Elementum

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

As diesel prices tick up and the costs of keeping drivers rises, freight companies are taking action to protect their earnings. Companies like XPO Logistics and Old Dominion Freight have implemented a general rate increase of 5.9 Logistics providers also investing in new equipment. percent and 4.9 percent respectively.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 25, 2021

Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s logistic arm Cainiao launched a container booking service last week in response to the global shortage. A Chinese worker looks on as a cargo ship is loaded at a port in Qingdao, eastern China’s Shandong province. Compared with last March’s low prices, freight rates from China to the U.S.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 22, 2022

The shipping industry contributes to 25% of America’s total GDP with the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach being the busiest, handling more than 40% of all inbound cargo shipped to the U.S. Port operators therefore need to plan how they will meet supply with demand and match cargo schedules on a real-time basis.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Bank of America sounding the alarm on collapsing freight demand. Here are some of the higher profile announcements around sustainability initiatives: AIT Worldwide Logistics set a net-zero emissions target for 2035 in its first sustainability report. Canada’s Walmart tries ring scanners.

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3PL Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The company represents almost 8% of trans-Pacific trade shipments for the United States market, and now they have stopped accepting new cargo. However, Nerijus Poskus, director of pricing and procurement for the freight forwarder and customs broker Flexport, predicts that this spike won’t last longer than one or two months.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Waymo’s self-driving trucks will deliver home goods for Wayfair. US port backups are extending into freight rail supply chains. The post This Week in Logistics News (June 25 – July 1) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. Amazon plans two Prime shopping events this year.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

As part of our ongoing commitment to keep our blog readers updated on what’s happening in the supply chain and logistics world, we’re launching a regular industry news roundup, which we’ll release periodically. Rapidly rising fuel prices will bring about even more widespread supply chain disruption.

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Freight Plus

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2018 shippers are paying historic rates for freight that takes longer to move. On this week's podcast we cover the truck driver shortage, the rising cost of freight and consumer goods, as well as offer shippers some solutions to this dire issue. We also take a look at the the Cass freight index as published by.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. billion consumers isn’t immune to Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy’s cost-reduction campaign. The company said it is exiting meal deliveries as well as a service providing bulk doorstep deliveries of packaged consumer goods to small businesses. That’s all for this week.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 3, 2023

What a whirlwind the 2022 Freight Market was – we saw inflation, fuel prices, and freight rates hit record highs. China is the world’s largest producer and exporter of consumer goods. Disruptions across the Chinese manufacturing sector are likely to impact the global supply chain of goods and the world’s economy. .

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 25, 2017

Harvey Will Affect Fuel Prices and Freight Transportation. Meanwhile, oil refineries and drilling platforms are also located in the hurricane's path, as are several seaports and the Houston Ship Channel, so analysts expect an impact on fuel prices and cargo transportation, respectively, according to Bloomberg.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Countdown to Black Friday: Are You an Easy Target for Cargo Theft? With Black Friday on the horizon, consumer goods of all kinds are making their way from manufacturers to distribution centers and retail locations across the country. Remember that freight at rest is freight at risk. Transportfolio.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

From a carbon footprint perspective, the Last Mile delivery of single e-commerce parcels to individual consumer dwellings is one of the most inefficient, costly and carbon producing activities in the retail and consumer goods supply chain!

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

But there’s no decline in the time, knowledge, and effort that shippers and transportation professionals put into the preparation and execution it takes to get products to market in time for consumers to do their holiday shopping—whenever, and however, they inevitably decide to do it. Post 2: Are You an Easy Target for Cargo Theft?

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 24, 2015

The LCC is now of course a standard logistics practice today. The result was terribly inefficient handling on both sides of the equation, poor space utilization on the cargo ships, freight damage, and high logistics costs. Ship sites called in planned shipments, and then carriers and routings were phoned back.

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Zipline Logistics

MARCH 24, 2020

This year is off to an a typical start as the freight market and the international economy braces for the full impact of the coronavirus. . However, the freight market outlook , at least to start Q2, is brighter than other sectors of the domestic economy. . We are seeing several-year highs in freight volume.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Delivery drivers will ride e-cargo bikes and walk to customers’ homes and offices in central London, replacing thousands of traditional van journeys in the city’s congested roads. These costs are passed over to the consumer, which adds to inflation. This is not normal.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Following the recent attacks launched by Yemen’s Houthi group on cargo ships in the Bab al Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea, several major global shipping and oil companies – including Maersk and British Petroleum (BP) – have suspended shipments and halted operations in the area. Will suspend shipments.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Texas announced a renewed push for cargo-truck inspections last month as part of Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” plan to deter illegal border crossings and drug smuggling amid what he says is a lack of enforcement by the federal government. Daily market prices to move cargo from Asia to the U.S.

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