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Toyota Logistic Design Competition 2024 open to students worldwide
Participants will focus on improving the circular economy through logistics. This is the third year the Toyota Logistic Design Competition is welcoming students from universities in the United States.

JLL research highlights the supply and demand imbalance for industrial real estate space
The report—entitled “The race for industrial space: Can supply keep up?”—focuses on the challenges that industrial real estate stakeholders are up against, at a time when industrial space availability continues to trend down.

On this episode of Talking Supply Chain Podcast: The state of logistics
On this episode, Anshu Prasad, founder of Leaf Logistics, discusses the state of logistics and logistics software. SCMR’s Editorial Director Bob Trebilcock hosts.

Autonomous vehicles from Einride are coming to GE Appliances
Autonomous vehicles streamline the appliance maker's operations. Instead of tractor trailers a small fleet of pods from Einride are shuttling trailer-load quantities of material between the five manufacturing and assembly facilities on the campus.

Who wouldn’t want a Logistics Legoset for Christmas?
Let's support a customs administrator who is proposing an official Legoset celebrating logistics, transportation and trucking.

JSCM Video: The missing link between transportation and supply chain management
At a time when global supply chains are more complex and uncertain than every, synchromodality has emerged as a new tool to ensure efficient delivery performance

January retail sales start 2021 off strong, reports Commerce and NRF
Commerce reported that January retail sales—at $568.2 billion—were up 5.3% compared to December and were up 7.4% annually, and NRF reported that its calculation of January retail sales, which excludes automobile dealers, gasoline stations, and restaurants, pointed to a 5.9% gain, for the month, on a seasonally-adjusted basis compared to December and were up 10.7% annually on an unadjusted basis.

Startup News: Cloud supply chain provider Stord raises $31 million led by Founders Fund
Stord raises a $31M Series B to build the cloud supply chain

2020: The Year of the Logistician Part 5 of 5
Modern-day superheroes, logisticians have been working tirelessly through the global pandemic to keep the orders fulfilled and the delivery machines running

Panjiva data shows U.S.-bound August shipments up 12.9% annually
Import rebound indicated, with containerized freight handling up 5.9%, to top 2.70 million "TEUs" or twenty-foot equivalent units, for the first time ever, eclipsing previous high set in October 2018.

ISM Services PMI notches third straight month showing expansion
The report’s key indicator—the Services PMI (formerly the Non-Manufacturing PMI)—slipped 1.2%, to 56.9, in August (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth is occurring). This came on the heels of a 1% gain to 58.1, in July and an 11.1% gain, to 57.1, in June, which halted a two-month stretch of declines.

Sonoco ThermoSafe and ACL Airshop team up on handling specific temp-controlled containers
Global agreement addresses handling and repair of Sonoco ThermoSafe’s Pegasus ULD bulk temperature controlled containers used in pharmaceuticals.

Supply Chain Startup: Mercado Lab’s vision? Democratize the Plan, Buy, Move
Texas-based startup platform digitizes import workflow from the PO through final mile delivery

Leading the way forward through COVID – Part 1 of 5
As supply chain professionals, we are called to a responsibility that goes beyond the bottom line. The profession can lead the way through the pandemic.

NFI acquires CAI Logistics
By acquiring CAI Logistics, NFI expands its suite of supply chain services, specifically enhancing its brokerage, intermodal, and global freight forwarding capabilities across North America.


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