Global Logistics

China Grows Belt and Road Business

November 10, 2017

Trade between China and countries along the Belt and Road reached a value of $786bn in the first three quarters of this year, up 15 percent on the same period last year.

Ship Glut Clouds Long-Awaited Recovery

November 9, 2017

The Wall Street Journal

Container shipping is emerging from a painful six-year slump, but a glut of tonnage that will hit the water over the next two years threatens to derail the nascent recovery.

eBook: Turning Home Delivery into a Competitive Advantage

November 8, 2017

Descartes Systems

Why Freight Visibility is Important

November 8, 2017

Descartes Systems

What's at Stake: Cyberattack in the Global Shipping Industry

November 8, 2017

Maritime Executive

The global shipping industry has come of age with more automation, game-changing technologies and the-internet-of-things. But embarking on this voyage has also made it a prime target for unforeseen, invisible, and highly destructive cyberattacks.

Supply Chain Analysis -- Sourcing Optimization Driving Supply Chain Decision Making

November 7, 2017

Armada

Developing Nations Hit by Container Shipping Squeeze

November 6, 2017

Maritime Executive

Seaborne trade grew by 2.6 percent in 2016, to reach 10.3 billion tons, but the pace remained below the historical three percent average, and demand for maritime shipping continued to lag behind supply, a new United Nations report says.

Confidence Outlook for International Air Transport Reaches 10-Year High

November 6, 2017

Air Cargo World

In its most recent quarterly survey of airline business confidence, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) found that 80 percent of airline CFOs and heads of cargo saw an improvement in third-quarter profitability compared with the same quarter of 2016 — making it the strongest outcome IATA has seen in a decade.

NPI Sourcing in the Data Age

November 2, 2017

Supplyframe

Opinion: How Container Shipping Could Reinvent Itself for the Digital Age

November 2, 2017

Steve Saxon and Matt Stone, McKinsey & Company

In 1967, the British Transport Docks Board (BTDB) commissioned McKinsey to assess a recent development from America: container boxes. The first ships built expressly for this new way of shipping goods had recently been launched, and a few U.S. lines carried them on their regular service. Our report advised the BTDB to rethink everything in light of this new disruption.

Global Logistics

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