Operations and Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Forecasting Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Challenge. PHOTO: KARIM SAHIB/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES. The halt at a key regional trading point is the latest hit to expedited shipping operations that have been buffeted during the pandemic. ?. Trouble viewing this email? View in web browser ›. E-Commerce.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

The number of vessels waiting to cross the Panama Canal has reached 154, and slots for carriers to book passage are being reduced in an effort to manage congestion caused by ongoing drought conditions that have roiled the major shipping gateway since the spring. By location, 546 of the roles were in the US, followed by the UK and France.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

km and borders the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and other countries including the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Whether you choose to ship by rail, water, truck or air, the movement of goods is fast and efficient. . France, China, Netherlands, the U.K.,

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 28, 2021

Freight companies are rejecting one in five contracts to take goods from France to the U.K. as border rules put in place after Brexit added to delays in moving goods across the English Channel.

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QAD

MARCH 12, 2020

Switzerland is east of France and north of Italy, also bordered by Austria, Liechtenstein and Germany. The strength and volatility of the Swiss franc is creating additional challenges, and global competition is exacerbating this effect by increasing costs for raw materials, labor, and energy compared to other regions. France and China.

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E2open

OCTOBER 22, 2018

E2open to Acquire INTTRA, Adding the World’s Leading Ocean Shipping Network and Software Provider, Creating an Integrated Global Supply Chain and Logistics Operating Network. Today, one out of every four ocean containers shipped globally is booked through the INTTRA platform. MONDAY 22 OCTOBER 2018. E2open is changing everything.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2024

A further noteworthy trend pointed out was increased labor unrest occurring in countries like France , the Philippines, South Korea and Indonesia. East and Gulf Coast dockworkers and shipping operators have made little progress in labor contract renewal talks and the existing contract expires at the end of September.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This includes wineries in California, Italy, France, and others. As a result, suppliers cut and shipped trees that normally would have been given another year to grow. And this does not just apply to hops. For wineries, the drought and wildfires have resulted, in some cases, in a fully lost harvest to make wine.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Early in the pandemic, the company organized an airlift of two flights per week to deliver several hundred million masks from China to France. In maritime shipping, CEVA offers our customers alternative fuel options including biofuel, LNG and biomethane for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions connected to their ocean cargo shipment.

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QAD

AUGUST 8, 2019

Bordering countries include Andorra, France, Gibraltar, Portugal and Morocco. Regardless of your need to ship by air, water, road or rail, Spain’s infrastructure can support it, so it’s easy to make decisions that meet both cost and speed criteria. Primary trading partners included France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, the U.K.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Trane ’s Tom France, Vice President, Global Distribution, Logistics and Transportation, recently stressed the need for E2E insight: “Extend visibility as much as you can throughout your supply chain. Data on ocean shipments, for example, is generally available across the globe, due primarily to greater standardization in ocean shipping.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The Clydebank Declaration on green shipping was unveiled Wednesday at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, and signed by 19 nations including the U.S., Japan, France and Germany.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 24, 2024

are primarily driven by private players and insurance driven while in countries like France and Spain the government provides virtually free health services but imposes higher taxation. Therefore, some of these products can be shipped out to destinations with lower minimum shelf life requirements. Countries like U.S.

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QAD

APRIL 20, 2021

This hasn’t happened as evidenced by disruptions from the storms in Texas, new COVID-19 shutdowns in France and the ship that blocked the Suez Canal. Even the most efficient logistics are constrained by distance and the speed of a train, ship, truck or airplane. Information on the other hand can move at the speed of light.

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QAD

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Turkey’s merchant marine boasts 1,234 vessels, including 57 bulk carriers, 54 container ships, 363 general cargo ships, 124 oil tankers and 636 other vessels. Regardless of the shipping mode required, it is easy to move goods to and from Turkey. Turkey also has 24,082 km of paved roads, so transportation by truck is easy.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The continent has been dogged by the ongoing hostilities among Russia and Ukraine, rising tensions and shipping related terrorist activity in the Middle East, and significant manufacturing contraction in Germany , and to some extent in France. Last year at this time, this region was forecasted to grow 1.2 percent this year.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In 2018, global container shipping carrier Maersk and enterprise technology provider IBM announced a joint venture termed TradeLens which was billed as providing more efficient and secure methods for conducting global trade by leveraging blockchain technology. Background. The Announcement.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Shippo raises $20 million to be the Stripe for shipping (Venture Beat). Best Buy launches free shipping during holidays (StarTribune). But before I head out, grab your reading glasses and check out the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: SophiaTX Open Source Platform to Integrate SAP, Blockchain.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Especially when considering the growth and trends within the parcel market: Parcel growth is increasing : Parcel shipping volume is predicted to grow two percent (from five to seven percent) through 2018. In 2015, the United States shipped 11.8 While this figure may seem low – it is predicated on a large base figure.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It was led by London based sustainability investment firm Generation Investment Management, along with the investment arms of two ocean container shipping lines. Moeller Holding , the privately held investment company affiliated with Maersk Line, and France based CMA CGM , now a global carrier in sea, land, air and logistics services.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 29, 2015

