Talking Logistics

JUNE 22, 2015

mpg for tractor trailers (compared to 6 mpg for 2010 tractor trailers). In 2010, IKEA changed its Ektorp sofa from one solid piece into several, with detachable armrests and a hinged back. miles out of its network from 2007-2010 and had increased its CWT per truck from 382 in FY 2007 to 415 in FY 2010, an 8.6

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In today’s blog we’re taking a look at what this means for shipping costs, and how retailers can fortify their operations against price hikes. Why are shipping costs growing? Response of shipping companies. Shipping costs hit an all-time high earlier this year. Fuel accounts for about 21 percent of carrier expenses.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

” Another company in this agriculture space is Freight Farm, which provides farmers the ability to grow vegetables in converted freight shipping containers equipped with the latest hydroponics and automated systems equipment. Freight Farms calculates annual profit for each container to be an average of $39,000 annually.”

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is a blog by one of our affiliate partners, Global Vision Group , a Federal Maritime Commission licensed Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC) and Ocean Freight Forwarder (OFF). Is Full container freight not moving? Try moving your most important freight LCL to the East Coast.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 8, 2016

It was a relatively quiet week for supply chain and logistics news, with robots and weak freight demand dominating the headlines. Heavy-Duty Truck Orders Fall to Lowest Since 2010 (WSJ – sub. Air cargo firms feel the pressure from plunge in freight prices (Reuters). percent from 3 percent. According to the article: DS Co.,

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 13, 2017

I’m on borrowed time this morning, so let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: DAT Freight Index Hits All-Time High in September. CSX customers demand end to shipping bottlenecks as CEO apologizes (Reuters). Spot freight availability was 74 percent higher than in September 2016.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 12, 2022

This, along with container shortages, drove up ocean freight spot rates and caused sporadic export delays. Over 100 ships waited to unload containers in December at Los Angeles and Long Beach, the U.S. for the 12 months ending December 2021, the largest calendar-year increase since data were first calculated in 2010.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 31, 2022

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. Last-mile shipping costs have steadily increased along with a number of surcharges to support increased demand.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

February 13, 2018 – Fair Lawn, NJ – Regarded as the premier transportation management system (TMS) solution provider by high volume food shipping organizations, UltraShipTMS once again reinforces its reputation as an innovator in the market. Peter Yost, Sr.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

JUNE 28, 2022

A third-party logistics company is an outsourced option for gaining assistance in picking, packing, shipping, and storing products. The Certified Transportation Broker (CTB) Program offers transportation & freight brokerage professionals the highest broker certification in the industry. What Is 3PL?

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Freight In The Year Of The Monkey. China’s role in world trade is so large that even small changes can have a broad impact on the international freight industry. Chinese carriers are increasingly using these platforms to consolidate LTL loads, driving more effective shipping. China-US freight is getting Amazon’ed.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 3, 2013

Cass Freight Index Report – April 2013. Overcapacity, Fuel Costs Hit Shipping Industry ( Fox Business ). KSD provides its customers with customs declaration, security filing, transportation management and freight forwarding technology solutions. percent in the quarter, while Con-way Freight reported a 0.4

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GlobalTranz

JULY 29, 2015

According to a recent report from Evan Armstrong of Armstrong & Associates, the 3pl industry is expected to see even more growth in the coming years than it saw from 2010-2013. percent in 2010-2013. Let Cerasis guide you with a freight invoice analysis or a transportation management assessment and consultation.

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The Kindle’s popularity was usurped by the iPad release in 2010— but Amazon quickly partnered up with Apple (and later, Android) to release the Kindle App, again widening its market. Co-opetition can Save the Freight Industry. In 2007, it released the Kindle. By the end of that year, it controlled 35% of market shares.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

Natural gas and oil expenses contribute to extreme cost disparities in shipping from Asia to the U.S., for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. Transportation and freight costs are reduced. Premium freight capacity improves. from abroad (mostly between 2010 and 2014, per Moser). energy costs have dropped.

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AFFLINK

JULY 20, 2017

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate. George chronicles the dangerous reality of shipping goods overseas, including shady operations, environmental damage, and yes, even pirates.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MARCH 28, 2018

After Generac went public in 2010, the company quickly grew through overseas acquisitions. Generac’s director of logistics, and his team, to develop a comprehensive solution that would seamlessly integrate the company’s trucking, ocean shipping, air, customs, and port services. Soon, we were working with Alan Rowlett, Jr.,

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 15, 2019

parcel shipping. New York City has seen a 29% increase in residential deliveries from 2010 to 2015. We’re seeing a lot of smaller vehicles,” said Diniece Peters Mendes, director of the New York City Department of Transportation’s Office of Freight Mobility to. Today in: "Where's my freight?". billion by 2016. Spotify. ,

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JULY 11, 2017

Recent less than truckload (LTL) rates and capacity levels have been below the historical levels we saw from 2005-2010. LTL shipping changes don’t exist in a vacuum. With the advent of “free shipping,” consumers no longer hold their online order until they can justify the shipping costs. Driver shortage. It’s summer time.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 22, 2015

Robinson (a Talking Logistics sponsor) picked up the pace for the field by introducing Freightview®, “a neutral, cloud-based transportation management system (TMS) software platform which cuts the time and money small and midsized businesses (SMBs) spend on freight shipping by streamlining quoting, booking, tracking, and reporting.”

