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LNG Vessel Owners' Earnings Hopes Hinge on More U.S. Liquefaction Plants Coming Online
LNG shipowners will have to wait until 2018 for earnings to improve, when the majority of new U.S. plants are expected to come online, according to the latest edition of the LNG Forecaster report published by global shipping consultancy Drewry.
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Continued M&A Activity Predicted for Logistics Services Industry
Last year was a pretty hot 12 months in the area of business mergers and acquisitions, which hit a new high of $4.3tr in deals struck.
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Environmental Defense Fund Praises Walmart's Promise to Limit Products With Certain Chemicals
Walmart has announced a 95 percent reduction by weight of "high priority chemicals" from certain products sold in U.S. locations, according to its latest global responsibility report.
Logility Opens Offices in Four Countries
Logility, Inc. has opened offices in Dusseldorf, Germany; Malmö, Sweden; São Paulo, Brazil, and Sydney, Australia.
DHL Launches ACE-Compliant Customs Brokerage System
DHL Global Forwarding has launched its new internal U.S. customs brokerage-management system.
MatchBack Systems Launches MatchPodium for Street Turns
MatchBack Systems, Inc. has launched MatchPodium, software for analyzing data and providing systematic street-turn options to truck-fleet and container planners.
SAP Unveils Apps for Digital Asset Management
SAP SE has introduced SAP Asset Intelligence Network and SAP Predictive Maintenance and Service.
Food for Thought: Millennials Especially Favor Apps for Grocery Shopping
Mobile app use for grocery shopping is growing quickly, particularly among millennials. Roughly 43 percent of shoppers in this group say they use some kind of mobile app to grocery shop, according to a recent Shopper STAT study by Progressive Grocer.
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Last Year's West Coast Labor Strife Boosts New York/New Jersey, Houston, Savannah, Index Shows
The balance of seaborne-cargo delivery in the U.S. shifted further east in the last year, resulting in East Coast seaports making gains against their West Coast counterparts in CBRE Group Inc.'s second-annual North American Seaports and Logistics Index.
Post-Recession, Mid-Sized Suppliers Seek New Avenues of Trade Financing
Global businesses are still experiencing the aftereffects of the Great Recession of 2007-2009. But perhaps no sector has felt the pain more acutely than mid-market suppliers.
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Robots May Conquer E-Commerce's Problematic Last Mile
In the shadow of Greenwich's 02 Arena - the futuristic dome originally built as London’s showpiece for the Millennium - what looks like a picnic cooler on wheels zips among groups of gawking children. This little delivery robot, designed to autonomously navigate sidewalks, not roads, later this year will begin making deliveries from local businesses direct to customers. In doing so, it may just conquer e-commerce's final frontier: the Last Mile, the least efficient and most problematic step in the delivery process.
Is Widespread Adoption of Robotics Imminent?
Robotics has played a significant role in shaping the manufacturing environment for decades. Yet the impact of robotics in manufacturing has traditionally been directed at industrial manufacturing (think automotive manufacturing). This is all about to change as the new wave of robotics are equipped with intelligence systems, designed for flexibility and mobility, armed with sensors to enable human and robot collaboration, and are priced more attractively for a broader base of buyers.
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