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Article; Leapfrog Logistics
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/leapfrog-logistics/
The growing economic significance of infrastructures and logistics, on the one hand, and digital platforms on the other, are increasingly interdependent trends. Since the logistics revolution of the 1970s, highways, ports, road networks, utility systems and advanced logistical mapping and forecasting have become central to securing the huge volumes of commodities flowing through the global economy—especially as production processes have fragmented and trade in parts and components has expanded. Global shipping volumes doubled from 5,984 million tons in 2000 to 11,071 million tons in 2019. Moreover, digital platform firms increasingly control physical logistics infrastructure, by taking ownership of cloud computing and data centers, internet cabling, telecoms networks, transport systems and satellites.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/leapfrog-logistics/
The growing economic significance of infrastructures and logistics, on the one hand, and digital platforms on the other, are increasingly interdependent trends. Since the logistics revolution of the 1970s, highways, ports, road networks, utility systems and advanced logistical mapping and forecasting have become central to securing the huge volumes of commodities flowing through the global economy—especially as production processes have fragmented and trade in parts and components has expanded. Global shipping volumes doubled from 5,984 million tons in 2000 to 11,071 million tons in 2019. Moreover, digital platform firms increasingly control physical logistics infrastructure, by taking ownership of cloud computing and data centers, internet cabling, telecoms networks, transport systems and satellites.
Article: Chinese machtsovername in de Europese zeehavens
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/chinese-privatisering-van-de-griekse-haven-piraeus?share=uCYJY%2BKtxN%2Fonk0Mj53TNkGTOx9LykQRdIDIGeBe3pLPBycBRswcdqKhhnY98cg%3D
Het Chinese staatsconcern Cosco Shipping heeft de macht kunnen grijpen in de Griekse haven Piraeus. Nieuwe regels tegen riskante strategische investeringen door buitenlandse bedrijven hebben niets uitgehaald. Door economisch opportunisme van de lidstaten faalt de Europese Unie als geheel.
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/chinese-privatisering-van-de-griekse-haven-piraeus?share=uCYJY%2BKtxN%2Fonk0Mj53TNkGTOx9LykQRdIDIGeBe3pLPBycBRswcdqKhhnY98cg%3D
Het Chinese staatsconcern Cosco Shipping heeft de macht kunnen grijpen in de Griekse haven Piraeus. Nieuwe regels tegen riskante strategische investeringen door buitenlandse bedrijven hebben niets uitgehaald. Door economisch opportunisme van de lidstaten faalt de Europese Unie als geheel.
Paper; The Red Sea link. Geo-economic projections
https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/72105/QM-03-21-328-EN-N.pdf
The Red Sea region is becoming increasingly important in global geopolitics. Given its importance for global trade and security, growing geo-economic projections, military rivalries and the risk of confrontation between key regional players and international actors are growing and could have far-reaching and disruptive repercussions. This paper explores the critical economic and security issues that link littoral, regional and international powers to the Red Sea region. It shows how efforts by countries in the broader Gulf region and external powers to extend their influence to the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa can produce a potential new conflict zone. It concludes by offering some reflections on how to promote regional security and economic development in the region, with a view to minimising the risk of conflict and increasing opportunities for cooperation
https://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/72105/QM-03-21-328-EN-N.pdf
The Red Sea region is becoming increasingly important in global geopolitics. Given its importance for global trade and security, growing geo-economic projections, military rivalries and the risk of confrontation between key regional players and international actors are growing and could have far-reaching and disruptive repercussions. This paper explores the critical economic and security issues that link littoral, regional and international powers to the Red Sea region. It shows how efforts by countries in the broader Gulf region and external powers to extend their influence to the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa can produce a potential new conflict zone. It concludes by offering some reflections on how to promote regional security and economic development in the region, with a view to minimising the risk of conflict and increasing opportunities for cooperation
Global Ocean Carriers Halt Red Sea Transits – What to Expect
https://www.flexport.com/blog/global-ocean-carriers-halt-red-sea-transits-what-to-expect/
As of today, 389 carrier vessels accounting for 5.4 million TEUs of capacity are actively diverting, will divert, or have already diverted from the Suez Canal as a direct result of these attacks.
After Maersk’s decision on December 31 to re-pause transits through the high-risk areas, they are now diverting vessels that were idling south of the Gulf of Aden towards the southern tip of Africa.
COSCO is also now routing most vessels around the Cape of Good Hope but continues to assess on a vessel-by-vessel basis. See the below visual in which COSCO’s vessels are in yellow.
Some carriers are deploying vessels that typically service other trades like Asia to North America and LATAM to Asia to Europe trades to compensate for service disruptions. Today alone, we saw 4 vessels across HMM and Hapag-Lloyd accounting for 33k TEUs of capacity that will be deployed on the Asia to North Europe and Mediterranean trades. Vessel deployment will help, but not solve capacity constraints. Equipment shortages at origin ports are expected to rise in the coming weeks as the impacts of service disruptions make their way downstream.
