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

PINC

Here are the top trucking trends that all shippers should be aware of, according to The American Transportation Research Institute. Coming into 2019, issues like the tariff wars, driver shortage, and rising freight rates were high on transportation managers’ radar screens. 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’s transportation and communication infrastructure are both strong, making Singapore one of the easiest countries in the world to deal with when it comes to moving goods. In 2017, Singapore exported $396.8

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Doing Business in Spain

QAD

Industrial production is growing at about 4% annually as of 2017. The supply chain infrastructure in Spain is strong due to its robust transportation and communications systems. As far as Spain’s transportation system, it’s rail system is the most developed and one of the best in Western Europe. million people as of 2017. .

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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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Combat Rising Transportation Costs and Driver Shortage With Supply Chain Analytics

Savi

Supply Chain Challenges: Freight Volume Rising, Driver Shortage Growing The shipping industry plays a critical role in world economics. Today’s driver shortage is helping to drive transportation costs higher. The white line is consumer goods, minus food and energy.

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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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How Product Design Impacts the Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

A product might be attractive for customers but drive unnecessary supply chain costs because of the impact the product design has on sourcing, packaging, production, warehousing and transportation. Transportation. Volume and weight of products drive some of the main costs in transportation.