Scandit, a developer of barcode scanning software for smartphones, tablets and wearable devices, has introduced a mobile app suite for the transportation and logistics industries.

Governments and businesses should make efforts to reduce supply chain inefficiencies, which among others significantly contributes to loss of as much as 1.3 billion tonnes of food every year, says a report.

The Far East Land Bridge cargo cooperation, whose members aim to revolutionize rail connectivity along the Trans-Siberian route, has witnessed the first container freight train travel from Suzhou, China, to Warsaw, Poland. The 14-day transit resulted from a project among the government of the City of Suzhou in the Jiangsu Province, PKP Cargo (the Polish state railway) and RZD Logistics (part of Russia's rail behemoth).

The appalling state of infrastructure in much of Africa is greatly responsible for the high cost of logistics services on much of the continent.

President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil plans to build 11,000 kilometers (6,835 miles) of rail and grant wider access to existing privately operated lines to cut shipping costs by as much as 30 percent in the country. The auction of a concession to build and manage the first of a dozen railways costing a total $42bn will take place as early as October.

Big data - the practice of analyzing large data sets - is increasingly driving value creation in organizations across all industries.

Sea and inland navigation ports and freight terminals in Europe are faced with growing energy costs and major political and societal pressure in terms of their environmental performance.