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Unit one World economy and logistics Class warm-up (20 min) Group yourself with other 5 students and Find out 3 common among you and your partner Find out 3 uncommon among you and your partner What is your expectation for this class? (write down 10 key words at least) Class work 1 world economic organization Acronym Chinese English (full term) FAO UNCTAD WFP UNDP ESCAP WTO IMF WB WHO WTO-OMT WCO ITU ICC IMO CFC OPEC IEA WEC ECO 2 what is logistics? As you understand 3 name some famous logistics company? (5) 4 read the following “Big data” is the name given to the huge amounts of information that can be systematically collected from various sources and then analyzed and evaluated with the help of new technologies. The rapid increase in the quantity of available data is primarily the result of automatic generation. Examples include the recording of delivery data or prescriptions in the healthcare sector. Companies and other organizations hope that the evaluation of such data will allow them to recognize relevant trends at an early stage, giving them concrete competitive advantages.“Big data and logistics fit together perfectly. Logistics companies manage a huge flow of goods and thereby create massive volumes of data. Specific data about millions of deliveries, including destination, size, weight and information about contents, is recorded every day. That data offers huge potential for new business models, among other things. That allows logistics companies to become search engines for users from every conceivable field,” explained Martin Wegner, Vice President Research Development, DHL Customer Solutions Innovation.The aim of the trend report is to identify significant trends using scientific methods as a starting point for innovative, logistics-specific big data concepts in three areas: First, the aim in the field of operational