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CMA CGM to acquire NOL for $2.4b, bring APL into Ocean3 Alliance

Posted on December 7, 2015 | Leave a comment

Another example of supply chain integration in the ocean shipping – port arena. And more on the merger saga for 2015-2016.

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Source: CMA CGM to acquire NOL for $2.4b, bring APL into Ocean3 Alliance | AS Daily Newsletter | AS Daily | American Shipper

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Posted in Logistics, Ports, Shipping, Supply Chains

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 Braced for long and hard storm

Posted on December 1, 2015 | Leave a comment

TTelegraph Logohe Telegraph article paints a dim picture for the shipping business.

 

The global maritime industry is enduring hardships likely to affect it for ever

Source: Shipping industry braced for storm to blow long and hard – Telegraph

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Four fundamentals of workplace automation

Posted on December 1, 2015 | Leave a comment

An excellent article on automation. It will be specific activities in jobs that will be automated. So each of us will see large pieces of our jobs go away, not just low income work.  and much dangerous or low skill work will not go away since it cannot be automated well.   It has many ramifications for industries like ocean shipping. Will the captain’s and mate’s job disappear? No, but many of the things they do will, and jobs will need to be consolidated.

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As the automation of physical and knowledge work advances, many jobs will be redefined rather than eliminated—at least in the short term. A McKinsey Quarterly article.

Source: Four fundamentals of workplace automation

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Posted in Labor Economics, Logistics, Managerial Econ, My Research, Production Operations, Shipping, Strategy, Supply Chains, Trucking

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