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Wal-Mart Sets Environmental Plan as People Seek Green Items
Wal-Mart is laying out its environmental map for the next several years as it tries to satisfy customers who want green products at affordable prices. The world's largest retailer says it will seek to reduce emissions in its own operations by 18 percent by 2025, and work toward adding no waste to landfills in key markets like Canada and the United States. It also plans to be powered by 50 percent clean and renewable energy sources.
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Report Shows Retail Imports Up as Holiday Shoppers Head to Stores
With the holiday shopping season under way, imports at the nation's major retail container ports are expected to be up 4.4 percent this month over the same time last year and should see a slightly larger increase next month, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
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Post-Election, Can Trade Stop Being a Dirty Word?
In the political heat of this year's presidential election, the term "global trade" rarely carried positive connotations.
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Top 40 Cargo Airports Provide Glimpses of Future Growth
Sometimes all it takes is a shift in strategy from a single carrier to make an impact on airport freight traffic. Qatar Airways Cargo, for instance, has been ramping up its airfreight routes for the last couple of years, seeking more high-value cargo, such as pharmaceuticals, and forming joint ventures with other airlines, such as IAG. Qatar achieved such growth via "fleet and network expansion, innovation in our technology, creative interline agreements and by deploying capacity on expanding or untapped markets," said Ulrich Ogiermann, the carrier's chief cargo officer.
HanesBrands Outperforms Apparel Peers on Carbon Emissions
HanesBrands received a B score on the CDP's 2016 climate change report - better performance than the apparel industry average, according to CDP, formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project.
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Report: New Low in Sea Trade Growth
Seaborne shipments passed 10 billion tons for the first time ever in 2015, up 2.1 percent from 9.8 billion tons the year before - the slowest pace of growth in the industry since 2009, according to the UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2016. The report says future growth looks uncertain.
UPS to Acquire Healthcare Logistics Company Marken
UPS has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire Marken, a global provider of supply chain solutions to the life sciences industry. The transaction, which provides UPS with growth opportunities across the life sciences customer base, is expected to close by Dec. 31, UPS said. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Forecast Says 1.4m New Industrial Robots by 2019
The EU is frontrunner in the world's robotic race, but by 2019 China will have taken over, according to the latest forecast from the International Federation of Robots. More than 1.4 million new industrial robots will be installed in factories around the world by 2019.
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Pharma Cold Chain Distribution Updates from MHRA, IATA, GSK, Teva, J&J, World Courier, Finnair…
SMi Group reports: World Courier, Finnair, MHRA, IATA, Teva, GSK, J&J, Sanofi will meet in London this December at Cold Chain Distribution 2016
Scandit Launches Mobile Barcode Scanner With Improved Speed, Range
Scandit is launching a new version of its barcode scanner software development kit (SDK), which will allow retail, manufacturing and supply chain enterprises to replace traditional barcode scanners and mobile computers with more flexible and cost-effective mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and wearables, the barcode software company says. The result: equivalent or improved scanning performance on a smart device at a fraction of the total cost of ownership of traditional scanners.
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Carrier Transicold Says New Tool Locates Source of Temperature Abnormalities
For refrigerated haulers who require independent verification of temperatures inside trucks and trailers or immediate documentation for receivers, Carrier Transicold is offering its DataLink 2 recorder. The system, for single-temperature or multi-temperature applications, uses up to three independent temperature sensors, providing an added layer of verification beyond the refrigeration system's built-in recording ability, the refrigeration equipment company says.
Boeing Sees E-Commerce, Express Services Driving Air Cargo Traffic
Boeing Commercial Airplanes has issued a 20-year outlook for global air-cargo traffic, calling for a consolidated annual growth rate of 4.2 percent in volume (evaluated in metric tonnage), and saying this increase will result in significant demand for new and converted cargo jets needed to meet market demand by 2035.
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