• Innovation tops priorities for judge at Supply Chain Excellence Award 2020 Jul 16,2020

  Independent consultant Alistair Charatan led the call for supply chain practitioners to celebrate their excellence, as the entry deadline for the 2020 Awards was extended to 31 July.Charatan is currently an independent consultant, focusing on supply chain and operations. He has over 25 years’ ex... [learn more]

• Cabinet Office calls on UK exporters and importers to get Brexit ready Jul 16,2020

  The call, backed by an advertising campaign, comes just days after European Commission warned businesses in the EU of the need for full border customs checks on trade with the UK from January 2021.The Cabinet Office said that the awareness campaign would run alongside the UK’s continued negotiatio... [learn more]

• Greene King awards XPO Logistics contract to build outsourced warehouse network Jul 16,2020

  XPO will provide logistics services from five warehouses distributing to retail pubs and restaurants, including Pub Partner independent licensees and on-trade trade customers.XPO said its sites in Northampton, Tilbury, Avonmouth, and Peterlee, would “compliment” Greene King’s cur... [learn more]

• AJOT’s top 100 container ports Jul 15,2020

  Yesteryear in Boxes.Twenty years ago, the largest container port in the world was the Port of Hong Kong which handled just over 18 million TEUs. In fact, there were only two double digit [in terms of million TEUs] ports in the world - Hong Kong and its city-state rival on the Straits of Malacca, the Port of S... [learn more]

• Railroad technology alliance TRAINS is tackling climate change on the railroads Jul 15,2020

  The flagship for the future railroad technology region of Anhalt is a train. Or to be exact, a “green” railcar that the Dessauer Verkehrs AG (Dessau’s local transport company) plans to test on the route between Dessau and Wörlitz. This technological innovation will be th... [learn more]

• Draft Environmental Study Released on Rail Facility Jul 15,2020

  The U.S. Maritime Administration has released a draft study on environmental impacts of the Pier B On-Dock Rail Support Facility, a Port of Long Beach project.Port officials initiated the process for the report, a Draft Environmental Impact Study, to make the project eligible for federal grant funding. The No... [learn more]