Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2021

Seventy-one percent of the surface of our “blue planet” is covered by oceans which is also reflected in the fact that 80% of goods are moved via sea transportation within the global supply chain [1]. Ships also account for around 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions [2] , contributing to the acceleration of climate change.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The right way” emphasizes that our fundamental relationship with the Earth demands that products be made and transported in ways not harmful to the Earth. This incremental change allows for greater recycling use and needs to be done in order for Coca-Cola to reach its 100% recycled bottle content objective by 2025.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

Cargo ships lost 661 containers at sea in 2022, down from the 15-year average of 1,566 lost per year, according to the latest figures from the World Shipping Council (WSC). Some major ocean carriers have also announced new fees for goods shipped on the route as of June 1 in response to the canal restrictions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This year, with the LA Rams being Super Bowl champs, Good360 said it will ship thousands of “unsellable” Bengals-branded hats, T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, COVID-19 masks, and scarves to struggling people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. New wave of contracts will lock in much higher shipping rates.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Why aren’t we using more rail freight in Australia? According to logistics theory, rail freight comes into its own over greater geographical distances. I seem to recall learning back in my Cranfield days that 600 km was the magic number above which rail freight made economic sense. Rail Freight Australia.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This time of the year often brings the hassle of general rate increases (GRI) For shippers, this is an average increase of the base shipping rates provided by carriers. This season has the expectancy to have a hectic shipping season as we near the holiday times. bn during the forecast period 2021-2025.”

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In logistics and supply chain management, however, transport and warehousing are the most significant sharing processes thanks to a welter of economic benefits for all parties—and the trend is accelerating despite the dampening effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. 5) Freightos, Shipa Freight, Convoy. million (AUD), up from $11.4

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In fact, IDC predicts that manufacturers across Asia who digitally transform and accelerate sustainable innovation to improve supply chain operations, will increase their revenue by 20 percent in 2025. Dynamic routing has empowered logistics providers to consider plans B, C and D, offering alternative options of ocean and air freight cargo.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 21, 2021

A new era of air transportation trends is emerging to create a confusing outlook for shippers. Air freight has been in nonstop peak-season mode despite pandemic-induced capacity decline, while other disruptions, such as the Suez Canal blockage, drove even more demand to air. Flex your creative muscles.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

According to PLS Logistics , global companies will install procurement managers in China for entire organizations by 2025. Meanwhile, the use of Big Data will empower new fleets and freight optimization and consolidation measures, and the IoT will provide new insights. Globalization Will Become More Important in Everyday Decisions.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 17, 2019

Shipping is all about movement. The crux of the situation is that the need to move items faster, more efficiently, and cheaper to keep up with the quickening pace of parcel and consumers’demands for fast and free shipping. Well, this is where more movement, to multi-carrier shipping software, makes sense to shippers’ bottom lines.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Background For some time now, Supply Chain Matters has published viewpoints on the disruptive threat that online platform provider Amazon will and has had on both online and physical retail, but also package logistics, transport and last mile product fulfillment strategies surrounding many industry sectors.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 13, 2016

Wal-Mart cuts delivery time for pilot shipping plan (Reuters). Hapag-Lloyd, Five Asian Liners Form New Shipping Alliance (Bloomberg). trillion short through 2025 (Reuters). March 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). UPS-backed Rwandan blood deliveries show drones’ promise, hurdles (Reuters).

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Material Handling & Logistics

JULY 29, 2018

This is where it gets tricky, according to Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. The company also set a new goal that by 2025, 40% of all ground fuel will be from sources other than conventional gasoline and diesel, an increase from 19.6% In the U.S., Lauderdale.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2017

Global shipping feels fallout from Maersk cyber attack (Reuters). UPS Commits To More Alternative Vehicles, Fuel And Renewable Power By 2025. FourKites Partners with HaulFox to Provide Freight Brokers with Next Generation Supply Chain Visibility. The cyber attack was among the biggest-ever disruptions to hit global shipping.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Also, same-day delivery will reach a 25-percent market share by 2025. Up to 84 percent of global freight spend on trucking costs, including fuel, labor, technology and asset tracking, amounting to more than $800 in the industry. appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis. trillion by 2018 as well.

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Locus

DECEMBER 16, 2021

million by 2025. Staff unavailability, material and component shortages, roadblocks, bottlenecks in transportation and high shipping costs, all contributed to this situation. Fashion retail’s logistics deadlock.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 17, 2017

But, the capacity crunch may have a major impact on the freight driver shortage and vice versa. The Freight Driver Shortage IS BAD and Getting Worse. Since 2005, the freight driver shortage has grown from 20,000 unfilled positions to 70,000, and some reports suggest the shortage may worsen to more than 170,000 vacancies by 2025.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

“Customers will buy five items and return one, but when they package the one item, they use the same box the five items were originally shipped in,” explains Ryan Kelly, vice president of e-commerce and alliance marketing at FedEx. Then, you need to get your packages ready and attach a prepaid shipping label to them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Teamsters union has already said it is “putting infrastructure in place to help affected members get the assistance they need to find good union jobs throughout freight and other industries.” The center, known as YXU1, will see employees work alongside robotics technology to pick, pack and ship up to 750,000 items a day.