The military coalition aimed at protecting the risk areas now consists of 12 nations. On Wednesday, the coalition warned Houthis of ‘consequences’ for continued attacks in the region. From the White House, “The Houthis will bear the responsibility of the consequences should they continue to threaten lives, the global economy, and free flow of commerce in the region’s critical waterways.”
https://www.flexport.com/blog/global-ocean-carriers-halt-red-sea-transits-what-to-expect/
As of today, 389 carrier vessels accounting for 5.4 million TEUs of capacity are actively diverting, will divert, or have already diverted from the Suez Canal as a direct result of these attacks.
After Maersk’s decision on December 31 to re-pause transits through the high-risk areas, they are now diverting vessels that were idling south of the Gulf of Aden towards the southern tip of Africa.
COSCO is also now routing most vessels around the Cape of Good Hope but continues to assess on a vessel-by-vessel basis. See the below visual in which COSCO’s vessels are in yellow.
Some carriers are deploying vessels that typically service other trades like Asia to North America and LATAM to Asia to Europe trades to compensate for service disruptions. Today alone, we saw 4 vessels across HMM and Hapag-Lloyd accounting for 33k TEUs of capacity that will be deployed on the Asia to North Europe and Mediterranean trades. Vessel deployment will help, but not solve capacity constraints. Equipment shortages at origin ports are expected to rise in the coming weeks as the impacts of service disruptions make their way downstream.
The military coalition aimed at protecting the risk areas now consists of 12 nations. On Wednesday, the coalition warned Houthis of ‘consequences’ for continued attacks in the region. From the White House, “The Houthis will bear the responsibility of the consequences should they continue to threaten lives, the global economy, and free flow of commerce in the region’s critical waterways.”
Article; More than 100 container ships rerouted from Suez canal to avoid Houthi attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/20/more-than-100-container-ships-rerouted-suez-canal-red-sea-houthi-attacks-yemen
More than 100 container ships have been rerouted around southern Africa to avoid the Suez canal, in a sign of the disruption to global trade caused by Houthi rebels attacking vessels on the western coast of Yemen. The shipping company Kuehne and Nagel said it had identified 103 ships that had already changed course, with more expected to go around South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. The diversion adds about 6,000 nautical miles to a typical journey from Asia to Europe, potentially adding three or four weeks to product delivery times.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/20/more-than-100-container-ships-rerouted-suez-canal-red-sea-houthi-attacks-yemen
More than 100 container ships have been rerouted around southern Africa to avoid the Suez canal, in a sign of the disruption to global trade caused by Houthi rebels attacking vessels on the western coast of Yemen. The shipping company Kuehne and Nagel said it had identified 103 ships that had already changed course, with more expected to go around South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope. The diversion adds about 6,000 nautical miles to a typical journey from Asia to Europe, potentially adding three or four weeks to product delivery times.
Article; Cold chain
https://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/59374-raising-temperatures-of-cold-storage-warehouses-would-cut-emissions-lineage-says
According to the group, academic research shows that raising the standard storage temperature of most frozen food by just 3 degrees Celsius to -15 C could make a significant environmental impact by cutting carbon dioxide emissions by the equivalent of taking 3.8 million cars off the road per year, without compromising food safety or quality.
https://www.dcvelocity.com/articles/59374-raising-temperatures-of-cold-storage-warehouses-would-cut-emissions-lineage-says
According to the group, academic research shows that raising the standard storage temperature of most frozen food by just 3 degrees Celsius to -15 C could make a significant environmental impact by cutting carbon dioxide emissions by the equivalent of taking 3.8 million cars off the road per year, without compromising food safety or quality.
Wakeo; Company Website
https://wakeo.co/
A single platform connected to the largest network on the market for freight forwarders, shippers and carriers. Unlock the value of your supply chain with multimodal real-time visibility.
https://wakeo.co/
A single platform connected to the largest network on the market for freight forwarders, shippers and carriers. Unlock the value of your supply chain with multimodal real-time visibility.
SeaRoutes; Company Website
https://searoutes.com/
Searoutes leverages modern algorithms & datasets to go beyond the standard methodologies. We provide CO2 emissions for transport, and powerful routing engines, that accurately match the services operated by the carriers.
https://searoutes.com/
Searoutes leverages modern algorithms & datasets to go beyond the standard methodologies. We provide CO2 emissions for transport, and powerful routing engines, that accurately match the services operated by the carriers.
Supply Chain Innocation: Drone Corridor
https://techhq.com/2023/01/supply-chain-innovation-drone-corridor-unlocks-pilotless-future/
If you’re a fan of flight tracking websites such as flightradar24.com, planefinder.net, and other apps showing air traffic, then you’ll be familiar with the concept of highways in the sky. Monitored by air traffic controllers, planes keep to designated flight paths or air tracks. Point-to-point air transport has tremendous supply chain advantages, primarily in getting goods to customers in the shortest possible time. And delivery options could soon include uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) thanks to commercial drone corridor plans.
https://techhq.com/2023/01/supply-chain-innovation-drone-corridor-unlocks-pilotless-future/
If you’re a fan of flight tracking websites such as flightradar24.com, planefinder.net, and other apps showing air traffic, then you’ll be familiar with the concept of highways in the sky. Monitored by air traffic controllers, planes keep to designated flight paths or air tracks. Point-to-point air transport has tremendous supply chain advantages, primarily in getting goods to customers in the shortest possible time. And delivery options could soon include uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) thanks to commercial drone corridor plans.
