ThroughPut

MARCH 1, 2022

According to a study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the cost of empty container logistics including repositioning, storage and handling, accounts for about 5-8% of today’s terminal operating budgets and the cost to the industry can go upto $20bln annually.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Ryder Reports Record Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2014 Results and Provides 2015 Forecast. Last year, Uber’s CEO Travis Kalanick said at a conference , “Look, [driverless cars] is the way the world is going. Finally, there are more than 20 cargo ships anchored at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach waiting to be unloaded.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 19, 2016

As world affairs go, the most recent Global Liner Shipping conference in London did not stir up much interest in the global news cycle. Coming back to the conference, every presenter had to acknowledge that the going is tough and one should not expect much change in the near future.

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 26, 2022

The logistics of food distribution are already complicated, yet US Foods is going the extra mile to collaborate with suppliers to track their Scope 3 emissions. This news comes as the International Energy Agency lowered the forecasted oil demand for the next two years. US Foods Prioritizes Reducing Scope 3 Emissions.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 15, 2022

Despite the disruptive nature of supply chains over the past couple of years, inventory management systems have not seemed to help retailers as effectively in forecasting and managing inventories - particularly as retailers made significant investments in omnichannel strategies. I wear a number of hats these days.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 21, 2021

Smart Logistics: Operate at peak efficiency when you know about, and can react to, changing events—like weather, traffic and last-minute customer requests. Add predictive analytics to forecast events so you can increase productivity, reduce cost and risk, and satisfy customers. Gain insights into unused capacity.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Red: Space is extremely tight and forecasting is imperative. Look ahead at your 3-month forecasts. The major impact will be to hazardous cargo (majority of classes), with a hold on Xiamen port from August 1st to September 7th, including imports to Xiamen, exports from Xiamen, and transfers via Xiamen.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 8, 2013

We’ll be discussing the future of the cloud during our Crossroads conference on June 26 th. the public cloud services market is forecast to grow 18.5 How much inventory could be better managed in this segment if there was better visibility into end-to-end cargo flows? According to the research firm Gartner, Inc., Register here.

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Savi

MARCH 14, 2019

Last week, the Savi Team once again attended the Trans-Pacific Maritime (TPM) conference in Long Beach, California, but this year the team detected a noticeable shift in the conversation. Beneficial Cargo Owners, or BCOs, openly said shipping price increases are necessary for carriers to stay profitable.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 11, 2020

Moody’s Investor Service forecasts a drop of 2.5% Cargo volumes have dropped by between 5 and 25 percent in the same period at ports in Europe and the United States. In the United States , automotive stocks have fallen due to a shortage of parts affecting production at the plants of General Motors, Ford, Toyota, and Fiat Chrysler.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif., Similar bottlenecks at inland points threaten to slow the movement of cargo and choke off growth. It’s a pretty robust outlook from most forecasters,” he said. sponsored by IHS Markit. Carrier services have stabilized as well.

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Requis

JANUARY 9, 2020

Another example from fulfillment might involve things like faster alternate transportation route planning in case of the unexpected, or monitoring cargo temperature for shipments of perishable food or medicines. This example could apply to any collection of physical equipment, like a drilling rig or a refinery.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 29, 2019

I’ve been trying to learn the basics of the game, and as luck would have it, at the Descartes Evolution 2019 conference this week (more about the conference in a future post), I sat with a Descartes executive who is an experienced rugby player — he even coached the women’s team at his university.

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Cathy Roberson

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

During UPS’ investor and analyst virtual conference in June, UPS executives discussed their Next Generation Profit initiative, a cross-functional program that, among other things, allows UPS to “optimize pricing for each customer and better align our cost to serve with the value we create.”

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GTG Technology Group

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The container overcapacity that has caused international shipping rates to plummet is forecast to continue through the fourth quarter and into next year. The standard container cargo measure is in 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs). This year’s conference leaders are optimistic after new alliances have created signs of industry revival.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 14, 2023

Up until then, collective liner pricing organizations (conferences)— which America was not part of—had gained so much market power that they had the ability to unilaterally raise rates and reduce services. As a result, the U.S. exports to war-torn countries. Of course not.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 24, 2015

I will note Rice used my list during his own excellent presentation on supply chain innovation at the MHI annual conference last October. The LCC is now of course a standard logistics practice today. But too add some new value I decided to add two innovations to make it an even dozen.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 4, 2021

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Sri Lanka braces for oil spill from sunken cargo ship. Earlier this month, consulting firm AlixPartners said the global semiconductor chip shortage will cost automakers $110 billion in lost revenues this year, as it forecast the crisis will hit the production of 3.9 million vehicles.

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