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Logistics gets on a sustainable track

GreenBiz

Moving target: A truckload of technologies, partnerships and global agreements comprise new solutions for the space

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Industrial Processes & Wireless Communications – Part II: Manufacturing Logistics

Cisco CSR

This blog is the second in a series, bringing a lens on manufacturing logistics, dissecting the application flow and a little detail on why the serving wireless medium must behave in a particular way to support it. 2) Manufacturing logistics. Manufacturing Logistics.

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Making reverse logistics circular requires forward thinking

GreenBiz

Making reverse logistics circular requires forward thinking. How can companies across the B2B value chain accelerate a shift to a more circular approach to reverse logistics? . They have a third-party logistics company that takes the new equipment out," Herb said. "At

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Startup funding in logistics: Focused investment in a growing industry

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Funding for logistics startups almost doubled in 2021—here’s where investors are focusing. Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure

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Navigating the current disruption in containerized logistics

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Container freight rates will remain elevated throughout most of 2022 while the containerized logistics disruption persists. Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure

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Why Global Delivery and Logistics Fleets Are Electrifying Now

GreenBiz

Why Global Delivery and Logistics Fleets Are Electrifying Now. Date/Time: June 29, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT).

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Logistics Disruptors: Flexe’s Karl Siebrecht on battling uncertainty with flexible logistics

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Flexe’s CEO explains how the logistics provider uses technology to create flexible warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution to help companies meet the ongoing demand for logistics solutions. Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Logistic providers

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Australian Renewable Energy Agency - Depot of the future delivers Australia's largest electric vehicle logistics fleet

Global Renewable News

One of Australia's busiest logistics. EV/Storage

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E-commerce is entering a new phase in Southeast Asia. Are logistics players prepared?

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Changing consumer and merchant habits are creating opportunities for logistics companies—if they can cater to new needs and meet more exacting standards. Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure E-commerce Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Southeast Asia

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Logistics disruptors: A shared digital platform for US–Mexico logistics

McKinsey Sustainabilty

The inaugural installment of the Logistics Disruptors series spotlights Nuvocargo founder Deepak Chhugani, whose digital platform syncs up the disparate fragments of the US–Mexico trade route. Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Logistic providers Post & parcel services North America

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Innovative technology emerges to support offshore wind siting, logistics

Utiliity Dive

As the offshore wind industry races to meet the federal goal of deploying 30 GW by 2030, companies are capitalizing on a need for logistical and manufacturing solutions

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Return to Sender: Navigating Reverse Logistics

GreenBiz

Return to Sender: Navigating Reverse Logistics. How can companies establish efficient reverse logistics to reclaim products and enable more circular outcomes?

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Logistics Disruptors: GreyOrange’s Deborah Surrette on robotizing warehouse fulfillment

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Logistic providersGreyOrange automates warehouses for major retailers. How does it ease its clients into the world of autonomous robotics?

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By sea, land and air: Decarbonizing transportation and logistics

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Heightened visibility of the global supply chain creates opportunity — and demand — for transformative solutions to mitigate environmental impacts

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Logistics leaders suggest quickest routes for decarbonizing shipping

GreenBiz

Shipping & Logistics Transportation & Mobility VERGE 19Customer advocacy, creative partnerships are helping companies such as UPS and Maersk make their way around detours.

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Five things to know about the Chinese logistics market heading into 2022

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Insights to guide decision making for private-equity players, logistics companies, and shippers worldwide. Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Logistic providers China

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Logistics Disruptors: Motive’s Shoaib Makani on AI and automation

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Logistic providersMotive has expanded beyond its roots in trucking to serve a panoply of industries. How does it use AI-driven automation to solve problems ranging from driver safety to building security?

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How to reduce carbon emissions from trucking and logistics ?

Energy Central

Trucking and logistics play a critical role in the global economy, but they also contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing carbon emissions from trucking and logistics can be achieved through a combination of several methods

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Cactos - Smart energy storage system provider Cactos signs deal worth over 1 million with leading Finnish logistics company Logitri to optimise its carbon-neutral logistics operations

Global Renewable News

20 Cactos One smart energy storage units will. EV/Storage

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Echo Global Logistics Offers Cargo Insurance to Improve Supply Chain Management

Environment + Energy Leader

Echo Global Logistics, Inc., The post Echo Global Logistics Offers Cargo Insurance to Improve Supply Chain Management appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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For Sustainable Urban Logistics, Data Makes All the Difference

Impakter

For Sustainable Urban Logistics, Data Makes All the Difference. Ordering products from restaurants, grocery stores, or online shops is certainly convenient for the customer – but it poses significant challenges for cities trying to lower greenhouse gas emissions from last-mile urban logistics.

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Logistics disruptors: Replicating Uber’s success in the trucking industry

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Logistic providersThere’s a 30 percent chance the truck next to you on the highway is empty—a sign of inefficiency in an aging industry. Uber Freight’s Lior Ron is on a quest to change that.

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Small companies can make a big difference in reducing emissions for last-mile logistics

Environmental News Bits

The logistics sector impacts nearly every other business and industry, by means of supplying essential goods, transporting raw materials, storing goods, and providing last-mile delivery. … Continue reading Small companies can make a big difference in reducing emissions for last-mile logistics. Corporate sustainability Shipping/Logistics Supply chain TransportationRead the full story in the American Journal of Transportation.

