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Small Parcel Shipping: Best Practices for eCommerce Merchants

Ware2Go

Understanding the differences between small parcel and freight shipping allows fast growing eCommerce sellers to reduce shipping costs and maximize profitability. One way to minimize shipping costs is understanding the differences between small parcel and freight delivery. What Is Small Parcel Shipping?

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Understanding Conrail with Brian Gorton

The Logistics of Logistics

It operates three networks—the North Jersey, South Jersey/Philadelphia, and Detroit Shared Assets Areas, where it serves as a contract local carrier and switching company for its owners, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway. About Conrail . Conrail is an American railroad company. Advantages of rail transport: .

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FreightFest 2023 with Rahmel Wattley

The Logistics of Logistics

Rahmel is also the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Mega Driver Solutions, a CDL driver staffing company based in the Philadelphia metro area. Tusk save Shippers 40% or more on small parcel shipping. About Truck N’ Hustle Truck N’ Hustle is the #1 trucking and logistics community in the world.

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The 7 Best Events For Freight Shipping in 2015

GlobalTranz

Are you up-to-date with the latest events in freight shipping and logistics? Staying current in the world of shipping and freight also takes strong networking and communication. 7 of the Best Freight Shipping Events to Attend in 2015. 2015 ATA Management Conference and Exhibition Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; October 17-20.

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Touchless Black Friday

Enterra Insights

But the truth is that Black Friday owes its name to the Philadelphia Police Department, which did not have profitability in mind.”[1] In the middle years of the twentieth century, the scene was often particularly bad in Philadelphia, where the annual Army-Navy football game was regularly played on the weekend after Thanksgiving.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper includes southern New Jersey’s only Level I trauma center (Cooper University Hospital), which is the busiest trauma center in the Philadelphia region. For example, when a UPS strike was looming last year, the Interos solution automatically highlighted Cooper’s strategic suppliers that relied on UPS for shipping.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

In a blog post, Amazon said a combination of planes, trucks, ships, and delivery vans, along with staffed-up warehouses, has put it in a good position to “get customers what they want, when they want it, wherever they are this holiday season.” This includes trucking capacity concerns, port congestion , and warehouse staff.