Pharmaceutical/Biotech

CMA CGM Upgrades French West Indies Service

February 23, 2016

CMA CGM has upgraded its service from Northern Europe to the French West Indies, with the addition of two calls at Zeebrugge and Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

As Perishables Market Grows, Reefer Container Ship Capacity Should Expand Over Next Three Years

February 23, 2016

Maritime Executive

London-based Drewry Shipping Consultants says that the global capacity of reefer container ships is expected to grow by 20 percent over the next three years. Drewry also reports that perishables moved over the seas in 2014 increased by nearly five percent to exceed 100 million metric tons.

Leading Logistics Provider Closes More Business, Develops Stronger Customer Relationships

February 19, 2016

Challenge: This global logistics and transportation service provider for the chemical and process industries needed to automate its contract management and pricing process due to a growing volume of customer quote requests.

Software and Uncoupled Pod System Helps Increase Accuracy and Efficiency

February 19, 2016

Challenge: A third party logistics company, distributing medical devices was looking to increase inventory accuracy as well as throughput of order picking during their peak hours. However, any solution that is presented must be able to accommodate more than one person as a picker.

Damper Seen Over Dry Bulk Freight Market for First Half of 2016

February 19, 2016

Maritime Executive

The latest Dry Bulk Freight Forecaster from Maritime Strategies International reports a deterioration of the consultancy's cautiously optimistic view for improvement in the dry bulk market in the next six months.

IBM's Watson Knows What You're Going to Buy

February 19, 2016

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Winning $1m on Jeopardy! wasn't good enough for IBM's Watson. Now it wants to predict your buying behavior.

DMLogic Solves Temperature Control Compliancy Issues for Major Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

February 18, 2016

Challenge: DMLogic was challenged by a major pharmaceutical manufacturer to help streamline their compliance tracking of temperature-specific drug storage and delivery. While shipments were continuously tracked via their WMS, the manufacturer was forced to manually note temperatures throughout transit via spreadsheet. Eventually, the spreadsheets became cumbersome and the manual tracking was slowing down the process.

Spot Rates Fall as Price of Diesel Dips Below $2

February 18, 2016

DAT

With the national average diesel price falling below $2 per gallon, truckload rates on the spot market continued on a downward trend. Freight brokers usually quote a one-time price that includes both a line-haul portion and the fuel surcharge; declining fuel prices influence spot market rates significantly.

Corning Awards Life Sciences Business to Kuehne & Nagel

February 18, 2016

Kuehne & Nagel

Corning Incorporated has appointed Kuehne & Nagel to manage the distribution requirements for its Corning Life Sciences business in the Asia-Pacific market.

Database Created on Toxicity of 10,000 Chemicals Used in Europe

February 18, 2016

Chemicals-Technology

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have created a safety database on 10,000 chemicals registered in Europe for predicting the toxicity of many of the 90,000 or more other substances in consumer products.

Pharmaceutical/Biotech

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