Article; What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?
https://archive.ph/dxz2X
Earlier this year, I attended a three-day conference, in Las Vegas, conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal in various ways with product returns, unsold inventories, and other capitalist jetsam. The field is large and growing. Dale Rogers, a business professor at Arizona State, gave a joint presentation with his son Zachary, a business professor at Colorado State, during which they said that winter-holiday returns in the United States are now worth more than three hundred billion dollars a year.
https://archive.ph/dxz2X
Earlier this year, I attended a three-day conference, in Las Vegas, conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal in various ways with product returns, unsold inventories, and other capitalist jetsam. The field is large and growing. Dale Rogers, a business professor at Arizona State, gave a joint presentation with his son Zachary, a business professor at Colorado State, during which they said that winter-holiday returns in the United States are now worth more than three hundred billion dollars a year.
Article, How a Cocaine-Smuggling Cartel Infiltrated the World’s Biggest Shipping Company
https://archive.vn/8rRn2
As MSC grew into a dominant force in global trade, it also became a prime drug-trafficking conduit for Balkan gangs.
https://archive.vn/8rRn2
As MSC grew into a dominant force in global trade, it also became a prime drug-trafficking conduit for Balkan gangs.
Zergatran, Company Website
https://www.zergratran.com/
Zergratran is an innovative and sustainable high-capacity transportation company that is building the world’s first tunnel to expedite shipping goods between the North Atlantic and the North Pacific. In doing so it will offer faster, smarter, safer and cheaper solutions to existing alternatives.
https://www.zergratran.com/
Zergratran is an innovative and sustainable high-capacity transportation company that is building the world’s first tunnel to expedite shipping goods between the North Atlantic and the North Pacific. In doing so it will offer faster, smarter, safer and cheaper solutions to existing alternatives.
ABS Wavesight, Company Website
https://www.abswavesight.com/
Maritime SaaS for risk and fleet management
https://www.abswavesight.com/
Maritime SaaS for risk and fleet management
Data Ports
https://dataports-project.eu/
The main goal of the DataPorts project is to comprehensively address non-covered aspects of data platforms, with a specific application to transportation logistics in port environments in order to achieve cognitive PCS and improve data management between involved stakeholders.
DataPorts aims to design, develop, set-up and operate a data platform for the trusted, secure and reliable data sharing and trading among the actors operating in the diverse supply chains involved in the seaports, also enabling the connection with other stakeholders in the logistics supply chain. The adoption and use of this Data Platform by existing connected / digital ports will imply their transition to actual cognitive ports, taking real advantage of the huge amount of data produced by the stakeholders and opening the way to new capabilities:
- Real-time control of operations
- Streamlined decision making
- Accurate prediction of future events and situations
- Prescriptive analytics.
https://dataports-project.eu/
The main goal of the DataPorts project is to comprehensively address non-covered aspects of data platforms, with a specific application to transportation logistics in port environments in order to achieve cognitive PCS and improve data management between involved stakeholders.
DataPorts aims to design, develop, set-up and operate a data platform for the trusted, secure and reliable data sharing and trading among the actors operating in the diverse supply chains involved in the seaports, also enabling the connection with other stakeholders in the logistics supply chain. The adoption and use of this Data Platform by existing connected / digital ports will imply their transition to actual cognitive ports, taking real advantage of the huge amount of data produced by the stakeholders and opening the way to new capabilities:
- Real-time control of operations
- Streamlined decision making
- Accurate prediction of future events and situations
- Prescriptive analytics.
Shippeo, Company Website
https://www.shippeo.com/
Using automation and artificial intelligence to provide real-time insights, enable better collaboration and unlock your supply chain’s full potential.
https://www.shippeo.com/
Using automation and artificial intelligence to provide real-time insights, enable better collaboration and unlock your supply chain’s full potential.
Article, Cyborg Trucking
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/karen-levy/
In her new book Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance, Karen Levy of Cornell University offers an in-depth view of the US long haul trucking industry, explaining why so few workers today are willing to take up what was once considered a respectable, skilled job. Decimated by waves of deregulation and union-busting since the 1970s, a once highly organized and well-paid workforce has fragmented over time, subjected to the intensifying discipline of markets and management.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/karen-levy/
In her new book Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance, Karen Levy of Cornell University offers an in-depth view of the US long haul trucking industry, explaining why so few workers today are willing to take up what was once considered a respectable, skilled job. Decimated by waves of deregulation and union-busting since the 1970s, a once highly organized and well-paid workforce has fragmented over time, subjected to the intensifying discipline of markets and management.
