The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 18, 2021

Chris Pickett is the Lead Market Analyst and Founder of Pickett Research, LLC – an independent market research firm focused exclusively on the dynamics that drive US truckload freight rates. He earned a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, an M.Eng. in Logistics from MIT, and an MBA from Georgia Tech.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 29, 2023

When COVID hit in early 2020, the slow and steady approach seemed right once more in hindsight. This shift is more prominent in North America as they have typically, bigger houses and therefore, more scope for concepts such as a home gym and home office. However, not long after, consumer spending behavior changed significantly.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2021

However, freight shipping is the one activity that presents significant barriers to overseas-market entry, as you may have discovered if your business is starting to look across international borders for its next step in expansion. Container shortages and sky-high freight rates have spared no enterprise, regardless of its scale.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Global challenges, including port congestion, fuel costs, governmental policies and the ongoing pandemic will be among the factors affecting over-the-road hauling across North America as we look forward through this year and beyond. When freight capacity is this tight, carriers are selective about who they do business with.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars Wrigley chose Transplace, now UBER Freight, for North America and a partnership with Maersk/E2Open for ocean freight. The Journey Begins Mars Wrigley began working with Aera in 2020 in the US. Mars Wrigley is achieving success in North America with this solution. Planners are far more efficient.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the race to fill distribution centers and store shelves with inventory for the holidays, some of the world’s largest retailers and ecommerce sellers are jumping ahead of smaller competitors by chartering ships, shifting freight to air, re-rerouting inland shipments, and hiring more staff for distribution centers and other supply chain nodes.

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Stord

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Tech in Motion Names Regional Winners for Timmy Awards, Next Round with Industry Experts ATLANTA, October 13, 2020 – STORD was unveiled by Tech in Motion as the Best Tech Startup Regional Winner in Atlanta, GA. Stord is on a mission to help leading companies build and scale optimized, cloud-based supply chains.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

As an example, the Transportation Manager at Kimberly-Clark discussed the results their company has achieved with Blue Yonder: “Blue Yonder transportation management immediately began generating up to $14 million a year in freight cost reductions in North America compared to our previous manual methods.

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2021

According to a Logistics Management survey of industry professionals, “there is a strong sentiment that the 2021 Peak Season will be more active than it was a year ago, with 79% of respondents indicating that will be the case, with 16% contending it will be similar to 2020, and 5% expecting it to be less active.”. Supply Side Constraints.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Above-average holiday shipping seasons in 2020 and 2021 led to an above-average returns rate in the usual Quiet Season. Now, it’s also important to realize that produce grown in North America may not be subject to lockdowns in Shanghai, but there’s another factor at play. Q2: The Produce Shipping Season.

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Zipline Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2020

Despite a pandemic that has disrupted many parts of the global supply chain, the freight market has been on a recent tear. Whether those conditions will continue for the remaining months of 2020 remains to be seen. Simply put, there is more freight than available trucks, which has severely tightened capacity and driven up rates.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 17, 2020

Our recent trips to Costco and Walmart, in mid March 2020, had one thing in particular in common. A few weeks ago, in mid February 2020, when the panic was starting to set in with respect to the Coronavirus we saw some people buying a lot of toilet paper. Coronavirus Exposes Global Supply Chain Fragility!

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Freightera

JANUARY 13, 2021

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, January 12, 2021 ( Newswire.com ) – Freightera, a leading online freight marketplace, is pleased to announce Jonathan Shakes, former Director of Product Management and Director of Software Engineering at Amazon, has joined the executive team as Head of Product Development. ” About Freightera.

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Freightera

MARCH 1, 2022

Freightera CEO wins award for elegant marketplace solution for businesses, reducing shipping cost and CO2 emissions from freight transportation. Starting in North America, Freightera is automating freight transportation, making shipping easy, accessible, and green. About Freightera.

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Freightera

APRIL 16, 2020

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 15, 2020 (Newswire.com) – Freightera , a leading online freight marketplace offering instant freight quotes and streamlining shipping operations for manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors in Canada and the U.S., Media Contact. ?Eric Eric Beckwitt. 604-899-4081. Source: Newswire.

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Turvo

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In fact, the yearly turnover rate for major truckload carriers increased to 92% in 2020, while it increased to 74% for smaller freight carriers. Despite the slump all industries faced post the pandemic, truck driver turnover rates rose by double digit percentage points in 2020.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

The technology provider has reportedly experienced explosive growth since the release of its platform in 2020 with consecutive rankings by Deloitte and Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America. governmental agencies to include U.S.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

According to data from the Consumer Brands Association (CBA), CPG sales in 2020 grew by 9.4% As a result, enterprises involved at all stages of getting a product to market faced an interesting 2020. The study analyzed supply chain performance at manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers throughout 2020. cost per case.

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Zipline Logistics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The past three quarters have been anything but typical for the freight market and the domestic economy at-large. It has been a tale of two extremes for much of 2020. The arrival of COVID-19 sent freight volumes skyrocketing to keep up with panic buying at retailers nationwide. What Is Driving the 2020 Freight Market?

