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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

It is standard procedure to unload some Mediterranean-bound ships and use the Sumed pipeline to move the excess cargo. August 2015 saw the opening of the New Suez Canal, which cost over $8 billion and increased the depth to 24 meters (78 feet). billion tons of cargo (as of 2020). meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5 More than 1.14

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How Shipping Overcapacity Could Be Maersk’s Salvation

Freightos

In 2015, Maersk Transport and Logistics generated nearly 75% of Maersk’s revenue. The first Maersk E Class ship was delivered in 2006 and was able to carry 14,700 TEU, a world record at the time. billion in 2015, the entire industry was still scrambling to order new ships. But that hadn’t been the case.

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Amazon, FedEx and Adjacent Innovation

Techgistics

Blackberry unit sales 2015: 7 million iPhone unit sales 2015: 233 million Back to the topic at hand, while there can be little doubt that the barriers to entry in the package delivery market are massive, we’ve seen this playbook before from Amazon in the form of adjacent innovation. In 2015, Amazon accounted for 60% of all U.S.

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Top 15 Biggest 3PLs in the US - 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

Content Summary: Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Chicago, Coyote Logistics LLC, a UPS company, provides truckload, less-than-truckload, intermodal, air and ocean brokerage services and transportation management services to more than 14,000 shippers of various sizes and industries. 2016 revenues: $2.36 2016 revenues: $6.09

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Tesla and the Future of the Trucking Industry

Elementum

CEO Elon Musk, whose original “Master Plan” was unveiled ten years ago in 2006, initially mapped out blueprints for autonomous electric cars and energy storage. Around 14,547M tons worth of cargo was in transit in 2013, accounting for 73% of cargo delivered that year. Overview of Trucking in the U.S.