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DHL to pay $8.7M to settle EEOC race discrimination lawsuit

Delivery company DHL has agreed to pay $8.7 million to settle a class race discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

DHL, a transport and logistics provider, will pay the settlement to a group of 83 Black employees who were subjected to discrimination because of their race, the EEOC announced in April. The company will also be subjected to the oversight of former EEOC Commissioner Leslie Silverman to monitor compliance with the consent decree.

“In this...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dhl-to-pay-8-7m-to-settle-eeoc-race-discrimination-lawsuit

235 Elisabeth Munck af Rosenschöld, Head of Sustainability, IKEA Supply Chain Operations

Sustainability is truly about people!

Listen to Elisabeth Munck, Head of Sustainability at IKEA Supply Chain Operations. She is passionate about sustainability and has been working on the sustainability agenda in Supply Chain Operations since 2016.
IKEA released their Supply Chain Operations Decarb Catalogue this week. Here is the link if you want to read more.

Elisabeth discusses IWAY– the IKEA way of Responsibly Procuring Products, Services, Materials and Components. It’s ten principles for a...

https://shippingpodcast.com/235-elisabeth-munck-af-rosenschold-head-of-sustainability-ikea-supply-chain-operations/

Import demand growth robust leading into Lunar New Year

Chart of the Week: Inbound Ocean TEUs Volume Index – Port of Los Angeles, Port of Savannah, Port of New York/New Jersey, Port of Long Beach  SONAR: IOTI.USLAX, IOTI.USSAV, IOTI.USNYC, IOTI.USLGB

Bookings for twenty-foot equivalent units (IOTI) spiked well above last year’s levels for freight bound for the nation’s top four port complexes heading into Chinese New Year (CNY). 

The IOTI is an index that measures container volumes being booked by departure date from the port of origin, about 15-30...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/import-demand-growth-robust-leading-into-lunar-new-year

[FAQ] Climate Change Can Affect Shipping?

Credit: Julius Silver/Pexels

The effects of global climate change are broad and impact everyone, as well as Earth’s natural systems. Much has been written about the major impacts of climate change. Effects such as rising global surface temperatures, higher sea levels, longer and more intense heat waves, melting glaciers and ice sheets, polar sea ice loss, extreme weather and climate events, and impacts on animal habitats are well-documented and in the news regularly. This recent NASA Climate...

https://mfame.guru/faq-climate-change-can-affect-shipping/

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