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Grimaldi Group Launches Direct Service Between Rome, North America

The Grimaldi Group is launching a new direct maritime service between Civitavecchia, 50 kilometers north of Rome, and the North American ports of Baltimore, Md., and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Three Emerging Trends in Life Sciences Supply Chain and Serialization

With the Jan. 1 U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) lot-level traceability deadline now behind us, many pharmaceutical companies are turning their attention to full drug serialization. DSCSA requires that manufacturers mark packages with a product identifier, serial number, lot number, and expiration date by 2017. In that period, highly regulated packaging and distribution processes must be changed; physical equipment must be procured and operationalized; enterprise-wide IT must be implemented; and end-to-end serialization testing with supply chain partners must take place well in advance of the deadline to allow time for any necessary adjustments. Given these multi-faceted complexities, three years is an aggressive implementation time frame.

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Limited Number of Supertankers Affects Oil Sales to Asia

The window to sell Western fuel oil to Asia is starting to close as demand for a limited fleet of supertankers to store cheap crude pushes freight rates to multi-month highs, shipping and trade sources said.

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Specialty Pharmaceuticals Transform Market Structure of Pharmacy Industry, Report Says

The boom in specialty pharmaceuticals is reshaping the pharmacy industry's market structure as 10 companies account for 70 percent of specialty pharmacy revenues, according to Adam J. Fein, CEO of the Drug Channels Institute and author of the study on pharmacy economics and the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Recycling Efforts Fail to Keep Up with Growing Worldwide Demand for Plastics, Report Finds

For more than 50 years, global production of plastic has continued to rise. Some 299 million tons of plastics were produced in 2013, representing a 4 percent increase over 2012. Recovery and recycling, however, remain insufficient, and millions of tons of plastics end up in landfills and oceans each year, according to Gaelle Gourmelon, communications and marketing manager at the Worldwatch Institute.

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Rail Not Likely to Make Greater Use of GPS to Keep Tabs on Carts Soon

Tracking rail carts with GPS and cellular could bring value to the rail sector; however, penetration rates on rail carts are currently very low (globally less than 50,000 in 2014), and growth is not forecasted to be very strong over the next 5 years, or even the next 10, according to ABI Research. Therefore, for the time being at least, it looks like RFID will dominate this sector.

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Mobile Technology Impacts Lives - and Supply Chain - Around the World

Globally, mobile technology has emerged as a primary engine of economic growth, stimulating enormous private-sector spending in both R&D and infrastructure, and profoundly changing daily lives - everywhere.

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Crowley Increases Service on U.S.-Puerto Rico Route

The liner services group of Crowley Maritime Corp. is adding a flat-deck container barge, with capacity for 400 forty-foot equivalent units (FEUs), to its South Atlantic Puerto Rico service.

Omnichannel Business Leads Macy's to Open Larger Fulfillment Center on West Coast

Macy's Inc. plans to relocate its West Sacramento, Calif., direct-to-consumer fulfillment center to a larger facility in a nearby location to support continued sales growth driven by its omnichannel strategy.

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E-commerce Logistics Models Criticized as Unsustainable

The present business models being employed by e-retailers and their shipping partners are becoming increasingly unsustainable, according to a report from Transport Intelligence, a research and analysis firm focusing on the global logistics industry.

Wanting Piece of Air Cargo Market in East Africa/Middle East, Djibouti to Get Two Major Airports

The tiny African nation of Djibouti measures 23,200 square kilometers and is home to about 800,000 people, but within a few years - and with a little help from the Chinese - it expects to have two brand-new airport hubs large enough to handle 100,000 tonnes of cargo and 2 million passengers annually.

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IAG Cargo Launches Cargo Connector Service in San Francisco

IAG Cargo, the merged operations of British Airways World Cargo and Iberia Cargo, has extended its Cargo Connector service to San Francisco, the tenth city in the carrier’s network.

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