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Employee Profile: Spotlighting Logistics Specialist Chief Marian Harville, U.S. Navy (Ret.)

3BL Media

In October of 2018, Harville retired as a Logistics Specialist Chief after serving 24 years and 10 months. After retiring from the Navy, Harville took a position at a non-profit to continue her passion for serving others while utilizing the skills she gained as a Logistics Specialist Chief.

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Logistics Emissions Management Platform Shipzero Raises €8 Million

ESG Today

Green logistics-focused startup shipzero announced today that it has raised €8 million (USD$8.7 Schedlbauer said: “We experience a high level of interest in our product since shippers and logistics service providers need reliable data on their emissions to remain competitive.

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Soplaya clinches €3.5 million to boost local food logistics in Italy

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 16 – Soplaya launched in 2018 to connect local food producers to restaurant chefs. The company built a platform to streamline the business transaction as well as a logistics operation to handle collection, warehousing and delivery in the northern regions of Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto. Then COVID hit.

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Etsy takes aim at shipping and packaging in setting 2030 net-zero goal

GreenBiz

From 2018 to 2020, our energy use for computing decreased by 23 percent. We're gonna double down on advocating for the decarbonization of the logistics sector. Shipping & Logistics. And that is largely thanks to the efficiency of Google Cloud Platform compared to what we have in our own colocated data centers,” Mozen said. “But

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BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea

GreenBiz

In 2018 the International Maritime Organization (IMO) — the UN-affiliated body which oversees the global shipping sector — agreed on a draft target to cut global emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 compared to 2008, alongside targets to cut the average carbon intensity by at least 40 percent by 2030. Shipping & Logistics.

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Reusable packaging provides untapped payoffs for business

GreenBiz

In 2018, 40 percent of the 360 million tonnes of plastics produced globally were converted to packaging. They require close collaboration with waste management players, cleaning facilities and logistics companies. If not, you were probably born during the plastics-era, which began about 50 years ago. Today, plastic has taken over.

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Daniel Burrus’ Top 20 Technology-Driven Hard Trends Shaping 2018 and Beyond

Daniel Burrus

In addition to the rapid growth of virtual storage, virtualization of processing power will continue to grow, allowing mobile devices to access supercomputer capabilities and apply them to processes such as purchasing and logistics. 6 Virtualization of Processes and Services (On-Demand Services). 14 Mobile Banking and Payments.