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Helping You Go the Extra Mile for YOUR Customers
With its outstanding logistics platform, DB Schenker serves up an offering that allows companies to provide outstanding service to their own customers. The backbone of any successful business, good customer service translates into unique market advantages, access to new opportunities, and sustainability in even the most competitive business environments. During...
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The World’s Most Important Freight Port
Is it Rotterdam, or even Hamburg? No – the largest freight port in the world isn’t located anywhere in Europe. Several decades ago, the continent’s ports were outclassed by harbors in Asia. Singapore was long the ocean freight hub with the largest transshipment volumes, until it was overtaken by the...
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Panama’s Export Business Thrives
Representing nearly 50% of its total economic output, Panama’s exports to Latin American and North American countries include chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical machinery, and footwear. A Central American country stretching from Costa Rica to the west across to its southeastern border with South America’s Colombia, the Republic of Panama ships $11.2...
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DB Schenker Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month
From September 15 to October 15, the global logistics provider shines a spotlight on National Hispanic Heritage Month by celebrating the histories, cultures, and contributions of team members whose lineage came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America. Every year, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to...
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3 Tech Trends Reshaping the Logistics Industry
Three Key Trends in IoT, Robotics, and Wearables In the race to exceed customer expectations and capitalize on competitive differentiators, warehouses and distribution centers (DCs) are serving as strategic assets instead of just “places to store stuff.” By optimizing workflows and order picking/packing accuracy; improving inventory management; and better utilizing human...
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Keeping Up with Customer Demands in the Ever-Evolving Supply Chain
As global supply chains extend outward and become increasingly intertwined, keeping up with evolving customer expectations isn’t getting any easier. Here are four ways to do it. With Amazon’s Prime program alone shipping 5 billion items worldwide last year, the logistics and transportation industry is in unprecedented growth mode right now....
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4 Essential Luxury Brand Shipping Strategies
Here are four considerations luxury brand shippers should keep in mind when moving their goods. With the sales of personal luxury goods hitting a record high of $307 billion last year — up 5% over 2016 — well known luxury brands are all shipping a higher volume of goods worldwide. This...
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Take 5 – What Does the Connected Manufacturing Environment Look Like?
As the movement toward Industry 4.0 marches on, advanced technologies are playing a key role in helping companies attain new levels of automation, digitization, and data integration. Digital operations, or Industry 4.0, is on the agenda of manufacturing companies around the globe. Yet, according to PwC’s Global Digital Operations Study...
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The Port of Santos
Brazil has had its ups and downs in recent years. Now that the recession is finally over, what lies ahead for its busiest port? Brazil is big. The world’s 5th largest country by landmass is actually larger than the contiguous United States (the U.S. is the 4th largest thanks to...
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5 Ways to Digitize Your Supply Chain
Digitization can make your company’s global supply chain more efficient, cost-effective, and customer-focused while making sure it doesn’t fall behind the curve. Here’s how to do it. If you think tech-centric terms like the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and big data aren’t impacting your supply chain and...
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