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Piracy Increases in Straits of Malacca and Singapore
The number of piracy incidents against ships in Asia last month increased compared to the same period in 2016.
Blown Away: Reconnecting Broken Supply Chains After Airfreight Disaster
On a Tuesday in Mexico City, employees at DSV Air & Sea, S.A. de C.V. were in the middle of a normal workday in the head office when a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck - killing more than 350 people.
Someone Figured Out How to Put Tomatoes on a Blockchain
Intrigued by how blockchain was changing finance, an ex-banker at Wells Fargo & Co. and a former executive at Nasdaq Inc. began looking for other opportunities. They looked at applying the technology to insurance, law, even music. Then they hit on farming.
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Why Surge Pricing and Collaborative Logistics Go Hand in Hand
Surge pricing, where the value of a particular item or a service increases according to demand, may soon be coming to logistics - and bringing green benefits in multiple ways.
111617 Why Surge Pricingand
Rise in Warehouse Automation Fuels Fire Risk, Too
A robotic material handling unit zips through a global toy manufacturer's six-story distribution center. As the unit retrieves an open-top plastic container filled with freshly molded toy planes from an automatic storage and retrieval system (ASRS), sparks from a frayed electrical cable on the robot fly everywhere, igniting both the toy planes and the plastic container in which they are stored.
Brexit Uncertainty Is Already Causing Supply Chain Problems, Says Industry Body
The achingly slow progress of the U.K.'s divorce talks with the European Union could already be having a serious effect on suppliers on both sides of the English Channel, an industry body has warned.
The Future of Manufacturing: A Progress Report
Grant Thornton checks in with a new survey that reveals the chief concerns of U.S. manufacturers today, and how they're coping with change.
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As Wind Power Sector Grows, Turbine Makers Feel the Squeeze
Vestas Wind Systems and Siemens Gamesa are giants of the wind-power industry, building mammoth turbines that rise high into the air and power more and more homes. But disappointing earnings reports from the two companies last week indicated that even they are struggling to adapt to a fast-changing sector.
Rare Victory for Rainforests As Nations Vow to Stop 'Death by Chocolate'
The governments of Ghana and the Ivory Coast are formulating plans to immediately put a stop to all new deforestation after a Guardian investigation found that the cocoa industry was destroying their rainforests.
Trump's Asia Trip Shows U.S. at Risk of Being Sidelined in the Region's Economic Future
For all of President Trump's efforts to build personal relations with leaders and to reassure allies during his first Asia trip, the most significant thing that has happened may have been what did not happen.
Hurricanes Put a Damper on Retailers' Profits. Now They're Hoping for a Cold Winter.
Blame it on the weather, retailers say.
111517 Hurricanes Puta Damper
Zara Announces Hardship Fund for Unpaid Turkish Workers
Fashion retailer Zara says it is working on establishing a hardship fund to reimburse a group of Turkish workers who were left unpaid when a supplier factory closed down.
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