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

One of these terms, free or freight on board, also has irony within its name. It is not free by any means, and failure to understand this term can lead to discrepancies when shipping products abroad and additional problems. What Exactly Is Freight on Board? Who Pays the Freight Cost for FOB? Freight prepaid.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Perhaps not the most recent invention, but certainly one of the most popular resources used in temperature controlled shipping are refrigerated containers. In fact, in 1980 only 33% of refrigerated capacity was containerized, whereas in 2010 this share was up to 90%.* Looking for more information about controlling your cold chain?

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Freight Plus

DECEMBER 18, 2017

After turning the taxi medalion industry on its ear in the mid-2010's and pivoting focus to autonomous vehicles, tech is aiming to expand the scope of their influence. A series of startups are vying to become an Uber of trucking,' leveraging truck drivers' smartphones to quickly connect them with nearby companies looking to ship goods.

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Elementum

AUGUST 22, 2016

The expansion of the Panama Canal, which handles about a third of Asia-to-US trade, is poised to boost trade and shipping services by shortening the one-way journey by sea from Asia to the U.S. The expanded canal, which started commercial operations on June 26, is expected to alleviate cargo bottleneck caused by smaller ships.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I started my career working in 3PL’s – one of which was the largest freight forwarder in the world in the 1990’s. Running a cost effective and safe supply chain distribution network across multiple geographies in the Asia Pacific region manufacturing and shipping chemicals where we averaged one delivery every 50 seconds.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2022

Parcel transportation and logistics services provider FedEx and freight-tracking software company FourKites Inc. indicate that both are building a data platform that aims to predict shipping delays and prescribe alternative plans for their customers. FedEx and FourKites Increase Partnership to Share Data. million daily shipments.

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Freightera

APRIL 28, 2020

Benoit Montreuil is the father of the Physical Internet, a concept he elaborated while at Université Laval, Quebec and disseminated in a series of papers, starting in 2010 and evolving until now. Europe has been aware and active since 2010. Interviewed by Eric Beckwitt, Founder and CEO, Freightera. As summarized by Prof.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

Riding a rising five-year trend, retail juggernaut Walmart® grossed $476 billion in the fiscal year that ended in January 2014, up from $408 billion in fiscal 2010, according to The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch. Walmart has held a place among Gartner’s top 20 supply chains since 2010. Walmart’s Supply Chain Forged Over Decades.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 7, 2016

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released text for the final rule for the Sanitary Transportation of Food as required by the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act. Most temperature controlled freight covered by this rule will need to be compliant in one year; small businesses have two years to comply.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 17, 2015

This month’s Market Update highlights key factors that impact the transportation industry in North America, including the latest Shippers Conditions Index (SCI) reading, which, while at the highest it’s been since 2010, has been predicted to be short-lived. Large Scale Market Indicators. The Shippers Conditions Index (SCI) rose to 2.6

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Enterra Insights

MAY 3, 2018

“117 such facilities were built across the United States from 2010 to 2016 for a total of 141.2 ” Burnson goes to note that e-commerce is having an impact on air freight hubs, maritime cargo, middlemen, and intermodal operations. .”[4]. He points to the growing number of fulfillment centers (i.e., million square feet.”

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 23, 2018

The Index, in its ninth year, ranks 50 emerging markets countries by factors that make them attractive to logistics providers, freight forwarders, shipping lines, air cargo carriers and distributors. GDP gain in 2010. In the 50 country rankings, Brazil slips two spots to No. 9, falling below No.

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Ware2Go

MAY 26, 2022

Find out how HealthWay’s partnership with Ware2Go enabled them to inbound and ship thousands of units in time for the new school year. In 2010, their CEO and founder, Vincent Lobdell, developed their patented DFS technology, which captures particles as small as.007 007 microns at 99.97% efficiency.

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Elementum

MAY 27, 2015

Increased traffic in shipping, rail, and road will likely mean more congestion and delays in coming years, at least until countries can innovate and mitigate congestion (see our articles on shipping congestion and China’s freight rail ).

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Reducing freight costs, improving supplier delivery performance, and minimizing supplier risk are three of the many benefits machine learning is providing in collaborative supply chain networks. The machine learning algorithms in IBM’s Watson platform were able to determine if a shipping container and.or no opt-in). no opt-in).

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 12, 2014

However, there is no evidence that America’s manufacturing woes have magically worked themselves out, or that a significant number of jobs that left for China and Mexico are being shipped back. Yes, manufacturing jobs are up by 700,000 since 2010 , but there are still over 1 million fewer manufacturing jobs than there were in 2008.

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Supply Chains Rock

APRIL 21, 2010

Wednesday, April 21, 2010. We a lot with green shipping and biodiesel transportation but there is always room for improvement in seeing what the big corporations are doing. And a few ocean freight shippers are looking at how kites can be used to catch the air so they can shut off the engines. Subscribe To. RelicaExpo.

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