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National Logistics Day 2024

Enterra Insights

From the origin of logistics — with the first efforts made to transport goods and supplies — to today’s most complex management and distribution systems, logistics has become a pillar of the business world. To put that in context, we employ more people than the population of Denmark, which only has 5.8 million people. 3] They are: 1.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

Maersk would split into two divisions – a Transport & Logistics division, and an energy division. Meanwhile, the golden child – Transport & Logistics – charted three pillars for growth: Product offering and customer experience. Today, 75 to 80% of cargo arrives on time. Efficiency by unifying entities.

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Logistics Responses to Europe’s Migrant Crisis

TMC

So far, we’ve found that the expected fallout in terms of higher transportation prices and operational disruptions has been relatively muted. For example, early in the new year, Denmark tightened its border controls with Germany, after Sweden had imposed similar measures [2]. The service carried some 1.5 migrants) on the trailer.

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The Smart Shipping Container Revolution

GTG Technology Group

Each container has a different barcode, which is scanned upon entering and exiting transport. Transportation management systems (TMS) use this information in combination with cutting-edge software solutions to monitor shipping times, routes, and logistics. Live information feeds significantly improve transportation management.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Major routes also involve the transport of raw commodities, including petroleum, grains, minerals, and food items. billion tons of cargo (as of 2020). They form a continuum.

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Logistics Technology and Startup Roundup: Q1 2016

Freightos

Amazon also made the headlines when its Chinese subsidiary registered as a licensed ocean transportation intermediary. Maersk experimented with using a drone to deliver goods to a container ship in Denmark , in an effort to save costs on barge deliveries. See Freightos’ CEO Zvi Schreiber TechCrunch analysis here.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The first Z – Zero emission road transport: Global MOU for ZE-MHDVs . In 2018, according to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) road transport accounted for three-quarters of transport emissions. Most of this, 45.1