CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 27, 2020

After an extremely volatile first half of the year, the challenges in the air freight market look set to continue into 2021, requiring both foresight and forward planning from businesses. A turbulent six months for air freight. This caused an overheated market, with the price of air freight increasing by as much as 400%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

The delays caused Aurora to revise its expectations for producing road-ready trucks until the first half of 2024. According to The American Transportation Research Institute’s (ATRI) 2022 update, the total marginal cost of trucking grew by 12.7 percent in 2021 to $1.855 per mile, the highest on record.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

production worker hourly wages starting in January 2024. Labor Department indicating that warehouses and transportation companies employed 25,000 few workers in October than the year-earlier period. The report observes that in 2021-2022, the largest carriers amassed net income levels totaling $364 billion.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 24, 2023

Faced with economic uncertainties, transportation industry leaders are focused on building supply chain resiliency. No matter which way you look at it, 2023 is off to a challenging start for much of the transportation industry. In the industry that’s always moving, here are the 11 headlines you need to know.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

An initial estimate of this year’s retail holiday spending indicates a mixed bag, depending on either retail industry, consumer goods producer or logistics and transportation industry perspectives. percent increase reported for 2021. retail sales for the period that spanned November 1 through December 24 rose 3.1 In reality, the 3.1

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2021

Applications are due by July 2021, with the program looking to reduce deforestation between 2022 and 2026. Part of this plan is to speed up its supply chain, primarily with a $100 million distribution center in Hendricks County, creating up to 500 jobs by the end of 2024.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, Amazon’s logistics services include transportation and warehousing solutions, allowing businesses of all sizes to leverage Amazon’s expertise and resources in streamlining their supply chain and improving their delivery capabilities. 2021: 1,608,000 Amazon Employees New hires: However, in 2022, they employed over 1.5

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This, along with container shortages, drove up ocean freight spot rates and caused sporadic export delays. By the end of 2021, bottlenecks at ports stretched into the Pacific Ocean. for the 12 months ending December 2021, the largest calendar-year increase since data were first calculated in 2010. compared to September 2021.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Rickenbacker International Airport was a bustling hub for air freight well before the pandemic—a day’s truck drive to half of the U.S. The former wartime airbase handled a record 1,655 international cargo arrivals in 2021, a 73% jump from 2019, and overall tonnage rose 18%. International freight being unloaded at Rickenbacker airport.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 1, 2022

Department of Commerce International Trade Commission , the percentage of retail sales sourced from ecommerce is predicted to increase into 2024–well beyond the lockdowns that caused the initial rise in ecommerce spend. Another NRF report showed that online sales comprised 23% of all retail sales in 2021.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As Niall van de Wouw, Chief Air Freight Officer at Xeneta, told Supply Chain Dive, “We are six weeks away from Christmas, and there is no indication there will be a peak.”. consumers a whopping 23% more than in 2021. Managing Freight & Parcel Spend is No Holiday Walk in the Park. Roughly 2.5%

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 14, 2023

We have the potential to revolutionize goods transportation and are excited to be working with partners around the world to make this vision a reality. We have the potential to revolutionize goods transportation and are excited to be working with partners around the world to make this vision a reality. while securing a $5.4

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Proxima

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Fueled by Covid, war, and supply shortages, inflation rates across key global markets including the UK and US have remained over the 2% target rate since April 2021, peaking at 11% and 9% respectively, in 2022. But what goes up, must eventually come down. The pendulum is also starting to swing elsewhere.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

The software and managed services of this provider were augmented with the acquisition of New South Wales based Pegasus in 2021. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Founded in 2003, Utah based Avetta has reportedly deployed by 500 clients located in more than 130 countries.

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ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Carrier rates are declining across the board, and Seatrade Maritime News reported an “expected trough of freight rates to mid-2023 from 2024 with a lower demand forecast and a higher than expected effective capacity increase due to the unwinding of congestion. Carriers Will Lower Rates But Keep Many Others.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 30, 2023

Weight limits have also been adjusted, forcing some ships to unload and transport cargo to the other side of the canal via train—increasing transportation costs. During the drought, 32 vessels will be permitted to cross, down from 36 usually. The ACP also implemented “Condition 3” until September 2, 2023.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 4, 2022

In January, Supply Chain Matters highlighted an announcement from electric vehicle start-up Rivian Automotive disclosing plans to invest in a second volume manufacturing facility be located near Atlanta, Georgia with production operations being planned for 2024. Expeditors International Begins Recovery Efforts from Cyberattack.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. In 2021, 87% of Americans were negatively impacted by the supply chain. In Fortune 500 earnings calls for Q3 of 2021, “supply chain” mentions were up 412% from Q3 in 2020. in the second quarter of 2021 due to a lack of raw materials. ( Chain Store Age ).

