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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.

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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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Smarter Operations: The Value Chain’s Role in Your Digital Evolution - Chapter 2

The Look of Production of the Future

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Hold the Rye: Promos Leave Restaurant Supply Chains Stretched

First, Subway restaurants ran out of rye bread. Then the corned beef started to dwindle.

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.

Aera's New Business App Looks to Bring Siri to Your Supply Chain

In a coffee shop in New York, Frederic Laluyaux leans in to talk into his phone over the background music. The phone finally picks up his query, about future inventory in South America, and a Siri-like voice almost instantly replies.

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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.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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