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Big Emissions Bills Are Coming for Ships Sailing in Europe

It could take a while to really cut emissions, because it would still be cheaper to pay for the emissions rather than use more expensive marine biofuels.

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Strangling the Flow: The Impacts of Overbearing Regulations on California’s Logistics Sector

Adopting a technology-driven approach to sustainability offers more advantages than tighter regulations that disproportionately benefit large-scale corporations and drive up prices.

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U.S. Flight Attendants Threaten Strikes

Air crew are demanding fairer share of vast profits from Alaska Airlines, American and United.

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First Grain Ships Arrive Using New Route to Ukraine

Officials said it was the first time civilian ships had reached a Ukrainian port since the collapse of a UN-backed deal with Russia.

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Codelco Planning to End Some Copper Deals with Chinese Clients in 2025

Sources said Codelco is hoping to replace exclusively copper concentrate deals with other agreements that include concentrate and value-added intermediate products.

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G-7 Plans to Ban Imports of Russian Diamonds, Belgium Says

The mechanism will consist of a direct ban on purchases, which would take effect on January 1, as well as an indirect ban, which would kick in more gradually.

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Why the Medical-Device Industry Is Embracing Contract Manufacturing

In the manufacturing of medical devices, there’s no margin of error. Does it make sense, then, to outsource production of those vital yet sensitive instruments?

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Uncertainty is the New Normal

It’s time for the convergence of supply chain and manufacturing.

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Watch: A New and Innovative Methodology for Packing a Container

Wojciech Matusik, MIT professor and co-founder of Inkbit, describes a new computational method of packing a container in the most efficient way possible.

A New And Innovative Methodology For Packing A Container

U.S. Manufacturing Rates Grew Slightly in August

Even though U.S. manufacturing outputs grew by 0.1% last month, production levels in August fell by 0.6% year-over-year.

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UAW Employees Strike Against GM, Stellantis and Ford

Roughly 13,000 UAW members walked off the job at car manufacturing facilities in Missouri, Michigan and Ohio on September 15.

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YoY Port of LA Container Volumes Grew for the First Time in Over a Year

The port also saw the number of imported TEUs handled increase by 7% year-over-year to more than 433,000 TEUs, the first year-on-year increase in more than a year.

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