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Border agency faces lawsuit after detaining cargo shipments

Canadian Manufacturing

Canada’s border agency says it has detained about 50 shipments of cargo over suspicions they were products of forced labour under rules introduced in 2020 — but only one was eventually determined to be in breach of the ban. ” It said that since 2021, “approximately 50 shipments have been intercepted and assessed.”

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Burgeoning Freight and Logistics Demands to Fuel Recovery of China’s Commercial Truck Industry

Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

in 2020 to 28.2% To accelerate uptake, market stakeholders will need to focus on developing core capabilities, strengthening supply chains, enhancing charging infrastructure, and expanding their application base. The heavy-duty trucks segment was particularly hard hit, registering a YoY decrease of 51.8%

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Nature-inspired tech to move transport towards net-zero

E&T

million in 2020 to 11.2 The team uses a battery of algorithms to find the most efficient solutions for problems such as where to best place a wind farm, or schedule vessels in a complex supply chain. Deloitte forecasts their numbers will grow from 2.5 million in 2025 and 31.1 million by 2030.

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Dockworkers threaten to strike at key U.S. ports over automation and pay

Fastener News Desk

1, a move that would shut down ports that handle about half the nation’s cargo from ships. Heavier vehicular traffic would be likely at key points around the country as cargo was diverted to West Coast ports, where workers belong to a different union not involved in the strike. East and Gulf Coasts are threatening to strike on Oct.

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Power and Innovation for the Canadian Surface Combatant

MEM

It offers countless possibilities for ship operators – from storage of all types of cargo, containerised mission modules, to hydraulic robotic arms that will efficiently and safely deploy and retrieve manned/unmanned surface vessels, eliminating the need for a dockside crane.

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Negotiations to end a strike at B.C.’s ports have stopped

Canadian Manufacturing

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada, representing thousands of workers who load and unload cargo at terminals at more than 30 B.C. billion to Canada’s GDP while handling roughly 16 per cent of the country’s total traded goods — amounting to $180 billion in 2020.

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India’s EV Revolution: E2W and E3W show the way

Dinesh Mishra

Global EV sales grew 38 percent in 2020, and then more than doubled the following year. The interview feature explores the main factors that are shaping India’s EV present and future growth, such as manufacturing and supply chain, the charging infrastructure, and most important of all, the compelling need for the switch to EVs.