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Why UPS Is Buying 14 More 747s
The rise of express deliveries and the recent U.S. tax reform have led UPS to order another 14 Boeing 747-8 cargo jets, the logistics firm has announced.
Robot Delivery Vans Are Arriving Before Self-Driving Cars
The future of driverless driving looks like a giant toaster with a funny hat.
Funding Questions Abound Over Trump’s Infrastructure Plan
The lack of funding details for President Donald Trump’s plan to spend at least $1.5tr in infrastructure spending leaves uncertain the effort to build and expand roads and bridges nationwide, freight and logistics groups said Wednesday.
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Nobody Thinks About Cargo Insurance — Until $1M Goes Up in Smoke
Challenge: The operations vice president of an oil and pipeline construction company recently admitted there was a time when he wondered if his company’s cargo insurance policy was worth it. The company sources goods from around the world, moves cargo by multiple modes and runs a supply chain through some of the world’s most high-risk countries. Thanks to meticulous packing and some good luck, they'd had very few supply chain incidents over 11 years. Until that summer, a few years back. That June, a truckload of welding equipment heading to Moscow caught fire. The $809,000 shipment was a total loss. One month later, a cargo ship carrying two of the company's containers, worth $150,000, caught fire. Those containers were also total losses.
Q&A: What We Have Here Is a Failure to Collaborate
A survey by 3M Company finds a large number of suppliers holding back from engaging in true collaboration with buyers, due to a lack of openness and customer incentives.
Blockchain Could Revolutionize the World of Supply Chain Management
Blockchain, the technology underlying bitcoin, has some challenges to overcome. But the potential applications are so compelling, supply chain managers should quickly learn more about it and begin to conceptualize how it can be applied to their businesses.
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Logistics Will Drive Saudi Arabia's Post-Oil Era
As the Arabian Gulf region aims for a larger role in the global logistics market, which it is estimated will be worth $15.5tr by 2024, Saudi Arabia is upping its own logistics game and becoming a credible competitor to Dubai in the process.
Blockchain: So Much Bigger Than Bitcoin
From voting to healthcare, music to energy production, blockchain may just change the way we run our lives.
0131 Blockchain So Much Bigger
Opinion: End Your Global Supply Chain Paper Chase
Managing complexity has become a priority for modern-day logistics and supply chain leaders. For many enterprises, however, reliance on cumbersome legacy systems keeps them chained to the costly ways of the past.
0131 Opinion End Your Global
Opinion: In the Counterintuitive World of Supply Chain, AI Is a Force for Good
Planners working with complex supply chains will find that artificial intelligence systems will free them for more interesting work — and could even lead to rising in the company ranks.
0130 Opinion Inthe Counter Intuitive
Understanding the Freight Transportation Challenges of Mid-Market Shippers
When it comes to managing freight transportation, mid-market manufacturers and suppliers face a unique set of challenges.
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From Cars to Cows, Here’s Where Nafta Talks Stand on Big Issues
Negotiations to modernize Nafta are in their sixth round with few signs of a breakthrough, even as President Donald Trump continually applies pressure by threatening to withdraw if the U.S. can’t get its way.
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