, which will complete in June 2023.

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‘I’m graduating, my friends are being forced to marry’

World Food Programme Logistics

She also leads weekly workshops for other female volunteers. Photo: WFP On 25 November, the UN’s UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women campaign launches its ‘ 16 days of activism against gender-based violence ’.

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Eric Beckwitt Selected as a Keynote Speaker at CleanTech Innovation Showcase in Seattle on June 24th

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For the first time ever, in partnership with the Western Interstate Energy Board, the Showcase will feature a second day innovation workshop dedicated to advancing cooperative energy projects across the west and with the federal government.

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Good Year for Ports of Boulogne and Calais

Logistics Business Magazine

Furthermore, running in parallel with a sustained workload schedule in the Boulogne-sur-Mer workshops, the company is in the process of building the first example of patrol boats intended for the Maritime Gendarmerie in Calais. The second ship to leave the shipyard was dry docked in Calais for finishing work.

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Drones to the rescue as Cyclone Desmond storms Mozambique

World Food Programme Logistics

In these workshops, South-South collaboration is prioritized. In the November 2018 workshop in Mozambique, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) and Madagascar joined the host country to share strategies that have worked and brainstorm new ideas on how to prepare for the cyclones, floods, and earthquakes in the region.