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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

Logistics Viewpoints

While conditions have eased in North America, port congestion has gotten much worse in China. Shippers – the companies paying Ocean, Rail, and Truck carriers to transport their goods – can do little to speed shipments snarled by port congestion. They have a fleet of over 250 container ships and a transport capacity of 1.8

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This Week in Logistics News (February 3 – 9)

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Blue Yonder , a leading supply chain solutions provider, announced its acquisition of flexis AG, a flexible, innovative software technology provider specializing in production optimization and transportation planning and execution. Delta Cargo , a unit of Delta Air Lines Inc.,

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New Year, New Horizons: Transportation Industry Gets Ready to Take On 2023

Intelligent Audit

As the transportation industry waves goodbye (and good riddance) to 2022, innovative logistics professionals are already working hard to make 2023 a banner year for the global transportation industry. According to Freightos , China-North America trade lane rates fell more than 40% YoY. . 12 statement from FedEx. “

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This Week in Logistics News (September 16 – 22)

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In addition, Totaltech members who spend $500 in October will receive a $50 reward certificate to use on Best Buy purchases in December. We have been planning early and leveraging investments in our people, infrastructure, transportation and technology made possible by the Delivering for America plan.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The first Z – Zero emission road transport: Global MOU for ZE-MHDVs . In 2018, according to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) road transport accounted for three-quarters of transport emissions. Most of this, 45.1

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The Green Corridor: Looking for the Green Lining

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Green Corridor: Looking for the Green Lining by Timothy Foote, Director Transportation & Network APAC at Asendia and Founder of Susymbio 2023 is soon enough to end, and the transformation to a clean logistics future moves forward. Air transport emissions reduction goals sadly will be hampered by insufficient supplies of SAF.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

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Roughly the size of a small cooler, Amazon Scout vehicles can transport small packages along sidewalks at walking pace. The engineers will begin by developing 3D software to emulate the “complexities of real life.” New aircraft purchases are focused around twinjets such as the Boeing 767 and 777.