Contested Port
https://www.contestedports.com/
Over 90% of the world trade is carried by sea, with an oligopoly of alliances controlling its geography. While ports are becoming increasingly globalised and corporatized, their expansion demands more resources from local territories. When the dynamics of the logistics business disrupt people’s lives and places, conflicts emerge. Many communities of citizens living around ports are taking action, reclaiming the right to their territories. Contested Ports is a collaborative, non-exhaustive platform that documents conflicts between people and ports. It highlights community resistance strategies and is a hub to share resources that deepen critical engagement with the unsustainable effects of maritime logistics.
https://www.contestedports.com/
Over 90% of the world trade is carried by sea, with an oligopoly of alliances controlling its geography. While ports are becoming increasingly globalised and corporatized, their expansion demands more resources from local territories. When the dynamics of the logistics business disrupt people’s lives and places, conflicts emerge. Many communities of citizens living around ports are taking action, reclaiming the right to their territories. Contested Ports is a collaborative, non-exhaustive platform that documents conflicts between people and ports. It highlights community resistance strategies and is a hub to share resources that deepen critical engagement with the unsustainable effects of maritime logistics.
Landscapes of Trade
https://mertennefs.eu/landscapes-of-trade/
Logistiek is een onlosmakelijk deel van ons dagelijks leven, en een cruciaal ingrediënt van de circulaire economie. Tegelijkertijd groeit de kritiek omtrent de ‘verdozing’ van het landschap door grote distributiecentra, vaak gerelateerd aan e-commerce. De ruimtelijke voetafdruk en gemiddelde grootte van een loods zijn sinds 1980 verviervoudigd. Hierdoor neemt congestie van wegen toe en gaat de kwaliteit van leven achteruit. Deze kaart is een vereenvoudigde weergave van de ruimtelijke dataset die onderzoeker Merten Nefs gebruikt in zijn promotieonderzoek Landscapes of trade - een samenwerking van TU Delft, Erasmus School of Economics en Vereniging Deltametropool. De kaart is bedoeld voor iedereen die inzicht wil krijgen in het ruimtelijk patroon van logistiek in Nederland, en in het bijzonder de goederenvervoer corridor Oost/Zuidoost, de meest intensieve van Nederland.
https://mertennefs.eu/landscapes-of-trade/
Logistiek is een onlosmakelijk deel van ons dagelijks leven, en een cruciaal ingrediënt van de circulaire economie. Tegelijkertijd groeit de kritiek omtrent de ‘verdozing’ van het landschap door grote distributiecentra, vaak gerelateerd aan e-commerce. De ruimtelijke voetafdruk en gemiddelde grootte van een loods zijn sinds 1980 verviervoudigd. Hierdoor neemt congestie van wegen toe en gaat de kwaliteit van leven achteruit. Deze kaart is een vereenvoudigde weergave van de ruimtelijke dataset die onderzoeker Merten Nefs gebruikt in zijn promotieonderzoek Landscapes of trade - een samenwerking van TU Delft, Erasmus School of Economics en Vereniging Deltametropool. De kaart is bedoeld voor iedereen die inzicht wil krijgen in het ruimtelijk patroon van logistiek in Nederland, en in het bijzonder de goederenvervoer corridor Oost/Zuidoost, de meest intensieve van Nederland.
Is There a Mega Warehouse Near You?
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/map-mega-warehouses-near-you
The explosion of online shopping has led to a frenzy of warehouse construction in almost every region of the United States. To accommodate the flow of merchandise, Amazon and other online retailers have built what they call “fulfillment centers” in key hubs where zoning is welcoming (or nonexistent) and land is cheap. Today in the United States, there are 39,116 warehouses and distribution centers larger than 100,000 square feet, and they can be found in rural and suburban areas as well as urban ones. For nearby residents, the arrival of the mega warehouses means that traffic noise and air pollution bombard them at all times of the day, all year. But not everyone is impacted equally by the explosion of e-commerce. Often, the consequences fall hardest on communities of color. Use this map to view the distribution of mega-warehouses in your city or state.
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/map-mega-warehouses-near-you
The explosion of online shopping has led to a frenzy of warehouse construction in almost every region of the United States. To accommodate the flow of merchandise, Amazon and other online retailers have built what they call “fulfillment centers” in key hubs where zoning is welcoming (or nonexistent) and land is cheap. Today in the United States, there are 39,116 warehouses and distribution centers larger than 100,000 square feet, and they can be found in rural and suburban areas as well as urban ones. For nearby residents, the arrival of the mega warehouses means that traffic noise and air pollution bombard them at all times of the day, all year. But not everyone is impacted equally by the explosion of e-commerce. Often, the consequences fall hardest on communities of color. Use this map to view the distribution of mega-warehouses in your city or state.
