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Supply chain visibility specialist FourKites has launched an Intelligent Control Tower, which it describes as a radical departure from backward-looking planning and reporting systems. Powered by AI, it can take autonomous action across complex supply chain workflows, in addition to creating insights, assessing risk, and making prescriptive recommendations.
It uses what FourKites describes as the most comprehensive network of real-time supply chain data, tracking over 3.2 million shipments daily in over ...
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Self-driving buses should soon be coming to the Belfast Harbour Estate. Officials from the harbour have visited automotive engineering partner HORIBA MIRA to observe testing of the Harlander, Northern Ireland’s first autonomous passenger vehicle, ahead of its delivery to Belfast in March.
Harlander is Northern Ireland’s ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo has a deal with airfreight unit load device (ULD) manager Unilode to digitalise its fleet of over 42,000 pieces of equipment. Under the largest ULD digitalisation programme ever undertaken by an airline, Qatar Airways will use Unilode’s capabilities to gain data-driven insights ...
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University of Cambridge spin-off company spinout RoboK has secured £1 million funding from UK Research and Innovation as part of the PALLETS consortium, which aims to lower AI adoption barriers in UK ports and warehouses.
PALLETS (Proactive AI-powered Solutions for Logistics Efficiency, Transparency and Safety), led ...
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HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) director of Customs Policy and Strategy, Alex Pienaar, explains what it means for business and how to prepare.
From 31 January, businesses moving goods from the European Union (EU) to Great Britain (GB) will need to comply with new UK safety ...
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Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) has launched an ultra-thin cargo tracking label. Only slightly larger than a credit card, the G+D Smart Label proposition has been jointly developed by G+D in conjunction with its hardware partner, Sensos for a range of applications. These include parcel delivery and shipping, ...
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On a scale of one to ten, the air cargo industry is currently at just three when it comes to adopting AI-assisted decision-making, said Cédric Millet, president of industry tech firm CargoTech.
He says that AI (artificial intelligence) is only sporadically used in different segments of ...
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Loadar, a company that automates and manages shipping processes for large companies has gained $4 million of investment from a consortium led by Frontline Ventures, with participation from Techstart Ventures, to expand operations to the US. The company, set up by Belfast-born Ciaran Doherty, says ...
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Röhlig Logistics has become the first forwarder to offer real-time ‘Live Position’ container tracking using shipping line Hapag-Lloyd’s technology. It says its customers can now track their containers precisely, similar to parcel tracking with real-time updates and specific location of containers.
Live Position uses devices attached ...
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Qatar Airways Cargo is offering online bookings with instant confirmations to interline partners through its Digital Lounge portal. Interline partners can now manage online bookings without having to contact local station staff, reducing the manual exchange of booking emails.
The Interline booking feature is currently being ...
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