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FreightFest 2023 with Rahmel Wattley

The Logistics of Logistics

Rahmel Wattley and Joe Lynch discuss the FreightFest 2023. FreightFest 2023 is presented by Truck N’ Hustle. In 2015, after seeing an opportunity in driver turnover, he started a CDL driver staffing company with a partner. Rahmel is a transportation entrepreneur and host of the popular trucking podcast, Truck N’ Hustle.

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What’s Next for The Freight Market with Chris Pickett

The Logistics of Logistics

Joe Lynch and Chris Pickett discuss what’s next for the freight market. Chris is the Chief Operating Officer at Flock Freight , a technology company that is on a mission to solve the US trucking industry’s wasted capacity problem. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, an M.Eng.

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Reports of Convoy Winding Down Digital Freight Business

Supply Chain Matters

Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and other industry specific media are reporting that Seattle based digital freight start-up services provider Convoy is preparing for a possible sale or other action. Both reports cite declining freight industry demand and increased competition among start-ups in this digital freight and logistics segment.

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Reports That Convoy Exploring Strategic Options

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech updates readers on reports indicating that innovative digital freight brokerage start-up Convoy is exploring strategic options. In turn, that has put pressure on traditional and digital freight brokers who typically sell their logistics services to shippers on a contract rate basis.

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Realities Impact the Global Ocean Container Industry

Supply Chain Matters

In a Supply Chain Matters blog commentary published as far back as March of 2015 , we addressed efforts directed at introducing ever larger mega container ships, multi-carrier capacity agreements, outsourcing of certain services and increased transit times and tariff rates compound themselves to secure rate advantages.

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Disrupting Logistics: 4 Innovative Blockchain Startups to Watch in 2018

Techgistics

trillion in 2023. CargoX CargoX founded in 2015 and based in Slovenia is building a digital blockchain-based smart bill of lading that can be encrypted and securely recorded on the blockchain. Paper bills of lading are still the norm for sea-freight shipments and create a whole host of process inefficiencies and additional costs.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world part 2

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The MEPC member states agreed to revisit the emissions targets in 2023. Governments can’t keep kicking the can down the road; every delay moves us further away from reaching pressing climate goals,” said Guy Platten, secretary general of the International Chamber of Shipping. If we wait until nature forces us, the cost will be astronomical.”.