Another merger in the US 3PL space.
Hong Kong’s largest 3PL is breaking into the US market with the acquisition of freight forwarder Apex Maritime
Source: Kerry Logistics acquires US forwarder and transpacific specialist Apex Maritime – The Loadstar
Posted in Ports, Shipping, Supply Chains
Tagged intermodal, Logistics, mergers, ports, Shipping
Here is an example of the difficulty of building a major infrastructure improvement, in this case, a rail line from China to Thailand and thence to Singapore. Who’s got the money?
The answer is no one; and so they can’t agree on terms that advantage all of them fairly. One interesting factor is land use rights. Thailand and Laos will not give the Chinese land development rights on each side of the rail line. Those were expected to help the Chinese pay for the route. I think those countries are right to retain their sovereignty over the land.
Source: On southwestern fringe, China’s Silk Road ambitions face obstacles | Reuters
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Posted in Rail, Strategy, Supply Chains
Tagged China, container shipping, Silk Road
A straightforward introduction to the R statistical and programming language, emphasizing its power in predictive analytics and machine learning.
Introduction R is a powerful language used widely for data analysis and statistical computing. It was developed in early 90s. Since then, endless efforts have been made to improve R’s user interface. The journey of R language from a rudimentary text editor to interactive R Studio and more recently Jupyter Notebooks has engaged many data science communities
Source: A Complete Tutorial to learn Data Science in R from Scratch
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