Global Logistics

Graybar Opening Branches in Three Additional Locations

March 25, 2013

Graybar, a distributor of electrical, communications and data-networking products, as well as a provider of related supply-chain management and logistics services, is expanding operations to three additional locations in the U.S.

Pack on Someone Your Own Size!

March 25, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Hanko Kiessner, chief executive officer of Packsize International LLC, offers a new solution to cutting down on supply-chain waste - tailoring package sizes to fit each individual product being shipped.

Megaship Mania: Who Will Benefit?

March 25, 2013

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

It takes the giant Emma Maersk, which carries the equivalent of nearly 15,000 twenty-foot containers (TEUs), about three and a half miles to come to a dead stop. But there's no stopping the Triple-E, Maersk Line's even larger class of containership, from entering the liner trades over the next three years.

What Does It Take to Run a D.C. Today?

March 25, 2013

Dan Albaum, Senior Director Marketing, Intermec

How to Excel in Vendor Management

March 25, 2013

Jim Barnes, Senior Managing Partner, enVista

PwC Surveys the Supply Chain

March 22, 2013

SupplyChainBrain

Brad Householder and Glen Goldbach, principal and director, respectively, with PwC, report on the results of the consultancy's annual supply-chain survey.

How Bad Would It Be Were Political Strife to Close the Suez Canal?

March 22, 2013

Container Insight Weekly

All eyes are watching the deteriorating political situation in Egypt. The recent civil riots in Port Said were, arguably, too close for comfort for those dependent on the Suez Canal. Although the arterial trade route is unlikely to close, the possibility cannot be ignored.

time:matters Joins With Golden Cargo in Logistics Service for Maritime

March 21, 2013

time:matters GmbH

time:matters GmbH is teaming up with Golden Cargo to offer logistics services to the maritime industry.

Rickmers-Linie Launches Westbound Round-The-World Service

March 21, 2013

Rickmers-Linie

Rickmers-Linie is launching a westbound Round-The-World service, linking Asia, South America and North America.

French Electronics Retailer Uses RFID to Track Pallets Moving from Distribution Centers to Stores

March 21, 2013

RFID Journal

Scarmor, a logistics subsidiary of the French hypermarket chain E.Leclerc, has installed a network of RFID readers that works without middleware at 35 dock doors within two warehouses. The company continues to roll out the technology that will be used to track pallets being moved from distribution centers to roughly 58 E.Leclerc retail sites throughout the French province of Brittany.

Global Logistics

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