At the beginning of 2015 the shoe company Mephisto issued a tender for the implementation of a Warehouse Management system for the production and distribution center in Sarrebourg, France. The project will be led by the French project team.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 29, 2021

France and Germany also extended their support with the supply of emergency medical equipment. France offered 8 oxygen generating plants that could be installed quickly along with 5 liquid oxygen containers, 200 electric syringe pushers, 28 respirators and their consumables. High capacity oxygen tankers were airlifted from UAE.

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QAD

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our customers will now have access to four different machine learning “off the shelf” scenarios ready to be implemented in Accounts Payable, Account Receivable, Shipping and Maintenance. We’re launching this package initially in Spain and France, with more countries to follow.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For a forwarder, refraining from working with Maersk today is expensive because it removes 17% of global shipping capacity. B2C Europe is operationally present in four key European E-commerce countries (Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, and Spain), and has offices in China. Enter Big Tech. But what does this mean for shippers?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The number of small and medium-sized British businesses selling over Amazon’s marketplace soared by more than 25 percent in 2021, faster than in Germany, France, or Italy. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The nationwide vacancy rate for industrial real estate was 3.2 percent in the third quarter, down from 3.8

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Resilinc

JUNE 28, 2022

In Europe, extreme heat has hammered much of the continent since mid-June, breaking records in France. Without that, it’s impossible for managers to assess what suppliers, logistics nodes, and shipping routes are at elevated risk from climate change and initiate risk mitigations.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Belgium is bordered by France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands, and has a robust shipping infrastructure including multiple ports, making it a perfect location for trade both within the EU and with other geographic regions. Germany accounts for 16 percent of Belgium’s exports; France for 14.9 percent, France 9.5

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DELMIA Quintiq

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Every year, tens of thousands of containers carrying goods are shipped back and forth to the UK. Ships sailing to Rotterdam from Britain would no longer be able to pass through the express lane for customs clearance. Therefore, finished cars are shipped back to EU countries.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In Europe most of the real trees are grown in Germany, followed by Denmark, France, Belgium and Great Britain. Given that most of the artificial Christmas trees are made in China, and there are lengthy ocean shipping and receiving delays into the U.S. and over 350 million Christmas trees are growing on these farms at any point in time.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 3, 2023

This includes company and site-level strikes, national strikes (like the Labor Union strikes in France or the worker walkouts at Starbucks in the U.S.), In 2022, Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions, as well as inflation, resulted in port shutdowns, increased shipping costs, and supply chain blockages.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

In other words, if your shipping your own goods, you’re competition. Across twenty additional countries, Amazon’s other centers are predominantly focused on fulfillment and delivery stations while some countries, like Italy, the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Singapore, and Japan also have Prime delivery facilities. Amazon Fulfillment.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 4, 2024

That stated, Germany and France, the two largest manufacturing economies, saw contractions slow, although Germany remains the worst performing manufacturing sector. At the same time, global wide ocean container shipping costs have increased significantly. The HCOB Germany Manufacturing PMI® registered a four month high May value of 45.4

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Talking Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

Just like there is no such thing as free shipping, there is no such thing as free returns. However, Maersk’s leading competitors, German Hapag-Lloyd and France’s CMA CGM, aren’t jumping on the Maersk-IBM bandwagon. This is self-contradictory,” said Jansen at the [Global Liner Shipping Conference].

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Passages, capes, and straits are defined as geographical areas through which international shipping routes must transit. Chokepoints commonly have shallow, constricting depths, which hinder navigation and place restrictions on ship capacity. In 1956, Israel, France, and Britain invaded Egypt as a result.

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Ware2Go

MARCH 30, 2023

Carbon offset programs can be an effective tool for mitigating the environmental impact of ecommerce shipping, but it’s important to find a reputable partner to protect against greenwashing. Carbon Offset Shipping with Pachama Pachama is a technology company on a mission to restore nature to solve climate change.

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Ware2Go

MARCH 29, 2023

Carbon offset programs can be an effective tool for mitigating the environmental impact of ecommerce shipping, but it’s important to find a reputable partner to protect against greenwashing. Carbon Offset Shipping with Pachama Pachama is a technology company on a mission to restore nature to solve climate change.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 25, 2016

As the push towards sustainability in logistics continues, those involved in modern manufacturing and shipping, especially shippers, must understand why this trend is taking place, its potential costs, obstacles, and benefits, and what it means for the future of manufacturing and logistics. Of course, other obstacles will continue to exist.

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