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Top 3 Truck Fleet Management Platforms for Logistics Businesses in 2026
Top 3 Truck Fleet Management Platforms for Logistics Businesses in 2026 Running a trucking operation without the right Truck Fleet Management Platforms is a bit like driving cross-country without GPS. You might get there, but you’ll waste time, money, and patience along the way. Between keepin...
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John Deere Expands Compact Grading with SmartGrade Box Blades
John Deere Expands Compact Grading with SmartGrade Box Blades John Deere has introduced two SmartGrade box blade attachments for its 333 and 335 P-Tier compact track loaders, bringing integrated grade control to finish grading applications without requiring a dedicated grading machine. The BX07 and...
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Bouygues Construction Opens Scale One to Test Innovation Under Real Site Conditions
Bouygues Construction Opens Scale One to Test Innovation Under Real Site Conditions Bouygues Construction has opened a 2,500 mยฒ innovation facility at Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris, where new materials, robotic equipment and construction techniques can be tested at full scale before being introduce...
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BYD SHARK Pickup Truck DMO Secures Five-Star Euro NCAP Safety Rating
BYD SHARK Pickup Truck DMO Secures Five-Star Euro NCAP Safety Rating BYDโs SHARK DMO plug-in hybrid pick-up has secured a five-star Euro NCAP safety rating, adding independently assessed crash protection and driver-assistance performance to a vehicle designed to compete in the European pick-up marke...
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STRABAG Consortium Selected for โฌ2.9 Billion Czech D35 Motorway PPP
STRABAG Consortium Selected for โฌ2.9 Billion Czech D35 Motorway PPP A consortium comprising STRABAG, Cintra, Budimex and Invesis has been selected as preferred bidder for the Czech Republic’s largest transport public-private partnership, covering approximately 52 kilometres of the D35 motorway...
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Volvo VNX Brings Heavy-Haul Capability to North America’s Construction Fleets
Volvo VNX Brings Heavy-Haul Capability to North America’s Construction Fleets Volvo Trucks has introduced the all-new Volvo VNX for North American construction, vocational and heavy-haul operations, with gross combination weight ratings reaching 200,000 lb (90.7 tonnes), a range of specialist...
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Ritchie Bros. Expands Orlando Heavy Equipment Auction to Six Days for 2027
Ritchie Bros. Expands Orlando Heavy Equipment Auction to Six Days for 2027 Ritchie Bros. will extend its annual February Orlando heavy equipment auction from five to six days in 2027, following an event that attracted more than 19,500 registered bidders from over 80 countries. The expanded programme...
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NEURA Robotics Brings Touch, Sound and Memory to Physical AI
NEURA Robotics Brings Touch, Sound and Memory to Physical AI A robot can see a connector entering a socket without knowing whether it has locked into place. It can recognise an object but lose sight of it while carrying out an operation. These limitations are among the problems German developer NEUR...
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Rowan Engineers Develop Reverse-Time Imaging for 3D Printed Concrete
Rowan Engineers Develop Reverse-Time Imaging for 3D Printed Concrete A 3D concrete printer can build a wall layer by layer, but every new deposit adds weight to material that has yet to develop its full strength. If the lower layers deform excessively, an otherwise successful printing operation can...
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SHOWA Introduces Recycled Microfibre Gloves for Industrial Hand Protection
SHOWA Introduces Recycled Microfibre Gloves for Industrial Hand Protection Protective glove manufacturer SHOWA has introduced the RECYCLED MFT PRO GP381E, incorporating more than 80% recycled fibres in its knitted liner while retaining the handling characteristics of its established MFT PRO range. D...
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The Humanoid Economy: From Physical AI to Industrial Reality
The Humanoid Economy: From Physical AI to Industrial Reality At BMW’s Spartanburg plant in South Carolina, a humanoid robot spent approximately 1,250 operating hours handling sheet metal components for vehicle production. During a ten-month pilot in 2025, Figure 02 moved more than 90,000 parts...
