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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

The jobs reduction will save $1 billion this year, Tomé said on an earnings conference call with analysts on Tuesday. percent drop in annual sales, UPS forecast a 2024 upswing of as little as 1.1 The big three US airlines saw their cargo revenues decline last year as rates and volumes came under pressure. percent in early U.S.

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146 days until Christmas - Are you ready?

Cathy Roberson

The planning typically begins at the start of the year as shippers work with carriers to share updated forecasts of capacity requirements throughout the year to ensure parcels are delivered on time during the season. However, if shippers under or overestimate their forecasted capacity requirements, they could incur a penalty from carriers.

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New Wildcard for Supply Chains - Fuel Prices

Cathy Roberson

It’s been a crazy month plus - new customers, three conferences, and a couple of podcasts and webinars. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) latest forecast (March 3), daily spot prices for Brent oil closed at almost $124/b in the first week of March. an article is well, well overdue…my apologies.

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The battle for the last mile is in the cloud, but which one?

Cathy Roberson

“Gathering data on the last mile is dark,” an Uber Direct executive told me at Oracle’s OracleWorld conference last month. The Oracle/Uber solution relies on transportation services from Uber, while Bringg’s platform offers “a global network of over 200 integrated carriers, including parcel, same day, and LTL.”

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This Week in Logistics News (September 12-16, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Are you attending the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference later this month (September 25-28 in Orlando, FL)? If so, I invite you to attend two of the sessions that I am participating in, both related to transportation management: TMS 4 SMB: A Case Study with Carhartt. Room: Sun 3-4.

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Giants in the tank. Has liner shipping lost its mojo?

DELMIA Quintiq

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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This Week in Logistics News (May 2-6, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Another busy week, so let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention, headlined by a major acquisition in the transportation management systems (TMS) market: Kewill Announces Acquisition of LeanLogistics. Amazon partners with Atlas Air Worldwide for cargo services (MarketWatch).