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Sustainability Matters
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Responsible for transporting around 90% of the world’s trade, international shipping contributes to approximately 10% of global CO 2 emissions. In July 2023, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted a new strategy with enhanced targets to reduce GHG emissions from ships.
Stacey Higginbotham
JANUARY 19, 2023
This week’s show kicks off with a discussion of Apple’s new HomePod , which has some cool machine learning capabilities and new sensors built into it, plus a higher price tag than most smart speakers. The new Apple HomePod will ship on Feb. Image courtesy of Apple.
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Stacey Higginbotham
OCTOBER 28, 2022
It’s estimated that there are 50 million shipping containers and trailers worldwide, and less than 15 percent of them can be tracked. Wiliot orders the creation of 25 million Pixel Tags: Wiliot makes IoT trackers too, but they’re not meant for shipping containers. Think retail price tags, as well as other individual products.
Stacey Higginbotham
JANUARY 27, 2022
Two smart tracking companies raised some funding this week: Pebblebee on the consumer side and newly launched Tag-n-Trac for shipping and logistics. Feeling full from all of this chip ingestion we discuss how Peloton is trying to work out its excess inventory challenge.
GreenBiz
MARCH 3, 2021
The larger commercial vehicles — such as Class 8 trucks — are more difficult to electrify due to a lack of models from manufacturers and a higher price tag than their diesel equivalent. But the company is piloting ways to move these vehicles, too. FedEx Freight has been working with Tesla to use Tesla electric tractor Semis in its operations.
Stacey Higginbotham
MAY 31, 2022
At $14, such a tracker could easily become part of the insurance offered by logistics companies for B2B shipments, and even consumer shipping. Once the item arrives, the tag can be thrown out or partially recycled. Today Moeco’s clients are big companies tracking their own products such as Colgate and DuPont.
Corporate Knights
APRIL 27, 2023
That’s roughly 1,000 six-meter-long shipping containers full of sediment being discharged into the deep every day, spawning from a field of mining sites spread out over an area roughly the size of Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, and Germany.
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