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A Sustainable Logistics Solution Reducing CO2 Emissions Along the Supply Chain

Environment + Energy Leader

The post A Sustainable Logistics Solution Reducing CO2 Emissions Along the Supply Chain appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. DHL Global Forwarding and Grundfos establish partnership to reduce CO2 emissions along the supply chain, highlighting their commitment to sustainability.

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Logistics disruptors: Flexport’s Sanne Manders on being customer obsessed and thinking differently

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Logistic providersFounded in 2013, Flexport rose to become the sixth-largest freight forwarder in the transpacific region in less than a decade.

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Logistics leaders suggest quickest routes for decarbonizing shipping and shipping

GreenBiz

Shipping & Logistics Transportation & Mobility VERGE 19Customer advocacy, creative partnerships are helping companies such as UPS and Maersk make their way around detours.

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Logistics Disruptors: Plus CEO David Liu on why AI should take the wheel in the trucking industry

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Logistic providers Artificial IntelligenceDavid Liu on Plus’s road map to roll out autonomous trucks and the roadblocks that stand in their way.

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Tesla revamps EV production schedule to ease logistics strains in its delivery network, Elon Musk says

Utiliity Dive

The EV maker is transitioning to a more evenly spread schedule throughout the quarter to avoid logistics capacity strains

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Logistics gets on a sustainable track

Environmental News Bits

And, alongside both, the trucks and trains that move … Continue reading Logistics gets on a sustainable track. Read the full story from GreenBiz. Moving goods from Point A to Point B has long been a polluting process, thanks to the dirty petroleum-based “bunker fuel” used to power most oceangoing vessels, the energy- and carbon-intensive world of aviation and other legacy fuels and technologies.

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FedEx Logistics Announces $100,000 Scholarship Endowment to Mississippi Valley State University

3BL Media

March 2, 2022 /3BL Media/– FedEx Logistics, Inc., FedEx Logistics currently operates an office on the campus of MVSU, which employs students, building a pipeline of talent to support customs brokerage operations. About FedEx Logistics.

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McDonald’s Covers 100% of US Logistics Supply Chain Electricity Load with Renewable Energy

ESG Today

McDonald’s and the members of its North American Logistics Council announced that they have signed virtual power purchase agreements (VPPA) sufficient to cover 100% of the restaurant giant’s U.S. logistics supply chain’s electricity load with renewable electricity.

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This Texas port city is a big fan of wind logistics

GreenBiz

The U.S. appetite for renewable energy is creating opportunity across the Lone Star state in places such as Brownsville, Houston, Corpus Christi and Galveston. Energy & Climate Power Points Wind Power

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Net zero logistics is in the pipeline?

Envirotec Magazine

trillion global logistics market. “Zero-emission parcel delivery system” developer Magway launched another round of fund-raising in late February. The approach uses electric-powered linear motor and control technology to carry freight at speed via pipes using magnetic waves.

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DHL Develops 400,000 Square Meter Carbon Neutral Logistics Warehouse Portfolio

ESG Today

DHL Supply Chain, a division of logistics and shipping giant Deutsche Post DHL Group, announced today the development of a 400,000 sqm carbon neutral warehouse portfolio, aimed at supporting customer growth needs and sustainability demands in key European markets.

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How to Reduce Carbon Emissions from Trucking and Logistics

B the Change

4 Tips for Successful Collaborations with Transportation and Logistics Providers By Will Diebel Transportation and Logistics (T&L) is an essential part of many companies’ operations — and a big contributor to carbon emissions.

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ENGIE - ENGIE, CEVA Logistics and SANEF launch an alliance to decarbonize road freight transport

Global Renewable News

Three major groups are joining forces to. EV/Storage

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XPO Logistics Carbon Offset Program Aims to Lower Trucking Industry Emissions

Environment + Energy Leader

The post XPO Logistics Carbon Offset Program Aims to Lower Trucking Industry Emissions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. A carbon offset program aims to reduce emissions in road freight shipping.

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Logistics Company Brambles Commits to The Circular Economy, Saying It Is An Imperative

Environment + Energy Leader

The post Logistics Company Brambles Commits to The Circular Economy, Saying It Is An Imperative appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Brambles' goal is to be net zero across its entire value chain by 2040, and it will not send its waste to landfills by 2025.

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PVH presents CONNECT a real time logistics tracking application

Alternative Energy Mag

• In 2022 PVH has been consolidated as the leading manufacturer and supplier of solar trackers and structures in Europe, Middle East and Australia. CONNECT allows the user to track in real time the goods shipped for each project

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Technology, logistics make food-scrap composting in Wisconsin a challenge

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Wisconsin Watch. The University of Wisconsin and the city of Madison have struggled to turn tons of cast-off food into soil. Three Madison companies fill some of the gap. Composting Food waste

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Moody’s Expands ESG Credit Impact Scores to Cover Healthcare, Agriculture, Transport & Logistics Companies

ESG Today

Credit ratings, research, and risk analysis provider Moody’s Investors Service announced that it has expanded its ESG profile and credit impact scores to new sectors including Healthcare Services, Protein & Agriculture, and Surface Transportation & Logistics.

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Infrastructure technologies: Challenges and solutions for smart mobility in urban areas

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Insights on Travel, Logistics & Infrastructure Travel, Logistics & InfrastructureSmart mobility solutions can transform city living and improve quality of life—but are difficult to implement at scale. A collaborative, ecosystem approach could be the way ahead.

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As reusable takeout container systems expand, logistics questions abound

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Waste Dive. The pandemic threw startups for a loop, but many are still seeing strong demand. Now, companies and restaurants may have to balance brand identity with uniformity. Food service and restaurants Packaging