The Current and Future State of Drones
Last Friday, in my weekly news roundup, I mentioned that A.P. Moller Maersk A/S, the world’s largest containership operator by capacity, is studying deploying drones aboard its giant vessels and at its...
View ArticleIs Your Supply Base Employing Slaves?
Multinational companies can have thousands of Tier 1 suppliers, and in the extended multi-tier supply chain it could be hundreds to thousands of upstream suppliers. How can companies insure that...
View ArticleNew Food Safety Regulations Impact Truckers
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is, step by step, implementing new rules based on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The goal of these efforts is “to protect foods from farm to...
View ArticleELD Survey: The Data, the Facts and How ELDs Affect Carriers
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate, created to improve safety within the transportation industry, is currently the hot topic on everyone’s...
View ArticleIn Defense of Global Trade
Logically enough, the majority of Logistics Viewpoints (LV) readers work in the logistics field. And LV is a logistics industry blog, not a political op-ed site. However, I believe the issue of global...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership: The View from Asia
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a speech to American business leaders in New York on September 19 said this: “Japan and the US must each obtain domestic approval of the TPP as soon as possible....
View ArticleBeyond the Hype, Drones Really are Being Used to Improve Value Chains
While Amazon has gotten a lot of press surrounding the possibility of using drones to deliver goods to customers, current regulations make that all but impossible. But that does not mean drones are not...
View Article8 Things Keeping Supply Chain Professionals up at Night
As 2017 fast approaches, shippers are hard at work forecasting what the new year may bring. Unfortunately, with this planning comes a host of trends and challenges that leave supply chain professionals...
View ArticleProposed Transportation Regulations to Impact the Autonomous Vehicle Market
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposed new safety regulations that will impact the Autonomous Vehicle market. The chief fear surrounding Autonomous vehicles is that they...
View ArticleTrump and the Paris Agreement: Global Supply Chains to the Rescue?
On June 1st, the US withdrew from the Paris Climate deal. Many of the largest companies in the world have embraced sustainability. almost all organizations (97 percent) place a high level of importance...
View ArticleELD Mandate and Capacity Impacts
What will happen to truck capacity when the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) Mandate is finally enforced this coming December? The ELD mandate will help to standardize Hours of Service (HOS). Paper logs...
View ArticleTop 10 Logistics Stories of 2017
2017 is just about in the books, and it has been a busy year for the supply chain industry. Let’s look back at ten of the top logistics stories of the year. Drones 2017 has been the year of the drone....
View ArticleTrump Blasts USPS for Charging Amazon “So Little”
Trump blasted the United States Postal Service for charging Amazon "so little." Amazon is using zone skipping, something difficult to do. And the USPS may indeed be undercharging. The post Trump Blasts...
View ArticleDrone Deliveries: Are They Actually on the Horizon?
The United States has been lagging behind other parts of the world when it comes to the testing and adoption of drones for last mile deliveries. This is not due to a lack of interest or research and...
View ArticleNortheast States Address Emissions with Transport Cap-and-Invest Program
Leaders of nine member-states of the Transportation & Climate Initiative have committed to create a regional transportation policy to drive down emissions and strengthen economies in the same...
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Editor’s Choice – FMCSA HOS Final Rule: What to Know
Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Choice” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. This article comes from GlobalTranz...
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Trump and the Paris Agreement: Sustainable Procurement to the Rescue?
On June 1st, President Trump announced that the US was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This treaty committed the US – and 194 other countries – to reducing rising global...
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ELD Mandate and Capacity Impacts
What will happen to truck capacity when the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) Mandate is finally enforced this coming December? The ELD mandate will help to standardize Hours of Service (HOS). Paper logs...
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Top 10 Logistics Stories of 2017
2017 is just about in the books, and it has been a busy year for the supply chain industry. Let’s look back at ten of the top logistics stories of the year. Drones 2017 has been the year of the drone....
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Trump Blasts USPS for Charging Amazon “So Little”
In a Twitter blast last Friday morning, Trump said “Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their...
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