Hypertrack, Company Website
https://hypertrack.com/
Pre-dispatch and post-dispatch APIs for logistics tech builders
https://hypertrack.com/
Pre-dispatch and post-dispatch APIs for logistics tech builders
Article: We Were Warned About the Ports
https://prospect.org/economy/we-were-warned-about-the-ports/
As the American economy became increasingly reliant on goods made in East Asia, so too did it rely on the only port that could readily receive them, L.A./Long Beach, which strained against its own limitations. The expansive nearby population of Southern California, once seen as an asset to finding cheap and ample labor to unload containers and drive trucks and staff warehouses, soon became a hindrance to expansion, as land around the ports was ringed with housing, making growth impossible. Instead, the ports began expanding out into the sea, with major terraforming initiatives to conjure more dock space from the ocean floor, a process that still couldn’t keep up with the strains of a growing e-commerce sector that relied overwhelmingly on Chinese manufacturing. (This led to a separate problem during the supply crunch: where to put the empty containers. Often they were dumped in residential neighborhoods, towering above modest homes and subdivisions.)
https://prospect.org/economy/we-were-warned-about-the-ports/
As the American economy became increasingly reliant on goods made in East Asia, so too did it rely on the only port that could readily receive them, L.A./Long Beach, which strained against its own limitations. The expansive nearby population of Southern California, once seen as an asset to finding cheap and ample labor to unload containers and drive trucks and staff warehouses, soon became a hindrance to expansion, as land around the ports was ringed with housing, making growth impossible. Instead, the ports began expanding out into the sea, with major terraforming initiatives to conjure more dock space from the ocean floor, a process that still couldn’t keep up with the strains of a growing e-commerce sector that relied overwhelmingly on Chinese manufacturing. (This led to a separate problem during the supply crunch: where to put the empty containers. Often they were dumped in residential neighborhoods, towering above modest homes and subdivisions.)
Article: A US Freight Rail Crisis Threatens More Supply Chain Chaos
https://www.wired.com/story/a-us-freight-rail-crisis-threatens-more-supply-chain-chaos/
Early this summer, farmers worried that millions of chickens in California’s Central Valley might soon peck each other to death. The birds were running perilously low on feed, which should have been delivered by Union Pacific Railroad from Midwestern corn producers. Foster Farms needed at least nine trainloads of corn each month to feed its tens of millions of chickens and turkeys, plus tens of thousands of dairy cows at its California facilities. But the trains weren’t showing up. Chickens can’t go long without eating—they become aggressive and turn to cannibalism—and if the feed didn’t arrive soon, the mega-flock would have to be euthanized.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-us-freight-rail-crisis-threatens-more-supply-chain-chaos/
Early this summer, farmers worried that millions of chickens in California’s Central Valley might soon peck each other to death. The birds were running perilously low on feed, which should have been delivered by Union Pacific Railroad from Midwestern corn producers. Foster Farms needed at least nine trainloads of corn each month to feed its tens of millions of chickens and turkeys, plus tens of thousands of dairy cows at its California facilities. But the trains weren’t showing up. Chickens can’t go long without eating—they become aggressive and turn to cannibalism—and if the feed didn’t arrive soon, the mega-flock would have to be euthanized.
Six Million TEU Container Surplus Now Exists
https://splash247.com/6m-teu-of-surplus-containers-now-exist/
The global pool of shipping containers increased by 13% to almost 50m teu in 2021, which was three times prior growth trend.
Drewry estimates that each container averaged 18.1 lifts in 2021 compared with 19.2 in 2020 and between 19.5 and 20.6 in the 2010s.
6m Teu of surplus containers now exist in the global equipment pool.
https://splash247.com/6m-teu-of-surplus-containers-now-exist/
The global pool of shipping containers increased by 13% to almost 50m teu in 2021, which was three times prior growth trend.
Drewry estimates that each container averaged 18.1 lifts in 2021 compared with 19.2 in 2020 and between 19.5 and 20.6 in the 2010s.
6m Teu of surplus containers now exist in the global equipment pool.
Turvo, Company Website
https://turvo.com
Collaborative transport Management System for a modern supply chain.
https://turvo.com
Collaborative transport Management System for a modern supply chain.
I Watched An 857-Hour Movie To Encounter Capitalism’s Extremes
https://readpassage.com/i-watched-an-857-hour-movie-to-encounter-capitalisms-extremes/
The sheer weight of time that it took just to ship a pedometer from a factory to a store was crushing. The scale of human effort needed for such an effort is often reported in easily digestible and abstracted metrics such as person-hours or costs in dollars, but to watch it gnaws at the soul. Going on the Logistics journey means encountering a staggering depiction of alienation, isolation and just how much capitalist social relations have distorted our ability to understand time and space. In Grundrisse, an unfinished text eventually published in 1939, Karl Marx first developed the idea that capitalist social relations have a way of compressing time and space. New technologies driven by the profit motive hasten the pace of everyday life until everything, from our labour to our love, is nothing but a blur.
https://readpassage.com/i-watched-an-857-hour-movie-to-encounter-capitalisms-extremes/
The sheer weight of time that it took just to ship a pedometer from a factory to a store was crushing. The scale of human effort needed for such an effort is often reported in easily digestible and abstracted metrics such as person-hours or costs in dollars, but to watch it gnaws at the soul. Going on the Logistics journey means encountering a staggering depiction of alienation, isolation and just how much capitalist social relations have distorted our ability to understand time and space. In Grundrisse, an unfinished text eventually published in 1939, Karl Marx first developed the idea that capitalist social relations have a way of compressing time and space. New technologies driven by the profit motive hasten the pace of everyday life until everything, from our labour to our love, is nothing but a blur.
