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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

Transportation has followed the same evolutionary pattern, moving upstream from day-to-day freight transactions to an integral component of top-level corporate planning and procurement strategy. Going forward, it is vital that shippers analyze their freight spend and if required renegotiate their rates regularly to remain competitive.

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Black Friday 2016: Brought To You By Logistics

Freightos

Black Friday Logistics: Brought To You By Ocean Freight. What’s working for ocean freight (and what isn’t). Ocean freight has had a complicated year so far. Beyond speed, one of air freight’s primary advantages over ocean has always been reliability. Ocean freight is cheap. zschreiber.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 13-17, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Spot Market Stays Strong: September DAT Freight Index. Teamsters Make History With First Ever Organizing Victory at FedEx Freight. CSX profit up, beats forecasts as U.S. economy boosts freight (Reuters). It previously served the San Francisco Bay Area and parts of New York City and Los Angeles.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

It was a great costume, and we looked great — except we were living in Arizona at the time and nobody outside of New York City (the only place the Blue Man Group was performing at the time) had heard of them, so every time we showed up at a party that night, people would yell out, “Hey, look, Smurfs !” Con-way Inc.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

For the first time since 2020, I was back in New York City for the NRF Big Show. This new system of inventory management will go into effect on March 1, and will replace weekly restock limits that Amazon used for calculating FBA storage. This could be a slow, messy year for freight.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS said a trial run is focused on New York City and in several cities in Europe. GM partnered with GKN Additive Forecast 3D, to quickly print the components using a flexible material that met GM’s criteria.