Logistics > Global Logistics | SupplyChainBrain

Global Logistics: Page 195

Are Manufacturers Lagging in Innovation?

Ben Yokell Image 01

ProSight, SmartDrive Partner on Risk Management for Transportation

ProSight Specialty Insurance has partnered with SmartDrive Systems to offer SecureFleet, a complimentary risk-management application developed for ProSight's niche transportation customers.

DB Schenker Expands African Footprint

DB Schenker Logistics is expanding its presence in Africa. Former partner Bochimar Lda. has been integrated into the DB Schenker network, after nine years of a strong and growing partnership.

Forging Sustainable Supply Chains: It's No Easy Task

Without question, creating sustainable global supply chains is a daunting challenge. But the biggest roadblock might be at the retail shelf.

Podcast 34

The Fundamentals of Distributed Order Management

Satish Kumar Image

Now That China Has Torpedoed P3 Alliance, Where Do Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM Go From Here?

China's regulators have blocked the P3 mega-alliance between Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM on the grounds that it infringes the country's competition laws between Asia and Europe, particularly with respect to the lines' combined market share of 46.7 percent. The law enforcers appear to believe that the cost reductions gained by the P3 carriers would either have been offset by this unacceptably high risk of market concentration, or would not have been passed back to shippers satisfactorily. Where to now?

UL Expands Information & Insights Division

UL LLC, the safety consulting and certification company, has expanded its Information & Insights (I&I) services division with the acquisitions of GoodGuide, IDES, Innovadex and The Wercs.

Ensuring On-time Deliveries Key to Online Retailers in India

Online retailers are waking up to the fact that getting logistics right is the key to succeeding in India. While they can do little about the potholed roads and local government restrictions, the ventures are investing and innovating in areas that they can make a difference in.

Woodland Group Expands Into Hong Kong

Essex headquartered freight forwarding outfit the Woodland Group has a twenty-year pedigree when it comes to serving the supply chain needs of the book trade, principally under its former persona as Bookbridge, and the company continues to export more magazines from the UK than any other logistics company.

Australian Logistics Council Supports Reforming Government Body on Infrastructure Improvements

The Australian logistics industry has welcomed moves in the recent federal budget, followed by measures in New South Wales to improve policy and investment performance in infrastructure, after years of irresolute state policy, procrastination and diversion of public funding to other areas.

Legal Govt Regulatory 4 04

Freight Forwarders Continue to Experience Uncertainty in Their Market

A lack of certainty appears to be the case within the freight forwarding market as momentum fails to take hold. In the latest findings, the Stifel Logistics Confidence Index slipped 2.7 points to 55.2. While still above the important 50-level, too many questions remain unanswered – will a strike be averted at the U.S. West Coast ports, what will happen within the sea freight market now that P3 alliance has collapsed? Is economic growth really slowing?

Logistics Industry Isn't Keeping Up with Growth of U.S. Economy, Report Says

Total U.S. business logistics costs in 2013 rose to $1.39tr, a 2.3 percent increase from the previous year, according to the 25th Annual "State of Logistics Report" released by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals and presented by Penske Logistics, at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Logistics as a percent of U.S. gross domestic product declined for the second year in a row, indicating that the logistics sector is not keeping pace with the growth in the overall economy.

Page 195 of 501

Featured Product

Photo: iStock/Anastasiia Yanishevska

How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

Mobile geolocation service for track delivery, cargo shipment and freight transportation. Logistic Import Export business (Elements of this image furnished by NASA)

Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

Franchise business e-commerce online e-marketplace or digital marketing branch expansion for growth or use technology to analyze product consumer data website management plan for sale service concept.

Moving Robots Site-to-Site