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This Week in Logistics News (December 8-12, 2014)

Talking Logistics

October 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Here are some excerpts from the press releases: Originally opened in 2012 with a focus on the fast growing temperature controlled transportation segment, the C.H. Robinson office in Rotterdam, The Netherlands has increased it’s offering to incorporate the entire C.H.

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Ready For the Next Port Crisis?

Talking Logistics

Those same words were said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. The serious and negative impacts this dispute left on the economy demonstrates why we cannot let this happen again.”.

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EcoVadis and Nexio Projects Partner Up to Host the B2B Sustainability Forum

EcoVadis

On October 2, 2019, EcoVadis and Nexio Projects held the B2B Sustainability Forum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, bringing together 80+ attendees to learn how companies are moving their CSR program beyond compliance and into maturity. Walmart saves $1 billion per year through freight efficiency.

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EcoVadis and Nexio Projects Partner Up to Host the B2B Sustainability Forum

EcoVadis

Earlier this fall, EcoVadis and Nexio Projects held the B2B Sustainability Forum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, bringing together 80+ attendees to learn how companies are moving their CSR program beyond compliance and into maturity. Walmart saves $1 billion per year through freight efficiency.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

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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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

Netherlands. Netherlands Antilles. According to the figures by Armstrong & Associates for 2012 to 2013, global 3PL revenues rose only modestly (by 2.7%), while the growth rate in Germany was just 0.87% and a meagre 0.01% in Europe as a whole. Micronesia, Federated States of. Moldova, Republic of. Montenegro. Montserrat.