Transportation and Warehousing Industry

Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, CANSIM Table 282-0008, 2015 N/A denotes not-applicable. Employment share is obtained by dividing the number of employment in this industry by total employment in Alberta. According to Statistics Canada’s National Economic Accounts, the Transportation and Warehousing industry accounted for approximately 4.2% 6 of Alberta’s Gross Domestic Product in 2015, up from 4.1% in 2005. Its contribution to Alberta’s total employment increased from 6.0% in 2005 to 6.1% in 2015.

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Logistics Group International, Inc

L.G.I. offers specialized hauling and cargo transport between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Our experience in handling Mexico heavy haul projects and cross-country freight shipping is second to none. We have the capabilities of getting your cargo to its destination on time and within budget. No matter how small or how large the project, L.G.I. has the resources to ensure a quality transport solution every time.

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A Partnership of Trust: Dell Supply Chain Security

whitePaper | May 23, 2022

Information technology is creating a more connected world, and our dependence on technology for all aspects of our lives continues to increase. However, the advanced technology and sophisticated logistics networks that support this connectivity are facing unprecedented attacks, which risk undermining the trust on which growth, prosperity, and international relations rest. Complicating matters further, the complexity, sophistication and potential impact of attacks also have increased substantially over time.

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Optimizing Supply Chain Cost - Export and Import Logistics

whitePaper | February 6, 2020

India currently has cross border trade of US$ 844 billion comprising of exports of US$ 330 billion and imports of US$ 514 billion. India has set an ambitious target of 5% share in global exports (US$ 1 Trillion by 2025). Government of India’s policy initiatives such as ‘Make in India’ and the nation-wide implementation of GST system hold promise for improving India’s global competitiveness. Logistics industry would be a crucial enabler for achieving the envisioned growth potential - with better stakeholder coordination, enhanced infrastructure, improved operational efficiency and enhanced investments

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SAP Cloud Transport Management

whitePaper | August 11, 2022

SAP Cloud Transport Management service lets you manage software deliverables between accounts of different environments (such as Neo and Cloud Foundry), by transporting them across various runtimes. This includes application artifacts as well as their respective application-specific content. SAP Cloud Transport Management adds transparency to the audit trail of changes so that you get information about who performed which changes in your production environment, and when they did it. At the same time, SAP Cloud Transport Management enables a separation of concerns: For example, a developer of an application or of SAP Cloud content artifacts can trigger the transport of changes in a development subaccount, while the resulting import into the test, and production subaccount is handled by a central operations team

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Chemicals supply chain

whitePaper | December 9, 2019

The chemical industry has enjoyed strong and consistent performance over the last decade. The market is now being affected by new challenges, from increased global competition and changing customer requirements to disruptive new technologies while increased demand for sustainability, safety, and efficiency is changing not only the way companies work, but the products they produce.

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The Multi-Multi Supply Chain Problem

whitePaper | September 14, 2022

After the COVID shock of 2020, supply chain executives across multiple surveys indicated plans to invest in digital transformation. CEOs acknowledged broken supply chains and poorly managed IT networks and McKinsey & Company found that, over the course of a decade, the average organization was losing close to half of a year’s profits from supply chain disruptions.

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Blockchain In Transportation

whitePaper | January 19, 2023

Blockchain has already made an impact on various industries — it is poised to change or even replace the infrastructure of the financial services industry, and other industries like transportation can expect disruption as well. Blockchain technology, like many new technologies, can completely transform the way in which we conduct business. Blockchain technology has a number of benefits but an underlying component of it involves trust. Business transactions between two or more parties have already moved from paper to digital in many applications. By leveraging blockchain, an industry can enable secured, digitized transactions with approval granted mutually by participating parties, tracked in a common history, and requiring no central authority.

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Logistics Group International, Inc

L.G.I. offers specialized hauling and cargo transport between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Our experience in handling Mexico heavy haul projects and cross-country freight shipping is second to none. We have the capabilities of getting your cargo to its destination on time and within budget. No matter how small or how large the project, L.G.I. has the resources to ensure a quality transport solution every time.

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