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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Evans Chebet of Kenya won the men’s division with a time of 2:05:54, for an average pace of 4.8 Helen Obiri of Kenya won the women’s division with a time of 2:21:38. And now for this week’s logistics news: Walmart Adds Truck Powered by Compressed Natural Gas to its Transportation Fleet CMA CGM offers $5.5

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Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Africa

SCM Research

Herein, the authors focus their discussion on ten selected economies: Algeria, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania.

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The Need For Supply Chain Innovation: Why You Should Watch These Four Trends ?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Transport markets tend towards consolation, which we have observed with the container liners and the emergence of new business models brought about for example by platform aggregators. Market fragmentation and consolidation. Companies have responded by making ambitious voluntary pledges. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

To anticipate and respond to high customer demand, a modern Transportation Management System (TMS) needs to optimize inventory allocation. Deviations that occur during transportation execution are not necessarily approved immediately. Holy See (Vatican City State). Iran, Islamic Republic of. Isle of Man. Kazakhstan. Korea, Republic of.

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The Remarkable Supply Chain of the Coffee Bean

Unleashed

In between this process, the beans go through international transporters, export sellers and retailers like grocery stores, cafes and specialty shops. Coffee retailers Campos Coffee source their beans from Kenya to Columbia to Brazil. Transporting.

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In the crosshairs: Real-time logistics visibility

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Freight monitoring accounted for more than half of the USD 116bn spent on transportation digitization in 2019, and the segment remained one of the top-5 use cases in 2020, according to IDC. a) covering more modes of transport and use cases, b) increasing the geographical footprint, and c) enhancing analytics capabilities.

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The Rise of China-Africa Trade: Why Transportation and Logistics Should be Front and Center

BlueYonder

The trade imbalance this causes is an interesting case study for the economists no doubt, but what about the transportation and logistics that will be needed to sustain this trade over the coming years? It is very costly and difficult to get transport flowing within African countries, not to mention across the borders.

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