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This Week in Logistics News (March 9-13, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Here’s the news that caught my attention this week: January 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Truckload Freight and Rates Dip Seasonally in February: DAT Freight Index. Cass Freight Index – February 2015. Freight stats dominated the news this week. percent for vans, 3.4

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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

Transportation has followed the same evolutionary pattern, moving upstream from day-to-day freight transactions to an integral component of top-level corporate planning and procurement strategy. As a strategic process, transportation procurement may still seem very tedious and challenging. Disaggregate freight spend data.

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The Transportation Industry Report: Winter 2018-2019

Freight Plus

The report’s author, Donald Broughton, noted that this was “still very impressive given the tougher comparison.”. Demand is exceeding capacity in most modes of transportation by a material amount,” Broughton wrote. “In This continues a year long streak of annual gains that began in November 2017. According to a report by. Intermodal.

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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

Freightos

Not even B2B is spared from these changing expectations (which is why we at Freightos launched an online freight marketplace ). While freight industry executives likely sighed with relief when an update of Amazon’s logistics.amazon.com page on June 28th turned out to be nothing more than a franchise model for courier delivery services.

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Agriculture in the City

Enterra Insights

Food grown close to consumers reduces both transportation costs and food waste. ” 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.

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Talent-Driven Changes in the Managed Services Market

TMC

Managed services solutions offer transportation management system (TMS) software and third-party provider expertise in one package. It’s an attractive combination for shippers that want to outsource the day-to-day management of their freight networks while retaining full control of key decisions.

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Freight economy continues to grow, despite market volatility

DAT Solutions

Despite all the hand-wringing on Wall Street, however, the transportation economy continues to signal economic expansion. Financial markets are largely driven by emotion, but freight flows are not. Also, freight flows are not subjected to the anchoring biases that are found in many models that attempt to predict the broader economy.

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