Making logistics more sustainable
Dr Raymon Krishnan, president of the Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society, sheds light on how the logistics landscape is changing and what can be done to future-proof its processes.
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IN THE 1950s, the standardisation of shipping containers coupled with purpose-built container vessels modernised freighting. Shipping schedules were significantly shortened and congestion reduced, and this changed the way logistics and supply-chain companies operated.
However, doing away with manual sorting led to a displacement of dock workers. In a sense, it foreshadowed the tech disruptions that were to later affect logistics and supply chains around the world.
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