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 10, 2024

Included in this update are the following tech providers: SAP SE and WalkMe Transfix and NFI Industries Right to Warn Our last full edition of this column was published on May 8, 2024. billion, a 45 percent premium to WalkMe’s closing share price on June 4, 2024. billion in 202, to just over $600 million within a year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That’s a sharp reversal from 2021 and the first half of 2022, when UPS and FedEx – awash with volume from the early pandemic’s online shopping surge – rebuffed discount requests and cherry-picked the most profitable customers.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

If we take a closer look, we can see that global aviation, including domestic and international; passenger and freight accounts for 2.5% Quicker transports have, in turn, helped the expansion of international trade and globalization. Today about 90% of non-bulk cargo worldwide is transported by a container.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2023

Loadsmith says its newly formed entity, Loadsmith Transportation, is the first freight transportation company built specifically for self-driving trucks. The home improvement retailer expects to complete the effort in fiscal year 2024. This will certainly be an interesting trend to watch.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2023

One area is in transportation, such as mapping and planning routes, taking into account variables like the weather, Perego said. Utilizing the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure package, the U.S. billion between 2022 and 2024. Another area is when customers search from products on Amazon to help them find the right goods.

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Stord

MAY 2, 2022

Q1 2021 saw 39% year-over-year growth in US e-commerce sales. This growth is continuing with e-commerce sales expected to reach $6 trillion by 2024. When there aren’t enough transport workers to move goods, supply chains break down–quickly. Younger generations are far less interested in transport jobs.

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Unleashed

JUNE 23, 2021

2021 has been a tumultuous year, marking a transition period from the chaos of 2020 through to the beginning of the post-Covid-19 recovery. Best practice inventory management – and the wider world of supply chain management – has played a big part in business survival through 2021. 10 inventory management for 2022: 1.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Freight demand and rates are escalating. Freight rates are going crazy…and this is really hard to comprehend: the producer price index for all types of freight transportation arrangement (TL brokerage, LTL brokerage, intermodal marketing companies, ocean freight forwarders, air freight forwarders, etc.)

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 17, 2021

This shortage raises truck transportation prices, which show up in higher prices for every product. For example, over the last four years an annual member survey carried out by the American Transportation Research Institute has ranked truck driver shortages as the industry’s top concern. It’s not a new problem. Lack of respect.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2022

When it comes to the movement of freight, one megatrend driving the need for better technology is the driver shortage. TuSimple – a provider of autonomous freight semi-truck solutions – has said their technology will be operational by 2024. TuSimple is offering freight as a service to shippers and carriers.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 17, 2023

In its reporting TechCrunch observed that in its first year as a public company, Qualtrics stock value mostly traded above its $30 IPO price but over the last twelve months, the tech provider’s market value has plummeted from $28 billion in 2021 to around $5 billion towards the end of 2022. Dr. Plattner’s term expires in May 2024.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2024

commercial truck fleet would require nearly $1 trillion in infrastructure investment alone, according to a new report from Roland Berger released today by the Clean Freight Coalition. The $2,500 spread between spot market rates and long-term freight contract rates for Asia to U.S. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2024

It’s more than doubled the number of robots deployed in its fulfillment centers and warehouses in the last three years, from 350,000 in 2021 to 750,000 by last June. Because going around Africa takes longer, shipping companies have had to add more vessels to ensure that they can transport goods on time and without cutting volumes.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

That board reportedly made recommendations that included 24 percent wage increases during the period from 2020 thru 2024 with a 14.1 freight movements, the implications are large for many businesses. With rail accounting for an estimated 28 percent of total U.S. economy upwards of $2 billion per day.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Supply Chain Matters alerts clients and readers to a potential replay of the 2021 disruption in global shipping and cascading supply chain disruption as a result of recent events. This restriction for Panama Canal transit had already motivated logistics and transportation management teams to begin to re-route Asia to U.S.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

MARCH 10, 2023

We would like to share some insights on the general economy and freight market specifically with you: our customers, employees, business partners and community. While many economists warned of the inherent uncertainties of a market dependent upon new variables with very little historical precedent, few predicted the freight recession of 2022.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2024

Later this month the nominees will be announced for the 2024 Oscars. It has forced ships to reroute around the southern tip of Africa, driving up the cost for vessels for the longer voyage, though rates are still far below pandemic levels reached in 2021. One category that has always been interesting is Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2024

On February 4 at the 2024 Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift announced that she would be releasing a new album, which had secretly been in the works for two years. Some of the robots zip around the hulking facility transporting pallets of merchandise fresh off delivery trucks. After months of anticipation, the day is finally here.

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