Mon.Nov 11, 2024

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Executives Exploring AI Need to Understand Data Fabrics

Logistics Viewpoints

Many global multinationals accelerated their investments in digitizing data during the pandemic. According to Colin Masson, a director of research at ARC Advisory Group, the opportunity to mine these vast quantities of data to achieve business value is “NOW.” Mr. Masson recently wrote the report “ Industrial-grade AI: Transforming Data into Insights and Outcomes.

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How Warehouse Markings Can Enhance a Workplace

Supply Chain Brain

For warehouse management and operations to be effective, you need to look into how warehouse markings can enhance safety, drive efficiency, and keep you organized.

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Toyota To Invest $500 Million in Joby Aviation

Logistics Viewpoints

Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota; NYSE: TM) and Joby Aviation, Inc. (Joby; NYSE:JOBY), a company developing electric air taxis for commercial passenger service, announced that Toyota will invest an additional $500 million to support the certification and commercial production of Joby’s electric air taxi, with the aim of realizing the two companies’ shared vision of air mobility.

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What Supply Chain Managers Can Learn from Healthcare

Supply Chain Brain

The complexity of healthcare supply chains offers valuable lessons for other industries, particularly in risk management, compliance, and adaptability.

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Rethinking warehouse work culture: Can automation create better workplaces?

Heico Sandee, CEO of Smart Robotics, explores how automation redefines warehouse culture. By shifting repetitive tasks to skill-based roles, automation improves safety, fosters collaboration, and makes warehousing more appealing to today’s workforce.

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Hexagon Agility to Integrate Specialty Fleet Services into FleetCare Operation

NGT News

Hexagon Agility, a subsidiary of Hexagon Composites, has acquired the assets of Specialty Fleet Services, a natural gas — compressed (CNG), liquefied (LNG) and renewable (RNG) — mobile service and inspection provider in the United States and Canada. Specialty Fleet Services, based in California, provides maintenance solutions for fleets to minimize truck downtime.

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CARB Updates Low Carbon Fuel Standard, Expands Access to Cleaner Transportation

NGT News

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has approved updates to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) that channel global, national and local private sector investment toward increasing cleaner fuel and transportation options for consumers, accelerating deployment of zero-emission infrastructure, and keeping the state on track to meet legislatively mandated air quality and climate targets.

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Russian Oil Gets Flipped Between Tankers Near Spanish Exclave of Ceuta

Supply Chain Brain

The West has stepped up efforts to crack down on tankers transporting Russian oil.

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The Past, Present, and Future of Technology in the Warehouse

Logistics Bureau

Imagine stepping back in time to visit a large warehousing operation in 1990. If it were only possible, such an adventure would really throw today’s distribution center advances into focus. Now imagine what the distribution center of 2045 will look like if technology continues to disrupt logistics as profoundly as it has done since the 1990s. Is your mind blown yet?

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MSC’s Africa Global Logistics Sees $43 Million Spend in Namibia

Supply Chain Brain

Southern African ports have drawn investment interest due to the export of natural resources including critical minerals.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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London Gateway Launches New all-electric Berth

Logistics Business Magazine

DP World is celebrating the operational launch of the world’s first all-electric berth with the arrival of its first ships, marking a significant milestone at one of the UK’s most sustainable and advanced logistics hubs. The MSC Sena (pictured) was serviced by an innovative all-electric fleet of vehicles and equipment at London Gateway, including four of Europe’s largest quay cranes, straddle carriers, and automatic stacking cranes, establishing a new global benchmark for low-carbon shipping fac

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Canada Port Lockouts Back Trudeau Government Into a Corner Again

Supply Chain Brain

The Montreal offer would have boosted average dockworker compensation to more than C$200,000 per year.

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High Density Parcel Locker Network

Logistics Business Magazine

At the recent Parcel + PostExpo Exhibition in Amsterdam Logistics Business spoke to Gary Winter, VP Global Strategic Initiatives at Parcel Pending by Quadient, about the boom in parcel locker networks in Europe. Logistics Business : With the parcel industry growing, how is Quadient differentiating itself from its competitors? Gary Winter: “Differentiating in the locker industry is quite challenging right now.

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Post-Election (Early) Analysis of Energy Transition, Sustainability Initiatives, and Trade

Logistics Viewpoints

A new administration has been selected after this week’s long-anticipated presidential election has come to an end. Now that the results are in, what does that mean for the many renewable energy and sustainability initiatives that have progressed over the past four years, including the Inflation Reduction Act? Obviously, we don’t really know the answer, but we do know the attitudes of the incoming administration regarding environmental legislation and the support of fossil fuels.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.