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Software Solutions

Video-Empowered Innovators: Delivering Responsive Service and Uptime for Customers

Some enterprises are seeking innovative ways to leverage experts using live video collaboration in the field.

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Risk/Compliance

Second Ship from Bankrupt Hanjin Allowed into California Ports

The collapse of Hanjin under debts of $5.5 billion is causing havoc in global trade networks and a surge in freight rates.

Truckers began moving freight from the Hanjin Greece (above), one of roughly a dozen of the company's ships destined for the U.S. West Coast, out of the port of Long Beach Monday.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Hanjin Shipping Bankruptcy and Supply Chain Impacts

Retailers will be forced to re-evaluate their import strategy to mitigate potential supply chain interruptions.

Hanjin is trying to steer its ships to Singapore, Hamburg and Busan—key transshipment hubs across the globe—in order to minimize disruptions to the supply chain.

Software & Technology

Janam Launches XT2 with Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Mobile Enterprise

Microsoft Corporation

This Microsoft mobile operating system provides enterprise-grade security and flexibility to support business growth.

The recently launched XT2 is a light and rugged device—enabling mobile employees to work smarter and more efficiently. With both Android 5 Lollipop and Windows 10 IoT Mobile Enterprise versions, XT2 customers now have access to two of the industry’s most powerful operating systems in the same sleek, rugged and lightweight form factor.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Bordering on Chaos: $14 Billion in Cargo Stranded at Sea

The global shipping disruption comes as companies are shipping merchandise to fill shelves for the holidays.

South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries estimates Hanjin Shipping needs more than 600 billion won to cover unpaid costs like fuel, including about 100 billion won immediately for payments such as to port operators to unload cargo from stranded ships.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Hanjin Shipping Parent Raising Funds to Unload Stranded Cargo

The collapse of Hanjin Shipping has caused havoc in global trade networks and a surge in freight rates.

Hanjin Shipping's abrupt exit from oceangoing commerce comes just as peak shipping starts to ramp up.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Spot Rates Skyrocket after Hanjin Collapse

Spot container freight rates on major routes from Asia soared by up to 42 percent following the Hanjin collapse.

World Container Index Shanghai-Europe Weekly Spot Rate and Trend Line (US$/40-foot container) as of September 1, 2016

Risk/Compliance

Supply Chain Managers: Are You the Biggest Risk in Your Supply Chain?

Avoid these three most common risks that companies create for themselves in the supply chain.

The greatest risks to your supply chain are your choices—especially how you treat your supply chain partners.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

More Hanjin Ships Seized as Freight Rates Surge and Cargo Owners Fret

Hanjin Shipping vessels have been seized at Chinese ports in the wake of the South Korean firm's collapse.

The court's move to rehabilitate the world's seventh-largest container shipper is seen as mainly procedural and an eventual liquidation of assets is likely, analysts and industry officials said.

Risk/Compliance

Make Big Trucks Physically Unable to Speed, Regulators Suggest

Capping speeds for new large vehicles may reduce the 1,115 fatal crashes involving heavy trucks that occur annually.

A new proposal would impose a nationwide limit by using an electronic device to cap speeds of newly made U.S. vehicles that weigh more than 26,000 pounds.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Another Hurdle for The Ocean Alliance

Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)

Using proposed buying power through joint purchasing agreements could harm both downstream and upstream participants.

Commissioner William P. Doyle of the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission (above) voted in favor of requesting additional information from The Ocean Alliance parties.

Risk/Compliance

Uber for Couriers: Logistics Software Promises to Minimize Traffic and Emissions

The new software reroutes trucks and delivery vehicles with real-time data and machine learning.

Premonition’s technology can optimize large job sets, rerouting multiple vehicles in real time based on a plethora of factors: changed traffic conditions, weather, delivery windows, incoming orders and returns, truck capacity, a driver’s final destination and consumer requests such as redirected parcels.

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