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Amazon Expands Air Freight Services and Carrier Equity Stakes

Supply Chain Matters

What differentiates the wide body Airbus A330 as a full cargo aircraft is its capacity to transport high volumes of lower-density cargo such as packages. Amazon will be formally reporting on its Q3 2022 financial performance on Thursday of this week and could add more to this announcement. . . All rights reserved. .

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Last-Mile Success - Closer and Faster

Cathy Roberson

The recent batch of retailers' earnings offers insights into the success that retailers are achieving in connecting the online and physical store, better known as omnichannel which was first coined around 2010. from Q4 2021 to Q1 2022 due to higher general rate increases and fuel surcharges. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Parcels' role in Intermodal Rail

Cathy Roberson

It wasn’t until 2010 that FedEx really embraced intermodal services and the announcement came in a Norfolk Southern Q4 2010 earnings call: “With respect to new services, we are pleased to announce this afternoon that we've been selected as the primary eastern rail carrier for FedEx as it launches its new intermodal service.

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High Seas Troubles Affect Global Supply Chains, Part One: Security Risks

Enterra Insights

As a result, piracy activity dramatically decreased by 75 percent between 2010 and 2022. Customers of maritime shipping firms not only want to protect their goods they also want to avoid higher insurance and additional shipping surcharges for cargo transiting the Red Sea. ” Forbes, 28 June 2022. [6] That’s Illegal.