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The Zergratran Story with Byron Bennett

The Logistics of Logistics

Byron is the Founder and CEO of Zergratran , an innovative and sustainable high-capacity transportation company that is building the world’s first tunnel to expedite shipping goods between the North Atlantic and the North Pacific. Zergratran’s first project is Puerto Internacional Las Americas (PILA) in northern Colombia.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Anti-narcotics investigators have uncovered substantial amounts of the disguised drugs in the past two years as smugglers go to ever-more elaborate lengths to get illicit cargoes on board ships. Guffey added that the company is meeting with the agency weekly to ensure a smooth transition before the peak holiday shipping season.

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A True Supply Chain Transformation Requires the Proper Talent

Logistics Viewpoints

In Belcorp’s case they have four factories located in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador. Additionally, traditionally beauty consultants sold products and the company shipped products to the consultants. These apps allow consultant to ship products directly to their customers. That is changing.

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Implementing Integrated Logistics Networks in Developing Markets

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al, 2023 in Indonesia, the archipelagic geography makes transportation between islands costly and time-consuming due to weak port and shipping infrastructure. Example: As presented in the research paper by Rizaldi et. Additionally, workforce resistance to digital transformation slows down the adoption of efficient logistics solutions.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 6-10, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Here are some details from the press release: The solution will help manage and track the paper trail of tens of millions of shipping containers across the world by digitizing the supply chain process from end-to-end to enhance transparency and the highly secure sharing of information among trading partners.

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Doing Business in Brazil

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Brazil is located in Eastern South America and borders the Atlantic Ocean as well as the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. With a total area just slightly smaller than the U.S., Both transportation and communication infrastructures are strong in Brazil.

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It wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day without Logistics

Enterra Insights

Ricaurte notes, “Every February, shoppers depend on farmers in Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica for a universal token of love and affection – fresh cut flowers.” .”[2] All the sparkling wine Fronetics analysts report being purchased for the holiday seems to have been overlooked by the NRF.