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Elementum

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

We’ve talked about the truck driver shortage and its potential to disrupt domestic freight shipping—fewer people are choosing to become truck drivers, leading to a serious dip in trucking capacity over the course of just a few years. transportation network at only 25 percent of the current cost.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

billion and record a CAGR of 15.99% during 2021-2025. Technavio, Last Mile Delivery Market in North America by Service and Geography – Forecast and Analysis 2021-2025, Jan 2021. – Boston Consulting Group, Climate Action Pays Off in Transportation and Logistics, July 2020. But things have changed today.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2023

” The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has mandatory drug tests that any safety-sensitive employee must complete. The retailer has partnered with the Bengaluru-based cargo airline Quikjet to launch its maiden air freight service in the country, which it said will enable the firm to speed up its delivery.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

trillion by 2025. The astonishing growth is attributable to the expansion of e-commerce , the emergence of new markets in Asia and Europe, changes in ocean container shipping, the development of new technology and more. The Move to LTL Digital Shipping. How New LTL Technologies & Processes are Changing the Shipping Game.

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Multichannel Merchant

DECEMBER 21, 2022

To address the volume decline and gain efficiency, the company has set a target of $4 billion in cost savings by fiscal 2025 across 14 domains within the company, each with an executive sponsor. Spending increased on purchased transportation, or hiring outside providers to fill in service gaps. Of the $4 billion, $1.4

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2021

With the third vaccine authorized, these manufacturers are pressing for more companies to be authorized to ship the vaccine. Global transportation is at the forefront of sustainability efforts. And while most people think of over the road trucking first, ocean freight is making waves.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. Thanks to container prices rising as much as 600%, money that could be used for advertising went to freight companies instead. Following a March 2022 surge of Covid-19 in Shanghai, shipping company A.P.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

As supply chain and transportation visibility is a hot topic for Logistics Managers and Directors, 3rd party logistics providers , who adopt this type of technology, are surely to reap the rewards of highly satisfied customers. What is the Hyperconnected Era or “The Internet of Things?”

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

We’ve talked about the truck driver shortage and its potential to disrupt domestic freight shipping: fewer people are choosing to become truck drivers, leading to a serious dip in truck capacity in only a few years. Another game-changer is the possibility of an Uber-for-trucks business for the freight industry.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Frost & Sullivan places Freightera among ‘Key Automated On-Demand Brokerage Solutions in North America’ along with Uber Freight and Convoy. ” Frost & Sullivan research showing Freightera among ‘Key Solutions’ for freight automation and high growth potential to 2025. trillion USD.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

Saint-Gobain also has a goal for organic growth of 3 – 5% through 2025. To support supply chain operations, Saint-Gobain has a Transport Control Tower. This control tower includes a supply chain design solution from Coupa that helps them reduce both freight costs and C02 emissions. There were also freight savings.

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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. Amazon has been focusing on a so-called “regionalization” effort to ship products to customers from warehouses closest to them rather than from another part of the country. That said, U.S. has pledged $3.4

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 17, 2022

US House passes ocean shipping bill to allay export backlogs. The company, in its quest to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025 has also been investing in electric vehicles as well as other alternative fuel sourced vehicles. GM 3D prints 60,000 parts to keep up with deliveries. Truckers strike in Korea roils shipments from steel to autos.

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Freightera

AUGUST 22, 2019

Freightera, the rapidly growing Vancouver-based B2B Freight Marketplace offering instant all-inclusive LTL, FTL and rail freight quotes in Canada and the USA, was recently listed as #3 of 100 Fastest-Growing Companies in B.C. Freightera is creating a unified global marketplace for freight shipping. See the list here.

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Generic drugs may be distributed over several logistical steps involving several distributors and transport providers while high-value specialty drugs and medical devices might be distributed from a single global or regional distribution center directly to the hospital (pharmacy or ward) or even the physician specialist at point of care.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2023

Additional Thoughts and Perspectives As Supply Chain Matters has pointed out in our various highlights of this and other labor contract negotiations involving global transportation, logistics and other supply chain related support services, we are in a period of higher labor activism. This effort is bound to increase labor tensions.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Forecasters such as McKinsey estimate potential savings as being worth over $1 trillion (US) by 2025. According to the Shipa Freight report, the primary challenges faced by internationalizing SMEs, from a shipping perspective, are as follows: International shipping costs are too high, and cost-visibility is inadequate.

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