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Global Giants: ICAT Moves the World’s Largest Cargo with Chris Cser

The Logistics of Logistics

Chris Cser and Joe Lynch discuss global giants – ICAT moves the world’s largest cargo. Summary: Global Giants: ICAT Moves the World’s Largest Cargo In this podcast, Chris Cser, Director of Operations at ICAT Logistics, takes us on a journey through the complex world of global logistics. Warehousing, if necessary.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 27 – June 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

Experts say such sites will have to be clustered close to the state’s big ports and warehousing hubs. According to the cargo theft prevention firm CargoNet, reports of theft, fraud, and other kinds of criminal activity in the supply chain rose 41 percent in the first 20 weeks of 2023 compared to last year, reaching 900 incidents.

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The Evolution of Logistics: Connectivity, Data Integration, and Virtual Design

SCMDOJO

Massive amounts of data can be gathered in an instant via IoT or other digital technologies like GPS, RFID, warehouse management systems (WMS), blockchain technology, and more. In highly sensitive sectors like the military or medical logistics, this can help prevent damage and death.

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The Green Corridor: Cures from the Sky! Healthcare Distribution is Driving Itself Into a More Environmentally Friendly Direction

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

UAVs or “drones”, well known in the military world are slowly but surely making life better in the civilian world when speed and security are highly prized. While delivering medicines, food and spare parts, Skyports electric drones by design also eliminate all of the carbon emissions and much of the danger in ship to ship cargo transfers.

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Multimodal 2015 – Advanced Supply Chain Management and Logistics for Cargo Owners

Supply Chain Movement

Exhibitors at Multimodal represent every logistics sector – road, rail, aviation, maritime, warehousing, storage services. Government/Military. It is a firm fixture in shippers’ diaries, whose decision-makers visit to find ways of operating more efficiently and sign contracts with those that can help them achieve their aims.

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New Savi IoT Sensors Reduce Theft and Diversion of Sensitive Cargo While Supplying and Protecting Troops

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As needed goods and equipment were rushed to support the active conflict, 40,000 containers began to stack up in ports and warehouse yards because there wasn’t a system to identify what goods were inside and direct them to the required destination. Many parts and equipment were lost, reordered or discarded as a result.

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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

It used to take two days to get cargo off the docks. Marketing expert Robby Pedraza explains, “During World War II, standard sized shipping containers were developed to ship military cargo to the front lines. Conex containers evolved into modular units that could stack efficiently to store more cargo in one location.”[4].