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Factors Effecting Slow Trade Growth Worldwide
IHS Markit
The economy is top of mind with global recessions affecting larger countries, a plague of misfortune in Europe and more
Factors Effecting Slow Trade Growth Worldwide
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Are Your Dangerous Goods Shippers Leaving Money on the Table?
Labelmaster
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Are Your Dangerous Goods Shippers Leaving Money on the Table?
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Amazon Leans on Government in its Quest to Be a Delivery Powerhouse
Amazon
Amazon pushed for commercial drone usage, extending truck lengths, improving roads and bridges, and more
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New Container Weight Rule Could Raise Shipping Costs, Congestion
The time and complications from verifying the weight of shipping containers may boost costs by 14 percent
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CloudCraze Partners with Deloitte Digital to Enhance Adobe Business-to-Business Commerce
CloudCraze, LLC, division of Salesforce
Partnership enables customer-centric, scalable and robust digital commerce platforms for business-to-business customers
Adobe Experience Manager is explained on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8SCBUgv2TE.
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Global Digital Payments to Reach $3.6 Trillion this Year
Juniper Research Limited
Deployment of near field communication payments by players like Apple will increase consumer usage of smartphones
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Ocean Ports & Carriers
F.S. Mackenzie Extends FPS Network to Georgia
Georgia is an important gateway and transit point for Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia
From left to right: Julia Artamonova, operations; Tamar Tvildiani, accounts; Pavle Chikhladze, customs and warehousing; David Bakuradze, customer service; and Nina Inasaridze, operations
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Cyber Risk, Superstorms and Economic Pressures Challenge Shipping Safety Progress
Allianz Trade
Although the number of losses remained stable, declining by just 3 percent compared with the previous year (88), 2015 was the safest year in shipping for a decade.
This year, the effect of a “super” El Niño is expected to lead to more extreme weather conditions. Meanwhile, bad weather was a factor in three of the five largest vessels lost last year, including the El Faro, one of the worst US commercial maritime disasters in decades.
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Metric of the Month: Percentage of Supplier Orders Delivered on Time
APQC
Suppliers that are chronically late can shut down production lines and cost a tremendous amount due to downtime
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Sourcing & Procurement
Crude Mystery: Where Did 800,000 Barrels of Oil Go?
The oversupply driving crude prices to decade lows could be smaller than estimated and prices could rebound faster
Oil rallied Monday following the IEA’s projection that shale production is poised to fall this year by about 600,000 barrels a day, and by 200,000 barrels a day in 2017. U.S. crude rose 6.2 percent to $31.48 a barrel. Oil has fallen by about two-thirds since 2014.
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Minimum-Wage Increases Set to Raise e-Commerce Logistics Costs
CBRE Research
Warehouses with more than 500 people may see annual labor costs grow by $1 million or more
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Business Groups Seek Extension of West Coast Port Labor Deal
Retailers and manufacturers want predictability by extending the contract agreed to in negotiations last year
FILE - The ports of Los Angeles (pictured) and Long Beach, which form the largest port complex in the Western Hemisphere, reported a 37 percent jump in container imports from a year earlier, when both ports slowed to a crawl amid protracted labor negotiations. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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Obama Eases Restrictions on Trade, Travel to Cuba
The new measures ease restrictions on American financial institutions and broaden Cuba’s access to the global economy
The changes, which go into effect Jan. 27, will permit more U.S. exports related to disaster preparedness, education, agricultural production, food processing, public transportation and art.
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