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Doing Business in Spain

QAD

Industrial production is growing at about 4% annually as of 2017. Spain has 99 airports with paved runways, most of which can handle freight planes. billion mt-km of air freight in 2015. In addition, the country has 10 heliports, making air travel and freight delivery a relatively simple matter. billion worth of goods.

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Transportation Trends: What’s Going on in the Trucking Industry?

PINC

Coming into 2019, issues like the tariff wars, driver shortage, and rising freight rates were high on transportation managers’ radar screens. Freight rates have leveled off (and even retreated, in some cases). Reefer freight rates continue to drop, with a current national average of $2.14 Terrill Transportation Inc.

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Doing Business in Singapore

QAD

billion GDP in 2017 , giving it the seventh highest per capita rate in the world. annually as of 2017. Singapore has nine airports with paved runways and moved 6,154,365,275 mt-km of freight on registered air carriers as of 2017. In 2017, Singapore exported $396.8 Imports in 2017 totaled $312.1

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Strong US Economy Fueling Supply Chain Opportunities: State of Logistics Report

Material Handling & Logistics

The report identifies several concepts that look to have high impact across the next decade: uberization of freight; blockchain; fully autonomous trucks; artificial intelligence applications; truck platooning; electric vehicle fleets; autonomous mobile robots; and drone and unmanned aerial vehicle delivery systems. trillion, or 7.7%

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Market Monitor of Turkish domestic logistics market

Supply Chain Movement

Dun & Bradstreet studies suggest that Turkish growth will slow down over the period of 2013-2017. Although exports are increasing, Turkey remains a net importing country specifically for energy, high tech, industrial and consumer goods. Market Monitor: Turkish domestic Freight and Distribution.

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3 Questions CPG Companies Need to Ask Their Logistics Provider Now

Zipline Logistics

That applies to any organization but is especially true for those in the consumer goods sector.? . For many logistics providers, including large publicly-traded organizations, freight from these distressed sectors make up a significant portion of their order volume.? . How Financially Strong Were They Before COVID-19?? .

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This Week in Logistics News (April 23-27, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Freight Costs Weighing on Earnings at Consumer-Goods Makers (WSJ – sub. Last November, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry (such as the difference between cement and concrete).