Freightos

AUGUST 6, 2016

Plummeting freight rates mean that under 50% of logistics providers turn a profit on ocean shipping, while threatening competition from industry newcomers like Amazon and Alibaba spell out unprecedented challenges for the logistics industry. By 2012, the company was worth just $23 billion. Risk Aversion. Going to the Cloud.

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

October 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). One of my predictions for 2015 is that companies will begin to transform their decision-making processes, which will lead to greater use of social networking technologies. Esri and E2open Partner to Deliver Market-Leading Supply Chain Solutions. Moving on to 3PL news, C.H.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

And on the subject of sustainability, SCDigest.com covered Walmart’s 2015 Sustainability report : Walmart, the world’s largest corporation, is fresh out with its 2015 sustainability report, the eighth such document it has produced. Arkansas Business Limited Partnership, July 2, 2012. ” Walmart states early on.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2016

Amazon reported its Q4 2015 results yesterday, and although it reported record profits for the quarter ($482 million), the company’s shares tumbled in after-hours trading because overall results fell short of analyst expectations. Robinson Opens Second Air Freight Screening Facility. November 2015 North American Freight Numbers.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 10, 2016

iContainers, Expedia for transporting freight internationally, raises $6.7 Freight Rates Push Lower as Truck Capacity Outweighs Demand (WSJ – sub. April 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). April 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). million (TechCrunch). Grown by 100% year-over-year.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With the growing trend towards online shopping, e-commerce giant Amazon in 2015 turned to independent contractors—basically anyone with a car—to deliver parcels to homes and businesses. There are many other instances of the shared economy within the supply chain domain, including the following: 1) Uber Freight. million in FY17.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

E2open’s initial public offering, pushed with great ballyhoo was in July 2012. On March 26, 2015, Insight Venture Partners (“Insight”) purchased E2open for $8.60 To create a standard electronic booking system for the ocean freight industry. In the next decade, in the evolution of E2open, there were many twists and turns.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 12, 2016

Capacity tightened up in 2014 , but then loosened again in 2015. But to understand the current state of truckload capacity, we need to go back to January 2015. Freight volumes are up a little with lackluster economic growth, which leaves an implied excess capacity of 2-4%. It was negative in 2015.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

Perishable goods like fresh food may utilize air freight for faster delivery to distant locations. Amazon’s Innovation in Logistics Faster Deliveries with “Anticipatory Package Shipping” (Filed August 2012) Imagine Amazon predicting what you’ll buy before you do!

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

As we make our way into 2015, trucking freight volumes look good. FMC Chairman Mario Cordero said that addressing port congestion is the agency’s top focus for 2015. That’s fewer than the previous low of 725, set in the second quarter of 2012. Large Scale Market Indicators. in January alone. Read more. . Diesel Pricing.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As I explain in my book, The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected (MIT Press, October 2015), companies can improve their disruption detection capabilities in a number of ways. When Cisco saw news of wildfires in Colorado in 2012, it wasn’t concerned, because it had no manufacturing or suppliers in the area.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Logistics service providers can of course play an important role in the consolidation of freight flows, but the most successful collaborative projects are initiated by shippers themselves. With 20 years’ experience in supply chain and logistics management, Vorrath was hired in 2015 to lead Johnson Controls’ global supply chain.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

Strong results for air freight, container shipping and export orders in particular suggest that, while the trade recovery may moderate in due course, it will likely continue in the coming months and remain above trend,” the report says. “It If we’re going to see higher freight rates, we’ll need demand growth to outstrip supply growth.”

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 21, 2014

Its proximity to the Port of Long Beach creates a maritime cluster that supports flexible supply chains with ready access to 14 major freight hubs across the US. The port has been taking some action to improve its position in this way which can be seen in its 2012-2017 strategic plan. It saw an 8.2%

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

The country’s underdeveloped intermodal freight transportation system is consistently outperformed by its faster and better integrated U.S. The move may be risky, but the mega retailer’s play may also be indicative of an emerging trend in North American maritime freight. freight imports anytime soon. Lazaro Cardenas Port.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 20, 2015

Industry data for 2004 - 2013 shows an annual loss of at least $17 billion due to vacant positions, with shocking losses of around $45 billion in both 2012 and 2013. Indicators are that the worker deficit could rise to over 2 million unfilled jobs in the next decade.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Walmart Supply Chain and Transportation Trends for 2015. Jason Mathers discussed the 5 Principles of Greener Freight, and provided real-world examples of those principles in action (read the Ocean Spray , Caterpillar , and Boise case studies, and also watch my conversation with Jason from earlier this year on Talking Logistics).

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Talking Logistics

MAY 29, 2015

March 2015 North American Freight Numbers. NAFTA freight totaled $96.1 billion in March 2015…Year-over-year, the value of U.S.-NAFTA NAFTA freight flows by all modes decreased by 5.3 Mexico freight totaled $45.2 Mexico freight totaled $45.2 Mexico freight than in March 2014.

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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. In 2015, Maersk Transport and Logistics generated nearly 75% of Maersk’s revenue. billion in 2015, the entire industry was still scrambling to order new ships. This isn’t a new strategy.

