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Freight Forwarding: Steering the Course Towards a Greener, Smarter Logistics Future

3BL Media

Within the supply chain ecosystem, freight forwarders will increasingly play a pivotal role in driving sustainability, digitalization, and resilience across the industry.” Multimodal transportation, combining different methods like trains, trucks, and ships, is also gaining traction for its efficiency and reduced emissions.

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Sustainable infrastructure investments can aid the post-COVID recovery

GreenBiz

Artificial intelligence (AI), advanced data analytics, fintech, cloud computing, 5G, new materials, renewable energy technology and 3D printing are just a few innovations changing the global infrastructure landscape. They help optimize the planning and operation of infrastructure by providing valuable insights in near-real-time.

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COVID-19 pandemic shines spotlight on flexible, digital freight

GreenBiz

Analytics and artificial intelligence are helping solve them. There have generally been three waves of logistics problems that have emerged alongside the novel coronavirus outbreak.

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Alibaba Cloud Launches Carbon Management Solution - Energy Expert

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has announced the global launch of Energy Expert, a sustainability platform to help customers worldwide measure, analyze and manage the carbon emissions of their business activities and products. SOURCE: Alibaba Group. View original content here.

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Resilience, Agility, and Sustainability: The New Pillars of Future-Proof Supply Chains

3BL Media

By leveraging digital tools like predictive analytics, companies can anticipate potential risks and adjust their operations proactively. It’s about rethinking how products are made, shipped, and consumed. Many organizations still lack real-time insight into their supply chains, particularly beyond their tier-one suppliers.

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A tidal wave of new carbon emissions data soon will be upon us

GreenBiz

Unlike other approaches to monitoring emissions, it plans to attribute emissions to specific sources, whether these be individual factories, ships, power plants or a range of other facilities and all its data will be placed in the public domain.

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For High-Tech Supply Chains, CO2 Emission Tracking Is Sustainable Business Currency

3BL Media

It begins with the sourcing of raw materials that are transported to the plant, stored in a warehouse, and productized into the manufacturing of the laptop, which is shipped to customers who use it before, hopefully, recycling it for another use. Consider the carbon footprint of a laptop.