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Seequent Brings AI Geological Analysis to Drill Core Photography
Seequent Brings AI Geological Analysis to Drill Core Photography Six hundred metres of drill core photography, analysed in two minutes. That is the processing speed Seequent reports for its new AI-powered Imago image analysis system, which converts photographs of recovered rock into structured geolo...
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ADB Backs $350m Upgrade of Azerbaijan’s North-South Railway Corridor
ADB Backs $350m Upgrade of Azerbaijan’s North-South Railway Corridor Azerbaijan’s railway connection with Russia is set for a major technical overhaul following the Asian Development Bank’s approval of a $350 million loan to modernise 192 kilometres of double-track railway between...
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Colorbiotics GEM Vision Brings Laser Measurement to Aggregate Conveyors
Colorbiotics GEM Vision Brings Laser Measurement to Aggregate Conveyors Measuring the volume of material travelling along a conveyor belt sounds straightforward until the flow becomes irregular. Mulch, wood chips and aggregates rarely move in uniform quantities, and gaps between loads, changing belt...
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Intel Targets AI Inference Economics with New GPU D-Series and Xeon Infrastructure
Intel Targets AI Inference Economics with New GPU D-Series and Xeon Infrastructure Intel has detailed a new AI accelerator design supporting up to 480 GB of memory, targeting one of the increasingly expensive challenges facing data centre operators: running large artificial intelligence models effic...
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Nepal Plans Elevated Wildlife Highway in $305.75 Million Road Upgrade
Nepal Plans Elevated Wildlife Highway in $305.75 Million Road Upgrade Nepal is preparing to carry a four-lane highway above an important wildlife corridor as part of a $305.75 million road improvement programme financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The investment will upgrade two of the coun...
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7 Best Drone Mapping Software for Solar Farms in 2026
7 Best Drone Mapping Software for Solar Farms in 2026 A solar farm can cover hundreds or even thousands of acres, yet some of its most expensive problems may begin in an area smaller than a single module. A misaligned tracker row propagates construction errors across an entire section. A hotspot ind...
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Emdoor’s Growing Industrial Computing Ambitions
Emdoor’s Growing Industrial Computing Ambitions Emdoor Information reported revenue of RMB 4.583 billion in 2025, up 44.15% on the previous year, as the Chinese electronics manufacturer continued developing its international industrial computing business. Behind those figures is a manufacturin...
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Sydney Build Expo 2027 Introduces Six Specialist Zones for Tenth Anniversary
Sydney Build Expo 2027 Introduces Six Specialist Zones for Tenth Anniversary Sydney Build Expo will return to the International Convention Centre (ICC Sydney) on 28 and 29 April 2027, celebrating its tenth anniversary with six specialist exhibition zones covering housing, digital construction, archi...
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Why Construction Machines Look the Way They Do
Why Construction Machines Look the Way They Do In 1885, an American road inspector named J.D. Adams developed an improvement to the horse-drawn grader that remains recognisable on modern machines. Rather than keeping the front wheels rigidly upright, Adams devised a mechanism that allowed them to le...
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WJ Sunstone Consolidates Highway Technology Portfolio and Expands UK Operations
WJ Sunstone Consolidates Highway Technology Portfolio and Expands UK Operations WJ Sunstone has brought WJ Group’s intelligent transport systems operations under a single identity, reorganising its highway technology portfolio and opening a new dedicated facility near Stoke-on-Trent. The chang...
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Sonic Impact Scholarship Supports the Next Generation of Skilled Technicians
Sonic Impact Scholarship Supports the Next Generation of Skilled Technicians Five aspiring technicians will receive professional toolsets and toolboxes with listed retail values of up to $9,050 under the autumn round of Sonic Tools USA’s Impact Scholarship Program, with applications remaining...
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JAPAN BUILD Tokyo 2026 Opens Doors to Japan’s Construction Technology Market
JAPAN BUILD Tokyo 2026 Opens Doors to Japan’s Construction Technology Market Japan’s construction and property sectors will come together at Tokyo Big Sight this December, when JAPAN BUILD Tokyo returns with 11 specialist exhibitions and an anticipated 35,000 visitor attendances. For ove...