Logistics, Video installation tracking the global flow of products
https://logisticsartproject.com/
Is it possible to get to the source of the things we consume? In 2008, we came up with the idea to follow the reverse journey of a product. Our case was a tiny plastic electronic product, a pedometer. The sort of anonymous clutter that everyday life is full of. Something that just is. We wanted to follow the pedometer from the store in Stockholm where it was bought to the factory in China where it was manufactured. But how? We started by googling the word “logistics”. Four years later we found ourselves on the largest container ship in the world on our way from Sweden to China. We had started the journey by truck to Middle Sweden, then by freight train to the port of Gothenburg, and after four weeks at sea, we filmed from a truck again, this time from the port of Shenzhen to a factory in Bao´an.
https://logisticsartproject.com/
Is it possible to get to the source of the things we consume? In 2008, we came up with the idea to follow the reverse journey of a product. Our case was a tiny plastic electronic product, a pedometer. The sort of anonymous clutter that everyday life is full of. Something that just is. We wanted to follow the pedometer from the store in Stockholm where it was bought to the factory in China where it was manufactured. But how? We started by googling the word “logistics”. Four years later we found ourselves on the largest container ship in the world on our way from Sweden to China. We had started the journey by truck to Middle Sweden, then by freight train to the port of Gothenburg, and after four weeks at sea, we filmed from a truck again, this time from the port of Shenzhen to a factory in Bao´an.
Flexe, Company Website
https://www.flexe.com/
The intersection of logistics and technology Flexe delivers technology-powered, omnichannel logistics programs. The world’s largest retailers and brands use Flexe to move fast—at scale—and with precision.
https://www.flexe.com/
The intersection of logistics and technology Flexe delivers technology-powered, omnichannel logistics programs. The world’s largest retailers and brands use Flexe to move fast—at scale—and with precision.
Conex Bird, Company Website
https://conexbird.com/
ConexBird offers a truly unique source of information on the structural condition of shipping containers based on vibration analysis and machine learning: the insight we provide allows you to make informed, reliable decisions for your intermodal logistics. Company Website.
https://conexbird.com/
ConexBird offers a truly unique source of information on the structural condition of shipping containers based on vibration analysis and machine learning: the insight we provide allows you to make informed, reliable decisions for your intermodal logistics. Company Website.
ShipAmax, company website
https://www.shipamax.com/
Data entry automation across your entire logistics organisation. Company website.
https://www.shipamax.com/
Data entry automation across your entire logistics organisation. Company website.
Windward. Company website
https://windward.ai/
Windward AI platform delivering actionable predictive intelligence for your risk management and maritime domain awareness needs. Company website.
https://windward.ai/
Windward AI platform delivering actionable predictive intelligence for your risk management and maritime domain awareness needs. Company website.
Sonar, Freight Forecasting
https://sonar.freightwaves.com/
Get actionable market insights with the fastest freight forecasting platform. Company website.
https://sonar.freightwaves.com/
Get actionable market insights with the fastest freight forecasting platform. Company website.
Book: The Geography of Transport Systems
https://transportgeography.org/
The mobility of passengers and freight is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, distributing goods, or supplying energy. Each movement has a purpose, an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, and a destination. Mobility is supported and driven by transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes, and terminals. They enable individuals, institutions, corporations, regions, and nations to interact and undertake economic, social, cultural, or political activities. Understanding how mobility is linked with the geography of transportation is the primary purpose of this textbook.
https://transportgeography.org/
The mobility of passengers and freight is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, distributing goods, or supplying energy. Each movement has a purpose, an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, and a destination. Mobility is supported and driven by transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes, and terminals. They enable individuals, institutions, corporations, regions, and nations to interact and undertake economic, social, cultural, or political activities. Understanding how mobility is linked with the geography of transportation is the primary purpose of this textbook.
Book: Ninety Percent of Everything
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety_Percent_of_Everything
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, And Food on Your Plate is a book by Rose George about the international shipping industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety_Percent_of_Everything
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, And Food on Your Plate is a book by Rose George about the international shipping industry.
Reveel, company website
https://reveelgroup.com/
Shipping Logistics and Operations Management Solutions Reveel is a professional shipping and logistics intelligence platform that uses machine learning to transform complex shipping data into simple ways. Company website
https://reveelgroup.com/
Shipping Logistics and Operations Management Solutions Reveel is a professional shipping and logistics intelligence platform that uses machine learning to transform complex shipping data into simple ways. Company website
ShipsGo, company website
https://shipsgo.com/
Container Tracking Reach live position of your shipment, company website
https://shipsgo.com/
Container Tracking Reach live position of your shipment, company website
BIC code lookup
https://www.bic-code.org/bic-codes/
The international register of identification codes for container owners was originated by the Bureau International des Containers (BIC) and has been published continually since 1970. It was subsequently adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1972, forming an essential part of the ISO 6346 standard : « Freight Containers – Coding, Identification and Marking ». This standard also describes technical markings such as size and type code, country code and various operational marks.
https://www.bic-code.org/bic-codes/
The international register of identification codes for container owners was originated by the Bureau International des Containers (BIC) and has been published continually since 1970. It was subsequently adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1972, forming an essential part of the ISO 6346 standard : « Freight Containers – Coding, Identification and Marking ». This standard also describes technical markings such as size and type code, country code and various operational marks.
