Freight Shipping Industry News

Logistics

• Russia Expects 2023 Trade Volumes with China to Exceed $200B September 29, 2023
  Trade between China and Russia grew substantially during the first seven months of 2023 to $134.1 billion, a 26.5% increase compared to 2022.
• Kayla Watson, Heidi Hoffman Receive Women in Supply Chain Awards September 28, 2023
  Award recipients will be recognized at the Women in Supply Chain Forum held in Atlanta, Georgia on November 14 and November 15.
• Port of LA, Long Beach and Shanghai Planning Trans-Pacific Green Shipping Corridor September 28, 2023
  Under the plan, carrier partners will deploy reduced or zero lifecycle carbon-capable ships on the Trans-Pacific routes starting in 2025.
• Logistics on TV! September 28, 2023
  Logistics appears to be emerging into the world of TV, at least online and on-demand.
• Fairmarkit Launches AI-Powered Automated Procurement Tool September 27, 2023
  The new tool allows procurement teams to create and manage requests for proposals (RFPs) while connecting suppliers with customers.
• U.K. Gets Ready for Flu Pandemic With 100 Million Vaccine Shots Deal September 27, 2023
  Public health experts have criticized rich countries for being too slow to make vaccines available to the developing world during the COVID pandemic.
• Amidst Another Disappointing Peak Season, Manufacturers Increasingly Look to Data September 27, 2023
  Manufacturers can't prepare for everything, but they can prepare to be more agile when the inevitable disruptions occur.
• Navigating to Net-Zero: Procurement's Role in Supplier Emissions September 26, 2023
  Scope 1 and 2 emissions are currently the “elephant in the room” of many boardrooms. The “mouse in the corner,” however, is Scope 3 emissions, or those that are an indirect result of the company’s value chain—and that mouse is growing larger.
• Streamlining the path to SAP® S/4HANA September 26, 2023
  Join OpenText experts at this webinar with Supply Chain Brain to hear best practices and lessons learned from S/4HANA migration, with a special focus on B2B integration.
• Let’s Talk Robots: Four Real-World Use Cases Transforming the Supply Chain September 26, 2023
  Moving products and materials around manually is costly and inefficient. Traditional material handling equipment has limitations as well. Make your employee’s lives easier, your operations more productive and leave the materials movement to flexible, cloud-driven autonomous mobile robots.