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EVS Morocco 2026 Brings Global Electric Mobility Industry to Casablanca
EVS Morocco 2026 Brings Global Electric Mobility Industry to Casablanca Morocco’s established automotive manufacturing industry is providing an increasingly attractive base for electric vehicle and battery suppliers looking to serve European and African markets. That industrial ambition will b...
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Africaโs Green Economy Summit 2027 Targets US$2 Billion Investment Pipeline
Africaโs Green Economy Summit 2027 Targets US$2 Billion Investment Pipeline More than US$2 billion in proposed green economy investments will be presented to potential financiers in Cape Town next February, as Africaโs Green Economy Summit prepares to bring together over 40 projects spanning renewab...
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Doka 360 Brings Formwork Logistics and Material Management into One Digital Platform
Doka 360 Brings Formwork Logistics and Material Management into One Digital Platform Keeping track of formwork on a busy construction project can be surprisingly complicated. Panels, props and supporting equipment arrive in successive deliveries, move between work areas and eventually need to be cou...
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Bathymetric Lidar Reveals the Hidden Landscape of Utah’s Great Salt Lake
Bathymetric Lidar Reveals the Hidden Landscape of Utah’s Great Salt Lake Beneath the shallow, increasingly unpredictable waters of Utah’s Great Salt Lake lies a landscape that scientists are beginning to map in unprecedented detail. Submerged microbialite formations, geological structure...
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ASTM Seeks Research to Advance Hemp-Lime Construction Standards
ASTM Seeks Research to Advance Hemp-Lime Construction Standards Hemp-lime has been used in building construction for decades, yet questions remain over how consistently its performance can be measured and compared. ASTM International is now inviting researchers to examine those questions, with a new...
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Robotics and AI Bring Self-Driving Scientific Laboratories Closer to Reality
Robotics and AI Bring Self-Driving Scientific Laboratories Closer to Reality At one of the world’s most advanced scientific research facilities, an X-ray beam can be adjusted with extraordinary precision and detectors can generate more than a terabyte of data every second. Yet preparing an exp...
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RB Global Expects Stronger Marketplace Trading as Equipment Sales Grow
RB Global Expects Stronger Marketplace Trading as Equipment Sales Grow Billions of dollars’ worth of construction machinery, commercial vehicles and industrial assets change hands through RB Global’s marketplaces every year, providing a substantial secondary market for equipment that may...
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Intel Joins International Road Federation as AI Moves into Road Infrastructure
Intel Joins International Road Federation as AI Moves into Road Infrastructure Intel has joined the International Road Federation (IRF Global), bringing one of the world’s leading semiconductor companies into an international network of road authorities, engineering organisations and transport...
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Making Hand Protection Work for Road Crews
Making Hand Protection Work for Road Crews Highway construction brings together a wide range of activities, often within the same working day. A crew installing steel safety barriers may also be handling concrete components, repairing drainage or preparing equipment for resurfacing, moving between m...
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Bentley’s 2026 Infrastructure Awards Spotlight Digital Engineering Around the World
Bentley’s 2026 Infrastructure Awards Spotlight Digital Engineering Around the World More than 300 infrastructure projects from 53 countries were nominated for Bentley Systems‘ 2026 Year in Infrastructure Awards, with 12 category winners announced at the company’s annual event in Si...
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INRIX Parking Scorecard Reveals a Transatlantic Divide in Urban Parking
INRIX Parking Scorecard Reveals a Transatlantic Divide in Urban Parking Drivers searching for on-street parking in North American city centres have a 59% probability of finding an available space, compared with 41% in Europe, according to the first INRIX Parking Scorecard. The international comparis...
