So you think you know big. What you are about to read redefines the term “big”. In February of 2011, Mærsk line announced that it had commissioned Korea’s Daewoo to build the world’s largest ship. At a cost of US$190 million, the 400 meter-long ’Triple-E’ class behemoth will carry 18,000 TEU containers, 2500 more than the vessel [...]
Technology and creative “moonshot” thinking are combining once again to present an incredible solution to some serious limitations faced by logistics professionals. Many of us might commonly associate the word “drone” with those terrible and antiseptic instruments of 21st Century warfare, border and police surveillance, spying, or the antagonists to humanity in some post-apocalyptic Hollywood [...]
Logistics doesn’t get any more awesome than this! It has been said that logistics is the key enabler behind all great human achievement. In so many ways, our profession is that vital life force that is always in action behind the scenes. From the building of the pyramids, to the staging of the Olympic Games, [...]
For businesses in London and throughout the United Kingdom, the Olympic Games promises to bring a bonanza of commercial activity that has never been enjoyed on the British Isles. The eyes of the world will be focused upon England. Beneath the veneer of the Games, however, life and commerce must go on. Goods need to [...]
The construction of the Panama Canal, completed in 1914, was truly a marvel of engineering, logistics, and human perseverance. Its influence on international trade for the past century has been immeasurable. And now it is undergoing a face lift of a magnitude that would make an aging Hollywood starlet blush. But unlike the starlets’s dalliance [...]
Good logistics alone can’t win a war. Bad logistics alone can lose it. —General Brehon B. Somervell Commanding General Army Services Forces, 1942 This morning, June 3, 2012, I attended a Memorial Service in recognition of the 68th anniversary of D Day. On June 6, 1944, Allied Armed Forces attacked Axis defenders at the [...]
Warehousing has become more than a discipline. It is now a science. And it might even be called a “sexy science!” The warehouse has been the perfect target for technological innovations and advancements over the past four decades. The advent and continuous improvements of warehouse management systems (WMS) has made enormous contribution to enterprise productivity. [...]
It seems that the Olympic Games is an event that people love to hate. The scope of the Games makes it one of the most far-reaching and complex initiatives in modern times. The breadth of its influence is its attraction, its strength, and its everlasting weakness. The Games has become, since its inception, a lightning [...]
The Global Maritime Logistics industry is almost unimaginably huge. In my role as the Operations Manager for a major importer of finished goods into Canada from Europe and Asia, I was familiar with the names of many of the big players in the business – Mærsk, P&O Nedloyd, and so forth – who carried a [...]
Germany continues to stand strong amid the well-publicized suffering of its neighbors throughout the European Union (EU). And the country appears to have discovered a key piece of the puzzle that can be levered to help create prosperity and growth: logistics. Far from being a poor, distant cousin to the more glamorous commercial pastimes of [...]
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