Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

All those books would weigh 49,000 kilograms – half the cargo mass of a Boeing 747-200F. Fred Smith, FedEx’s founder, actually gambled FedEx’s last pennies to keep the company up, with pilots filling planes with their own credit cards. One key driver of the company’s success is the huge supply chain that drives Walmart growth.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 3, 2022

In comparison, transportation and warehousing PPI increased 17.844 points for the same period, index based on 2006=100 and not seasonally adjusted. During FedEx’s fiscal second quarter for the period ending November 30, the company noted that its Ground Commercial (B2B) delivery service reported an 8.7%

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Steamship companies will dedicate vessels that permanently go eastbound and westbound. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America. He notes that this is similar to the 2006-2007 market where capacity was becoming constrained.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 3, 2014

They’re expected to fully cover training in truck driving rules and regulations, safety, logs, defensive driving, cargo handling, personal finances, business, preventative maintenance, emergency equipment and safe operations — all in all, complete truck driver training — for around 400 veterans. Transportation trucking'

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Elementum

AUGUST 11, 2016

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. The question now is: What impact can this major move have on the company and in the trucking industry? Autonomous driving means that companies will save time and money.

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Techgistics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

No tech company exemplifies adjacent innovation better than Amazon and no other tech company benefits from scale as much as Amazon. In 2006, Amazon leveraged their expertise in eCommerce fulfillment to create another adjacent business, Fulfillment by Amazon, which provides fulfillment services to small and mid-size merchants.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Back in 2012, the company decided to transfer IT decision-making powers from the corporate level down to individual business unit CIOs. The first Maersk E Class ship was delivered in 2006 and was able to carry 14,700 TEU, a world record at the time. Twenty such ships were ordered. billion in 2014. The Bottom Line.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

And yet, despite the continued advancement of global trade management solutions, many companies still rely on Excel spreadsheets to manage this highly strategic and risky supply chain process. Government to import or export cargo. Although this sounds like a new system, it’s actually been in the works for more than 8 years.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2017

While the growth in the third-party logistics market has slowed somewhat, 90% of the major companies in the U.S. This points to an ongoing trend, Armstrong notes, "for companies to outsource logistics functions to 3PLs in order to control costs and increase supply chain efficiency." are now using at least one 3PL in their operations.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Suez Canal Company's shares were purchased by Great Britain in 1874, making it the sole owner. It is standard procedure to unload some Mediterranean-bound ships and use the Sumed pipeline to move the excess cargo. The company's subsequent financial collapse was reportedly the biggest of the 19th century. meters in 2001.

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