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Could glass bubbles be the key to the success of future LH2 carriers?

Hydrogen technology is seen as key to the future of clean energy and shipbuilders and designers are increasingly turning their attention to creating the liquid hydrogen (LH2) carriers that will be essential to any future hydrogen economy. Those shipbuilders include HD Hyundai Korea Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (KSOE) — and 3M glass bubbles could be part of its future LH2 carriers

Think of 3M (NYSE:MMM) and you may think Scotch Tape and Post-Its, but there’s a lot more to the company than...

https://www.marinelog.com/technology/could-glass-bubbles-be-the-key-to-the-success-of-future-lh2-carriers/

FourKites enhances supply chain visibility with Data Connector

The modern supply chain is a data game — the more data a company has, the better it’s able to avoid and react to local and global disruptions.

The problem for many companies, though, is access to that data.

On Thursday, supply chain visibility platform FourKites launched a product designed to share its catalog of insights more easily. The new offering, Data Connector, allows customers to leverage the firm’s data directly through their own business intelligence systems, whereas in the past they...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fourkites-enhances-supply-chain-visibility-with-data-connector

Panel: Biden needs to consolidate trade ties across North America

President-elect Joe Biden must build a common agenda and set up policies that simplify trade among the United States, Canada and Latin America, according to Shunko Rojas, Argentina’s former undersecretary for international trade.

“Next year we have the Summit of the Americas [hosted by the U.S.]; it will provide a unique opportunity for the Biden-Harris administration to build a constructive and common agenda for the region,” Rojas said. “They can discuss and agree upon key guiding principles,...

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