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KGM Introduces Two-Seat Musso Commercial Pick-Up Following UK Tax Changes
KGM Introduces Two-Seat Musso Commercial Pick-Up Following UK Tax Changes KGM Motors UK has introduced two-seat commercial versions of its Musso Rebel and Saracen pick-ups, offering construction businesses, agricultural operators and trade contractors an alternative to conventional double-cab models...
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Comdata MAX Connects Fuel Purchasing with Freight Factoring
Comdata MAX Connects Fuel Purchasing with Freight Factoring For a small trucking business, buying diesel and waiting to be paid for completed loads pull cash in opposite directions. Fuel has to be paid for continuously, while freight invoices can remain outstanding for weeks. Comdata is trying to br...
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C-MAP Charts a Course into Enovation Controlsโ Connected Helm
C-MAP Charts a Course into Enovation Controlsโ Connected Helm Marine electronics are increasingly becoming part of a connected digital environment that follows the user beyond the helm. Enovation Controls is taking another step in that direction by integrating C-MAP’s X-generation marine carto...
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When Infrastructure Starts Changing the Weather
When Infrastructure Starts Changing the Weather When China’s Three Gorges Reservoir filled, around 40 cubic kilometres of water were moved into a new position on the surface of the Earth. It was enough for scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to calculate that the redistributio...
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From Sydney Harbour to the South Pacific: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
From Sydney Harbour to the South Pacific: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific Forty-five metres beneath a Sydney sports ground, two machines weighing 4,350 tonnes each are driving towards the harbour. Patyegarang and Barangaroo are 15.7 metres in diame...
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From Tokyo to Ulaanbaatar: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across East Asia
From Tokyo to Ulaanbaatar: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across East Asia Beneath central Tokyo, a heavily used section of urban expressway is being rebuilt while the transport system around it continues operating. The 1.8 km Nihonbashi section of the Metropolitan Expressway carries around 100...
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From the Himalayas to the Yangtze: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across China
From the Himalayas to the Yangtze: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across China On the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo, construction has begun on a hydropower project expected to cost around RMB 1.2 trillion.ย The development will comprise five cascade hydropower stations in Xizang, where the...
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From the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across South Asia
From the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across South Asia Beneath the waters of Thane Creek, two enormous tunnelling machines are working towards Mumbai as part of the 21 km underground section of India’s Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail corridor. Sixteen ki...
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From the Caspian to the Tian Shan: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Central Asia
From the Caspian to the Tian Shan: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Central Asia Deep beneath the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, excavation is under way on 29 railway tunnels. Eight extend for more than five kilometres. Three will exceed 12 kilometres. Together, the tunnels will account for more...
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From the Hudson to Mexico: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across North America
From the Hudson to Mexico: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across North America At the end of September 2026, a machine weighing 1,680 tonnes began cutting into the Palisades west of Manhattan. More than 500 ft long and carrying a cutterhead almost 29 ft in diameter, the tunnel boring machine is...
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From the Baltic to the Alps: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Europe
From the Baltic to the Alps: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Europe Deep beneath the Alps in July 2026, excavation crews working from Austria and Italy broke through the final rock separating the two main tubes of the Brenner Base Tunnel at the national border. A month later, tunnel borin...
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From Brazil to Bogotรก: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Latin America
From Brazil to Bogotรก: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Latin America Latin America’s geography has always imposed a price on movement. The Andes divide the continent from north to south. The Amazon and other great river systems make conventional transport infrastructure difficult ac...
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From Lobito to Lagos: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Africa
From Lobito to Lagos: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Africa Across Africa, some of the continent’s most consequential infrastructure projects are doing more than reducing journey times. They are changing where roads and railways lead. In Southern and Central Africa, new investment...
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From Manila to Singapore: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Southeast Asia
From Manila to Singapore: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Southeast Asia Across Southeast Asia, some of the region’s largest infrastructure projects are overcoming geography that has always complicated movement. The Philippines is building a 147 km commuter railway through one of th...
