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Driving the Mission with Graig Morin

The Logistics of Logistics

Graig is the Co-Founder and President of Brown Dog Carriers & Logistics. His career has varied from working on loading docks to hauling general freight. For the past 19 years, Graig has dreamed of owning and operating a driver friendly transportation and logistics company. million miles.

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Addressing Challenges in Global Logistics Operations with Technology

DELMIA Quintiq

Disrupted Logistics in Supply Chain Over the last four to five years, we have experienced disrupted logistics—broadly defined here as the interruption or complete breakdown of the supply chain functions at one or multiple levels. In March 2022, the United States had a record-high 8.1 million vacant job openings.

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Doing Our Part To Help Logistics Companies Adapt to COVID-19

Freightos

In 2019, digital freight isn’t a vision; it’s a reality. Land travel restrictions in Asia extended Chinese New Year, dropping ocean freight demand, which, just weeks later, spiked when the shutdown ended. And, through it all, logistics providers keep critical goods moving. Ports open and close.

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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

The global supply chain is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of reasonably priced logistics, and low variability. In March 2023, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008. United States Inflation Rates and GDP Inflation is the highest in forty years.

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Truck Capacity Shortage: The Past, Present and Future

Talking Logistics

From the last half of 2017 through today and beyond, a slew of market forces, some predictable and some unexpected, have combined to create a very real truck capacity shortage in the United States. economy in 2017 and so far in 2018, manufacturers have been producing more goods than usual and requiring more freight to be shipped.

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Google Will Acquire a 3PL – And Other Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2015

Talking Logistics

made that prediction in 2008 (see the Barron’s article What $300-a-Barrel Oil Will Mean for You ). I use this example to illustrate the challenges (or, perhaps, the futility) of making supply chain and logistics predictions. For related commentary, see: In Logistics, Somebody Has to Own the Assets.

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Parcel Carrier Fuel Surcharges Expected to Rise, Here’s What Shippers Should Know

Intelligent Audit

These averages have impacted the United States in different areas. recorded in 2008 by the EIA. If weekly increases are jumping at the rate of the Gulf Coast region, it would only take two weeks to surpass the 2008 record. Consolidate Freight Wherever Possible. from the previous week and $1.71 year-over-year.