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Report From SCOPE Spring 2013

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As Oil Interests Move Into West African Waters, So Do Growing Numbers of Pirates

While the frequency of pirate attacks off the Horn of Africa has fallen to its lowest level since 2009, this is no time to celebrate. Somali pirates still hold two vessels for ransom with 60 crew members as hostages. More alarming, however, is the increase in the capabilities of pirate groups in West Africa's Gulf of Guinea, now challenging Somalia as the world's most dangerous place to sail.

What Keeps Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Up at Night?

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Keeping It Cool: Challenges in Temperature-Controlled Transportation

RWI, an asset-based 3PL specializing in temperature-controlled transportation, recently conducted a survey of shippers with cold supply chains to better understand their needs and challenges. Chris Taylor, director of sales and marketing, discusses the results.

SEC's New Rule on Conflict Minerals: Clarity and Confusion

The fog is beginning to clear. High-tech and other types of manufacturers are getting a better idea of what they must do in order to conform to new requirements for disclosing the presence in their products of conflict minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring states. Still, a number of questions remain unanswered.

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Congressional Report: Transportation and Infrastructure

The 2012 MAP-21 bill provides highway and transit funding through FY 2014. Janet Kavinoky of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce provides insight into how this law will impact logistics and discusses other transportation issues before Congress.

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Nordstrom Says It's No Longer Tracking Customers Via Cellphones; Other Retailers Continue Trial

Eight months into a controversial customer-tracking mobile trial, Nordstrom has halted the effort. Although Nordstrom took a lot of criticism for the mostly misunderstood program from consumer media, it's not clear whether the project ended as a result of the criticism or the trial had simply run its course.

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Tracing the Food Supply Chain From Farm to Fork

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Template for Supplier Social Responsibility Drawn Up for Housewares Industry

The International Housewares Association (IHA), responding to a call from the housewares industry, has created a template for social responsibility issues.

Can Index-Linked Contracts Bring Sanity to the Liner Trades?

On October 13, 2011, the Federal Maritime Commission launched a rulemaking that proposed to allow rate levels within oceangoing service contracts to be linked to industry freight indices. Some carriers and shippers had pushed for the change in hopes of achieving greater rate stability in the notoriously uncertain liner trades.

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Applying Risk Management to Carrier Selection

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Indonesia's Waters Have Become the Most Pirate-Infested Area in the World

Somalia and Gulf of Aden still have pirate-infested waters, but over the last five quarters, a new country's national waters have become the most heavily pirated on earth, according to data from the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre.

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