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From Dubai to Marrakech: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across MENA
From Dubai to Marrakech: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across MENA Across the Middle East and North Africa, some of the most consequential transport projects now taking shape are disappearing beneath the surface. Dubai is simultaneously boring metro tunnels, preparing a small-diameter undergro...
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From Horsepower to Kilowatts – The Evolution of Construction Machinery
From Horsepower to Kilowatts – The Evolution of Construction Machinery In 1895, the British Army’s statutory allowance for each horse placed in civilian quarters was 10 lb of oats, 12 lb of hay and 8 lb of straw every day. A large working stable therefore consumed tonnes of forage before...
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High Voltage Takes Hyundai Electric Forklifts to 18 Tonnes
High Voltage Takes Hyundai Electric Forklifts to 18 Tonnes An 18-tonne forklift working around a steel yard, port or precast concrete plant presents a rather different electrification problem from a warehouse truck moving pallets between racking. Hyundai Material Handling is now targeting precisely...
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KfW IPEX-Bank Leads CHF 254m Financing for Saudi Passenger Trains
KfW IPEX-Bank Leads CHF 254m Financing for Saudi Passenger Trains A CHF 254 million export credit facility will finance ten Stadler passenger trains for Saudi Arabiaโs East Network, bringing Swiss rolling-stock manufacturing, European banking and state-backed export insurance into the Kingdomโs expa...
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Flannery Adds 97 Kubota Excavators in Major Fleet Investment
Flannery Adds 97 Kubota Excavators in Major Fleet Investment Utility work places different demands on construction equipment from a conventional building or major infrastructure site. Machines may move repeatedly between small excavations, roadside interventions and emergency repairs, making transpo...
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Volkswagen Gives the ID. Buzz Cargo More Room to Work
Volkswagen Gives the ID. Buzz Cargo More Room to Work Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles is stretching the working envelope of the ID. Buzz Cargo, introducing a long-wheelbase version with 4.4 cubic metres of load space, a larger 86 kWh battery and towing capacity of up to 1,800 kg. The additional 250 m...
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Uber Freight Builds Out European 4PL Operations with Krakow Expansion
Uber Freight Builds Out European 4PL Operations with Krakow Expansion Uber Freight is expanding its European logistics operation with a new control tower planned for Krakow, Poland, dedicated technology investment and a new regional head, as the company looks to connect more of its North American ma...
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Dutch Cycleways Face a New Test as Electric Mobility Changes the Traffic Mix
Dutch Cycleways Face a New Test as Electric Mobility Changes the Traffic Mix The Netherlands has spent decades building one of the world’s most mature cycling systems. The next challenge may be adapting that infrastructure to vehicles that still look broadly like bicycles, but no longer necess...
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Lemmo 3 Pushes the Longtail Cargo Bike Towards Vehicle Territory
Lemmo 3 Pushes the Longtail Cargo Bike Towards Vehicle Territory Cargo bikes have traditionally borrowed most of their engineering from bicycles: longer frames, stronger racks, bigger brakes and an electric motor to deal with the additional weight. Lemmo is taking a different route with its new Lemm...
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MIE and International Trade Council Expand Market Access Across Global Exhibitions
MIE and International Trade Council Expand Market Access Across Global Exhibitions International exhibitions increasingly have to deliver more than floor space, visitor numbers and a few days of networking. For companies entering unfamiliar markets, particularly across Africa and the Middle East, th...
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Smart Procurement World Indaba Puts Business Value Ahead of Price Alone
Smart Procurement World Indaba Puts Business Value Ahead of Price Alone Procurement departments have traditionally been measured against a deceptively simple question: how much money did they save? At the 20th Annual Smart Procurement World Indaba in Midrand, South Africa, the discussion moved well...
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Britain Is Building a Digital Map of What Lies Beneath Its Roads
Britain Is Building a Digital Map of What Lies Beneath Its Roads Britain’s national mapping agency generated ยฃ198.7 million in revenue during the year to 31 March 2026, up ยฃ4.1 million from the previous year. One of the contributors to that growth was a mapping operation extending far beyond t...
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