Global Container Database
https://www.bic-boxtech.org/
Supply chain safety and efficiency through data visibility: A non-profit platform for container technical details
https://www.bic-boxtech.org/
Supply chain safety and efficiency through data visibility: A non-profit platform for container technical details
Maersk
https://www.maersk.com/
Logistics can be seen as complex but with a new perspective you will discover one of the most untapped potentials for business growth in this decade.
https://www.maersk.com/
Logistics can be seen as complex but with a new perspective you will discover one of the most untapped potentials for business growth in this decade.
Cabinet Magazine Special issue on Logistics (2012)
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/47/index.php
Early example of Supply Studies
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/47/index.php
Early example of Supply Studies
Shipsy
https://shipsy.io/
Shipsy’s AI-powered platform empowers global businesses to optimize, automate, track and simplify end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations. Company website.
https://shipsy.io/
Shipsy’s AI-powered platform empowers global businesses to optimize, automate, track and simplify end-to-end logistics and supply chain operations. Company website.
Article: Studying Logistics
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/02/logistics-industry-organizing-labor/
As the economy develops around a sprawling logistics industry, organizing workers in these sectors will be vital.
“Amateurs study strategy, professionals study logistics,” US Army General Omar Bradley famously said. Bradley’s declaration was of course an overstatement, but it was also a necessary correction. Logistics — the mobilization of vast resources and, most importantly, people — was the lifeblood of a winning military strategy. Without full and competent logistical support, any strategy, no matter how brilliant, will fail. It is a point worth remembering when discussing the importance of the logistics industry to the US economy. By Joe Allen.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/02/logistics-industry-organizing-labor/
As the economy develops around a sprawling logistics industry, organizing workers in these sectors will be vital.
“Amateurs study strategy, professionals study logistics,” US Army General Omar Bradley famously said. Bradley’s declaration was of course an overstatement, but it was also a necessary correction. Logistics — the mobilization of vast resources and, most importantly, people — was the lifeblood of a winning military strategy. Without full and competent logistical support, any strategy, no matter how brilliant, will fail. It is a point worth remembering when discussing the importance of the logistics industry to the US economy. By Joe Allen.
Book: The Rule of Logistics
https://books.google.nl/books/about/The_Rule_of_Logistics.html?id=Cil0DwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
Every time you wheel a shopping cart through one of Walmart’s more than 10,000 stores worldwide, or swipe your credit card or purchase something online, you enter a mind-boggling logistical regime. Even if you’ve never shopped at Walmart, its logistics have probably affected your life. The Rule of Logistics makes sense of its spatial and architectural ramifications by analyzing the stores, distribution centers, databases, and inventory practices of the world’s largest corporation.
https://books.google.nl/books/about/The_Rule_of_Logistics.html?id=Cil0DwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
Every time you wheel a shopping cart through one of Walmart’s more than 10,000 stores worldwide, or swipe your credit card or purchase something online, you enter a mind-boggling logistical regime. Even if you’ve never shopped at Walmart, its logistics have probably affected your life. The Rule of Logistics makes sense of its spatial and architectural ramifications by analyzing the stores, distribution centers, databases, and inventory practices of the world’s largest corporation.
Book: Cargomobilities, Moving Materials in a Global Age
https://books.google.nl/books/about/Cargomobilities.html?id=kqcGCAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the various systems which move objects about the world, examining their fateful implications for many people and places. Offering texts from key thinkers, the book presents case studies from around the world which report on efforts to establish, maintain, disrupt or transform the cargo-mobility systems which have grown so dramatically in scale and significance in recent decades.
https://books.google.nl/books/about/Cargomobilities.html?id=kqcGCAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the various systems which move objects about the world, examining their fateful implications for many people and places. Offering texts from key thinkers, the book presents case studies from around the world which report on efforts to establish, maintain, disrupt or transform the cargo-mobility systems which have grown so dramatically in scale and significance in recent decades.
Book: The Box
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/the-box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Mark Levinson.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/the-box
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Mark Levinson.
The Deadly Life Of Logistics
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-deadly-life-of-logistics-by-deborah-cowen
Deborah Cowen’s The Deadly Life of Logistics is the first of its kind: an original, imaginative, and critical theorisation of the centrality of violence to the modern logistics business. The book beautifully illuminates the conjuncture between capital accumulation and practices of security and securitisation on a global scale, zooming down to specific places and moments to better illustrate the inner workings of this conjuncture.
