OMNICHANNEL RETAILERS DELIVERING FROM THE ENDLESS AISLE

June 8, 2019

Omnichannel retail strategies emerged as a response to the growing market share of eCommerce giants. Retailers started realizing they didn’t have a “retail problem” (the retail industry continues to grow), they had a real estate problem. What to do with all of these brick-andmortar stores when increasingly consumers are buying goods online? The answer: turn them into fulfillment centers where consumers can look at goods and then buy them online, or buy them online and pick them up and return them to stores. Or get them shipped the same day from the store to their home no matter how they bought them.

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whitePaper | March 16, 2022

What is lights-out warehousing? The simple answer is a facility without people. One that relies entirely on automated equipment, to the point that no manual touches are necessary. With no employees required on the floor, operations do not need to turn the lights on, hence the term “lights-out warehousing.”

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whitePaper | June 6, 2022

The daily Freightos Baltic Exchange Container Index (FBX) provides the market with a credible and fully transparent reference point. It is based on the world’s largest global database of multimodal freight rates using realtime data from logistical providers and overseen by an institution whose information already underpins billions of dollars-worth of physical and forward freight contracts in the dry bulk, oil and gas transportation markets.

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whitePaper | November 24, 2022

As brand owners, product developers or packaging designers for consumer goods, sustainability is becoming an essential dimension. It is also an opportunity for entrepreneurial innovation. Now available in most smartphones, NFC technology connects products to the digital world while enabling innovative sustainability initiatives. It uniquely allows batteryless, wireless communication using one single electronic component: the chip.

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TELEMATICS IN THE CANADIAN TRUCKING INDUSTRY

whitePaper | December 31, 2019

This study builds on a previous project in which we examined the potential for telematics systems to streamline the data collection and reporting methods used in the SmartWay program. Here, we delve deeper into various aspects of the telematics industry in the heavy-duty trucking sector in Canada. This study catalogs the products and services available from leading telematics providers for trucking companies and discusses the ways fleets leverage the systems to improve their overall efficiency and safety

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whitePaper | February 9, 2022

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Founded in 1978, we pioneered airline door-to-door chauffeuring alongside companies such as Virgin Atlantic. Today, over 30 years since our first journey, we have grown to become one of the world’s leading ground transport providers that consistently delivers a highly reliable first class service.

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