Logistics
Launched in response to the logistics challenges associated with Hurricane Katrina in October 2005, The American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) is marking 20 years of helping humanitarian organizations get relief supplies stored, transported and delivered to disaster sites more quickly – and free of charge.
“In October 2005, 50 supply chain associations and business leaders began looking for a way to leverage our industry’s core competencies to serve others, because they ...
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Global freight forwarder and logistics provider U-Freight Group (UFL) said it strengthening its presence in the pharmaceutical and medical logistics sector through a deepened strategic partnership and a major new contract in China.
A year after signing a strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai Hongyu Supply Chain ...
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The Port of New Orleans, or Port NOLA said its Louisiana International Terminal project became the first new project in the U.S. and Louisiana to register with the Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Framework project.
Port NOLA said it registered LIT with the globally recognized framework to standardize ...
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The Port of Long Beach said softening consumer demand and rising prices driven by shifting trade policies led to a 3.9 percent decline in cargo containers in September.
Dockworkers and terminal operators moved 797,537 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo containers last month. Imports decreased 6.9 ...
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U.S. consumers plan to spend US$890.49 per person on average this year on holiday gifts, food, decorations and other seasonal items, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual consumer survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics.
The amount is the second-highest in the survey’s 23-year history ...
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Port NOLA recently released the most recent environmental studies related to the Louisiana International Terminal (LIT), located in Violet, Louisiana.
Currently, the project is undergoing the federal permitting process with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), with permits anticipated early next year. Once final permits ...
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The International Maritime Organization (IMO) adjourned the extraordinary session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) on Oct. 17 to consider the adoption of draft amendments to MARPOL Annex VI, including the IMO Net-Zero Framework.
The extraordinary session, which convened Oct. 14, will be reconvened in ...
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Global logistics provider GEODIS said Oct. 20 that it has launched a Labor Management System (LMS) within its Americas network to bring real-time visibility into workforce effectiveness and cost to serve.
Collaborating with Easy Metrics, the cloud-based warehouse performance management platform, GEODIS has begun implementing the ...
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DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of DHL Group, has launched DHL Consolidated Clearance Service for U.S. Imports, a new customs solution tailored to e-commerce and retail businesses.
As U.S. tariff policies evolve and regulatory demands intensify, importers – particularly in fast-moving consumer ...
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C.H. Robinson harkened the arrival of its Agentic Supply Chain: an intelligent ecosystem that continuously thinks, learns, adapts and acts.
The Eden Prairie, Minnesota logistics provider said it is the most advanced form of artificial intelligence in logistics. It understands context, makes decisions in real time ...
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