WIN rebrands to Centerboard with focus on shipper-centric tech solutions

Leading logistics technology platform Web Integrated Network (WIN) has announced its new corporate name, Centerboard

The rebrand reflects the company’s mission to give shippers complete control over their supply chains as part of a growing slate of neutral, shipper-centric transportation and supply chain management solutions. This includes simple integration of real-time data and easily configurable solutions that operate within both legacy and future platforms.

“Centerboard simplifies...

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Viewpoints: 11 supply chain predictions for 2021

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By Rick Zullo, Equal Ventures

January is in the books. That leaves 11 more months in 2021, a year that hopefully will not be as disruptive to the global supply chain as the previous one, in which the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world economy to a standstill. Trade lanes shut down, production lines halted and products spoiled as companies around the world...

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Commentary: Why are investors looking at supply chain technologies in 2020?

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Since the coronavirus pandemic took hold earlier in 2020, supply chain has become a household word. Investors, like the public, have woken up to the fact that supply chains are the engine driving economic prosperity.

Almost perversely, supply chain is also the final frontier of tech-based efficiency optimization. Insiders joke (quite fairly, as it turns out)...

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DP World volumes decrease, portfolio increases

DP World reported Monday that 2020 first-half volumes were down 3.9% from the same period last year and that it had acquired a 60% stake in UNICO Logistics.

DP World Ltd. handled 33.9 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) across its global portfolio of container terminals in the first half of 2020, with gross container volumes decreasing 5.3% year-over-year on a reported basis and 3.9% on a like-for-like basis.

DP World said like-for-like container totals adjust for volumes at Posorja,...

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Career Tracks: Coast Guard, Crane Worldwide and Southeastern Freight

Rear Adm. Melissa Bert has been invested as judge advocate general and chief counsel of the U.S. Coast Guard

Bert is the first woman to hold that office.

Bert most recently was the Coast Guard’s director of governmental and public affairs. Previous positions included supporting U.S. engagement with the International Maritime Organization as chief of the Maritime and International Law Office and serving as captain of the port for southeastern Alaska.

Crane Worldwide Logistics

Jason Stretton has...

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