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Which States are Making the Grade in Logistics?

Material Handling & Logistics

Content Summary: Kentucky ranks 3rd in the nation in total air cargo shipments. The Port brings over 13-million tons of cargo through the Cleveland Harbor, resulting in $3.5 Content Summary: Texas' 380 airports, including 26 commercial airports, make up the second-largest state airport system in the United States. Media Type.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

Strategies include sourcing more items directly from manufacturers to improve margins, SKU rationalization and space reduction, “show more carry less” and assisted-store ordering. And it works: in August 2015, Coyote became a UPS company , and by 2016, it had more than 2,000 employees with numerous offices nationwide.

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Billable Weight Explained: How to Reduce Future Shipping Costs

ShipBob

Until 2015, carriers used a package’s actual weight and shipping distance to calculate its shipping costs. After realizing this cost model didn’t make sense for lightweight packages that took up cargo space and reduced each shipment’s capacity, they transitioned to billable weight for shipments 16oz or greater.

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Climate Change and the Supply Chain

Elementum

The year 2017 has been catastrophic in terms of natural disasters, particularly hurricanes; in August, Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of coastal Texas and prompted the shutdown of several ports and petrochemical complexes in the region. Apple is also one of the largest companies that are committed to fight climate change.

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A Green Future For Freight: Eric Beckwitt at COP22

Freightera

This is based on work from the European parliament in 2015. Notice what’s happening here – around 2015 where the emissions begin to take off. So you really need to be sourcing whenever possible, as industries, we need to be sourcing stuff locally. We have that for lots of resources.

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

6 River Systems

Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. It started in 1969 as DHL Air Cargo, and by the late 1970s, the company had expanded its operations and offered services throughout the world. TNT was founded in 1946 in Australia and EGL was founded in Texas in 1984.