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Körber Elevate 2024: Chart Your Course

Logistics Viewpoints

The theme this year was “Chart Your Course” which Richard Stewart, EVP Americas at Körber Supply Chain pointed out, is all about overcoming supply chain complexities and challenges. One of the more interesting capabilities from the Körber OMS solution is the intersection of “Available to Sell” and “Available to Promise.”

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U.S.-bound imports may be on course for new records, reports Port Tracker

Logistics Management

For April, the most recent month for which data is available, import volume came in at 2.15 million TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units), marking a 33.4% annual gain, for its best April reading ever, compared to April 2020, when the majority of stores were closed, due to the pandemic. This came on the heels of March’s 2.27

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£500,000 of funding available to retrain in international trade

Logistics Business Magazine

The Institute of Export & International Trade (IOE&IT) is making £500,000 of funding available to help workers who have been furloughed, made redundant or become unemployed. “We have made £500,000 available to kick start this effort and introduce new people into the jobs market. ” The Courses.

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Covid 19 Recovery to Squeeze Wood Availability

Logistics Business Magazine

During the recent Timber Packaging & Pallet Confederation (TIMCON) AGM concerns were raised regarding the mounting pressure on the availability of wood which is likely to impact prices in the weeks ahead. Timber prices normally stabilise or fall as demand for fencing and construction timber drops in Quarter 4 and availability rises.

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Drive Specialist Nord Guarantees Delivery Availability

Logistics Business Magazine

Drive specialist Nord Drivesystems is promising delivery availability is fully guaranteed for all products. In the present course of the corona pandemic, Nord Drivesystems was able to keep up its delivery availability. The German company also says that investments in locations and logistics continue as planned.

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Customs Training Funding Now Available for UK Freight Industry

Logistics Business Magazine

As one of the country’s largest providers of Customs-related training courses, BIFA decided to replicate almost its entire course range and deliver it via video conferencing, due to the Covid-19 crisis preventing face-to-face training.

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The Free TMS with Tim Higham

The Logistics of Logistics

Tim Higham and Joe Lynch discuss the free TMS, which is of course AscendTMS. The industry-leading AscendTMS system ( www.TheFreeTMS.com ) is the world’s first and only TRULY multi-tenant, cloud-based, patented, and independent TMS system – and is the winner of every available industry technology award for 18 years running.