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-deadly-life-of-logistics-by-deborah-cowen
Deborah Cowen’s The Deadly Life of Logistics is the first of its kind: an original, imaginative, and critical theorisation of the centrality of violence to the modern logistics business. The book beautifully illuminates the conjuncture between capital accumulation and practices of security and securitisation on a global scale, zooming down to specific places and moments to better illustrate the inner workings of this conjuncture.
Giant container ships are ruining everything
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/big-boats-are-ruining-everything?p=430098
We can blame the Big Boat Era for many of our supply chain headaches.
In 2006, Maersk stunned the global shipping community with the introduction of Emma Maersk, a container ship that could carry nearly 15,000 twenty-foot equivalent units. (TEUs translate to about half of a standard forty-foot shipping container.)
Emma Maersk set off an “arms race” with its introduction. Ocean carriers ordered bigger and bigger ships, believing that they could reach economies of scale if they could jam all their shipments into one big boat instead of a few small ones.
Today, we’ve appeared to reach peak Big Boat Era. The Emma Maersk is now wimpy next to 2022’s true megaships. The largest container ships to be delivered this year have a maximum capacity of 24,000 TEUs. (This class of ship is named — I am not making this up — the “Ever Alot.” The Evergreen shipping company, the very same that blocked the Suez Canal last year, ordered the record-breaking ship.)
Each year brings a new, larger-than-ever megaship. The largest ship class of a given year has increased by 50% from 2012 to today, or nearly sixfold from 1981 to today.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/big-boats-are-ruining-everything?p=430098
We can blame the Big Boat Era for many of our supply chain headaches.
In 2006, Maersk stunned the global shipping community with the introduction of Emma Maersk, a container ship that could carry nearly 15,000 twenty-foot equivalent units. (TEUs translate to about half of a standard forty-foot shipping container.)
Emma Maersk set off an “arms race” with its introduction. Ocean carriers ordered bigger and bigger ships, believing that they could reach economies of scale if they could jam all their shipments into one big boat instead of a few small ones.
Today, we’ve appeared to reach peak Big Boat Era. The Emma Maersk is now wimpy next to 2022’s true megaships. The largest container ships to be delivered this year have a maximum capacity of 24,000 TEUs. (This class of ship is named — I am not making this up — the “Ever Alot.” The Evergreen shipping company, the very same that blocked the Suez Canal last year, ordered the record-breaking ship.)
Each year brings a new, larger-than-ever megaship. The largest ship class of a given year has increased by 50% from 2012 to today, or nearly sixfold from 1981 to today.
First use of the word logistics
https://www.supplychainopz.com/2013/05/history-of-logistics.html
The word "Logistics" began in January 1810 on the "Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany for January 1810"
https://www.supplychainopz.com/2013/05/history-of-logistics.html
The word "Logistics" began in January 1810 on the "Scots Magazine, and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany for January 1810"
Traceability as an integral part of supply chain logistics management: an analytical review
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06358
Purpose: Supply chain has become very complex today. There are multiple stakeholders at various points. All these stakeholders need to collaborate with each other in multiple directions for its effective and efficient management. The manufacturers need proper information and data about the product location, its processing history, raw materials, etc at each point so as to control the production process. Companies need to develop global and effective strategies to sustain in the competitive market. Logistics helps companies to implement the effectiveness across the business supply chain from source to destination to achieve their strategic goals. Traceability has become one of the integrated parts of the supply chain logistics management that track and trace the product's information in upstream and downstream at each point. All the stakeholders in the supply chain have different objectives to implement the traceability solution that depends on their role (e.g. manufacturers, distributers or wholesalers have their own role). The information generated and needed from all these actors are also different and are to be shared among all to run the supply chain smoothly. But the stakeholders don't want to share all the information with other stake holders which is a major challenge to be addressed in current traceability solutions. The purpose of this research is to conduct thorough study of the literatures available on the traceability solutions, finding the gaps and recommending our views to enhance the collaborations among the stakeholders in every point of the business supply
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06358
Purpose: Supply chain has become very complex today. There are multiple stakeholders at various points. All these stakeholders need to collaborate with each other in multiple directions for its effective and efficient management. The manufacturers need proper information and data about the product location, its processing history, raw materials, etc at each point so as to control the production process. Companies need to develop global and effective strategies to sustain in the competitive market. Logistics helps companies to implement the effectiveness across the business supply chain from source to destination to achieve their strategic goals. Traceability has become one of the integrated parts of the supply chain logistics management that track and trace the product's information in upstream and downstream at each point. All the stakeholders in the supply chain have different objectives to implement the traceability solution that depends on their role (e.g. manufacturers, distributers or wholesalers have their own role). The information generated and needed from all these actors are also different and are to be shared among all to run the supply chain smoothly. But the stakeholders don't want to share all the information with other stake holders which is a major challenge to be addressed in current traceability solutions. The purpose of this research is to conduct thorough study of the literatures available on the traceability solutions, finding the gaps and recommending our views to enhance the collaborations among the stakeholders in every point of the business supply
Article: The Nasty Logistics of Returning Your Too-Small Pants
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/free-returns-online-shopping/620169/
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/free-returns-online-shopping/620169/
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?