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

2020 will live long in the memory as a year that was overshadowed by a remorseless pandemic causing untold disruptions for the container, logistics and ports industry across the world. On June 23rd, an Egyptian court seized the ship and its 18.300 containers, after the Suez Canal Authority filed a 900 million compensation.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2018

20, compared with three in the same week last year, according to online freight marketplace DAT Solutions LLC. Digital freight and blockchain topped the list, while driverless trucks and drones were at the bottom. As I’ve said before, it takes a lot more than a mobile app to succeed in the freight transportation industry.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 20, 2022

… Authorities have now imposed restrictions on Beijing, while the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a gateway for air freight, also limited the movement of people in May.” In some key trading routes, such as Asia–Europe and Asia–North America, the rate spikes are even higher and the delays more frequent.”[4].

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

Canadian Pacific is the sixth-largest North America freight railway, and in December 2021 completed an agreement to acquire U.S. Upwards of 3,000 rail workers reportedly returned to work yesterday to resume rail operations across North America after a breakdown in labor settlement talks occurred last Saturday.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 7, 2020

September 22, 2020, marked the first day of fall in the United States. Floral season’s imbalance shifts toward the Southeast and produce season primarily impacts the West and Southeast regions of North America. Robinson has the largest network in North America and can provide the scale you need in any market.

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 8, 2019

The economic forecasts are mixed overall, which adds to uncertainty in other freight-producing sectors," wrote DAT analyst Mark Montague in a research note. China’s National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Transport have released plans to build 30 logistics hubs by 2020 and 150 by 2025. Click the link now.

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Zipline Logistics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This notion rings especially true with CPG shippers since the freight requires higher service levels than other non-time-sensitive freight to arrive at its destination on time. If you have freight that requires high service levels, you should not look to a general provider and expect best outcomes.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

DAT’s Accelerated Freight Matching Launches with New Load Board App for Carriers and Paperless Onboarding Service for Brokers. R2 Freight & Logistics, Inc. October Air Freight Demand Up 8.2% – Fastest Growth in 18 Months (IATA). Ryder has a network of over 800 service locations in North America today.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Rickenbacker International Airport was a bustling hub for air freight well before the pandemic—a day’s truck drive to half of the U.S. International freight being unloaded at Rickenbacker airport. a digital freight forwarder. from 2020 and a 5.4% population, so the slogan goes. Photographer: Megan Jelinger/Getty Images.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

The huge build-up of containers at China’s docks has created a major ocean freight imbalance, with a shortage of cargo in US and European ports and a shortfall in boxes needed by Western exporters to ship products to other parts of the world. Ocean Freight. Air Freight. Ocean Freight. Air Freight.

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Freightera

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Freightera, the innovative online freight marketplace, just won the 2020 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 award. business shippers instant access to fixed-cost, all-inclusive freight quotes from the best-performing and lowest-emission transport companies. VANCOUVER, B.C., About Freightera.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

After the initial supply shocks to certain commodities (think the toilet paper shortages of March 2020), consumers under lockdown began radically changing their spending habits in the medium-term to correspond to a shifting way of life. Here’s an example: Every year, a huge volume of finished goods are shipped from Asia to North America.

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Freight Plus

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

New England Motor Freight, a 40-year staple of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, stunned the shipping world Monday by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy liquidation. The trucks currently ride with a safety driver in the event of any systems failures, however the company plans to do away with all human operators by 2020. largest U.S.

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Parade

OCTOBER 5, 2020

San Francisco, CA June 11, 2020 — Parade and DAT Solutions have partnered to integrate key products and features from DAT into the market leading capacity management platform. The integration - born out of the growing expectation for freight brokerages to become natively digital - will provide Parade customers with access to DAT’s RateView.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

James Winebrake, Dean of College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology There are a number of important trends happening in the freight industry, spanning all modes of transportation: trucking, shipping, rail, pipeline, and air. Lastly, air freight has been increasing rapidly over the past decade - a trend I suspect will continue.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

billion in October 2020. Founded in 2000, Germany based Transporeon provides a digital freight platform the supports more than 1,200 shippers, 100 large retailers, and over 120,000 logistics services providers and carriers. Coupa’s stock trended down 7 percent on the news of this acquisition. BOND , and Scale Venture Partners.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

.- World Economic Forum, The future of last-mile ecosystem, Jan 2020. The last mile delivery market size in North America is expected to grow by USD 59.81 Technavio, Last Mile Delivery Market in North America by Service and Geography – Forecast and Analysis 2021-2025, Jan 2021. But things have changed today.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Many functions are required to complete this, including: Maritime, road freight, digital freight, truck, and/or air delivery services. Freight forwarding. The logistics sector is rapidly growing and there is no shortage of groundbreaking technology and premiere partners in North America, Europe, and beyond.

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