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Editor’s Choice: Aluminum Can Shortage Defines a New Normal for Food Packaging

Logistics Viewpoints

This shortage is the culmination of various ongoing issues – geopolitical tensions related to the Russia-Ukraine war, the rapid shift in consumer buying behavior and container freight availability. Beer and food industries are particularly affected by the shortages of aluminum cans as most customers prefer take-home packaging.

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Consumer Packaged Goods Network Optimization: The Key to Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

Why Network Optimization Is the Key to Consumer Packaged Goods Supply Chain Resiliency It has been a few years since the onset of the pandemic exposed the tragic consequences of supply chain fragility within the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry.

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Seven Tips to Handling LTL Freight Demand

Talking Logistics

As online shopping continues to soar, small packages are moving to less-than-truckload (LTL) freight and LTL continues to receive truckload (TL) spillover freight. Logistics and supply chain experts report the imbalance is higher than they’ve ever seen, causing shipment delays and rising LTL freight costs.

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Freight Pricing 2020 Trends: What Should Shippers Know?

GlobalTranz

Freight pricing continues to change across the globe. According to Darren Dodson of Material Handling & Logistics, the state of e-commerce will drive the majority of freight rate changes as more than 8.6 billion packages will make their way to U.S. The post Freight Pricing 2020 Trends: What Should Shippers Know?

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Tame Ballooning Ocean Container Costs With Packaging Optimization Measures

CHAINalytics

Current ocean container shipping costs have turned some traditional packaging engineering considerations on their heads. Prices from Beijing to Los Angeles have fluctuated between … The post Tame Ballooning Ocean Container Costs With Packaging Optimization Measures appeared first on Chainalytics.

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Why You Should Move Secondary Packaging Closer to the Consumer

Consumer Goods Logistics

You might have one product – a potato chip – that gets packaged in dozens of ways. Historically, this final packaging has been handled as a discrete supply chain function.

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Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions

Freightos

Since January, the ocean freight shakeup has pushed many shippers to the air. The Digital Impact All airlines on the WebCargo platform provide digitized, real-time rates reflecting available capacity on specific flights that freight forwarders can then view and book instantly. That reached air cargo quickly.

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