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Elementum

APRIL 22, 2015

Since 2012 the FAA has been under increasing pressure to implement a comprehensive and streamlined pathway for companies wishing to obtain commercial drone operating licenses. Last year Rolls-Royce unveiled a virtual prototype for unmanned freight cargo ships, showing that the future of drones isn't exclusively airborne.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 18, 2015

In addition, in 2015 UPS and FedEx have both changed their calculations of dimensional weight, a calculation that increases the billed weight of a package if the package is oversized or unusually shaped. The end result is that shippers will be seeing freight costs rise in 2016, and that will drive straight to their bottom line.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The current outlook for the rail freight industry is, at best, mixed. Where rail freight once was the price-competitive transport mode of choice, low fuel prices and increased availability of trucks in the spot market have resulted in low freight rates that are expected to remain low¹. However, there is one that isn’t ― pricing.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Peter Stefanovich started Left Lane Associates with Mike McCarron in 2015. [2:20] Mike started with Yellow Freight right out of college and was eventually one of the top salespeople. He started MSM Transport and eventually sold it in 2012 to Wheels Group. [17:27] upon returning from the USA in 2013.

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Techgistics

JUNE 4, 2017

In 2016, third-party sellers accounted for approximately 50% of Amazon’s unit sales and are also Amazon’s second largest source of revenue - $23 billion in 2016 a 43% gain on 2015. It’s going to be easier, cheaper, and faster to deliver multiple packages to several locker locations than many individual customer locations.

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Japan has more than 175 airports; 142 with paved runways and most of them capable of handling freight planes and jets. There are 23 air carriers registered in the country, and they moved 8,868,745,000 mt-km of freight in 2015. The Prime Minister is Shinzo Abe, who has held the office since 2012.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 11, 2015

With the release of the May 8, 2015 Jobs Report , many businesses and employees within the manufacturing industry have grown concerned. Bureau of Labor Statistics US manufacturing jobs Report – April 2015. 4 Driving Forces to Understand appeared first on Freight Logistics Company | Cerasis. Technological Advances.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Bed Bath & Beyond @BedBathBeyond Bed Bath & Beyond has discovered a way to save millions of dollars on freight over the next few years, thanks to a new 755,000 square-foot distribution facility slated to open in the fall of 2019. The new facility will allow the company to offer two-day shipping to most (about 90%) of the U.S.

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Cathy Roberson

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Amazon introduced its B2B marketplace in 2012, AmazonSupply, and then in 2015, renamed it Amazon Business. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo World. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 18, 2019

With the start of 2015, UPS and FedEx instituted a dimensional (DIM) weight pricing structure. This has changed the way freight companies calculate shipping charges. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) figures show a large jump in the volume of freight shipped between 2012 and 2015.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

Hence the companies Bugaboo and Foss have both faced considerable challenges, as they revealed during the recent ‘Supply Chain Opportunities in China’ seminar in Amsterdam on 24 June 2015. In 2012 the company decided to seriously push for success in the Chinese, Japanese and South Korean markets. By Marcel te Lindert. Regional DC.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 17, 2023

Mr. Renjen served as global consulting firm Deloitte’s Global CEO from 2015 to December 2022 upon his retirement from the role. Freightos Cuts Revenue Forecast Cloud based freight booking and payments tech provider Freightos slashed its 2023 growth forecast amid continued reductions in global trade volumes and freight rates.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 6, 2015

Rethink Robotics introduced Sawyer in 2015 and pioneered the “friendly” robot game with the introduction of Baxter in 2012, which will make the integration of human workers and robots seamless. Now, consider what means for the future. Amazon: The Leader of the Bleeding Edge of Robotics in Logistics Practice.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Regardless of what the internet hype suggests, offshoring rates have continued to surpass the rates of reshoring from 2012 through 2015, explains A.T. Freight costs of offshoring may exceed the freight costs of domestic shipping. . Is Reshoring Outperforming Offshoring ?

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 24, 2015

April 23, 2015. Given my focus on this topic here in 2015, I thought it would be appropriate to repost that list, which I think is a good one. The result was terribly inefficient handling on both sides of the equation, poor space utilization on the cargo ships, freight damage, and high logistics costs. First Thoughts.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. FedEx Corporation FedEx , previously known as Federal Express, is an American multinational freight company founded in 1971 as a system for urgent deliveries. Kuehne + Nagel Inc. Jacobs in 2011.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

3Gtms Announces Freight Claims Management Partnership with TranSolutions. Amazon has been hosting a robot picking challenge for the past couple of years (see my June 2015 post, “ Amazon Tests Robots for Warehouse Item Picking ,” and the video of last year’s winner ), so this patent is not surprising. . Total net revenues decreased 1.6

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Cargobase goes Ocean Freight. September 2016 North American Freight Numbers. This follows Transplace’s acquisition of Canadian third party logistics provider Torus Freight Systems in 2012, and the opening of offices in Calgary and Montreal in 2014. In September 2016, total freight on all modes decreased 2.3

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