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Charge Me Up! Energy Storage Development – A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Fossil fuel proponents like to claim that oil and coal are the only “rainy day” energy source out there. BBC reported recently on how this was being applied in Finland for storing wind and solar power in a community using 100 tons of low-grade sand and a giant, silo looking storage building.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said it was essential to prevent Tokyo, where the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant was spreading, from becoming the source of another wave of infections. Amazon plans to build delivery robot tech in Finland. As a result, the Olympics will take place without spectators. Descartes acquires GreenMile.

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Thoughts on Making Money with Bitcoin!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Some people think that he is actually a group of people working together to create Bitcoin, while others believe that he is a computer programmer from Finland named Vili Lehdonvirta. Bitcoin is based on an open-source technology that allows several users to interact with the network throughout the world.

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ABB’s Daniel Helmig: “We are moving to virtual centres of expertise”

Supply Chain Movement

Focusing on the transport & logistics; we are establishing ten Transportation Management Centres (TMC) worldwide that will be located on the Arabic peninsular, China, Singapore, India, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Brazil and the USA.

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The Key Coffee Industry Trends For 2021 & Beyond

Unleashed

Europe is the seat of coffee’s power across the world, although the UK itself only makes up a small portion of this market (compared to the likes of Finland, where consumers drink about four times as much coffee as the UK). Sources used in our figures above: IBIS World, Statista, Mordor Intelligence. Source: Statista.

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Eurozone Economy Now in Technical Recession

Supply Chain Matters

According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , sizable changes to data from Germany, Ireland and Finland prompted the revision. The agency had previously reported in the first quarter GDP had grown in the first quarter, albeit slightly.

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New download: SCM Map Europe 2014-2015

Supply Chain Movement

In this respect, it is notable that the UK and Finland have reduced their corporate tax rate by several percentage points in order to increase their appeal to businesses; Denmark has done so by half a percentage point. Another key consideration when choosing a location are fiscal tax breaks.

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