The Logistics of Logistics
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Jeff is the CEO of Tucker Company Worldwide , the oldest privately-held freight brokerage in North America, specializing in notoriously complicated freight, like temperature-controlled, oversized, and high-value, high-security shipments. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, the world’s hub for oil and gas. Event Program.
The Logistics of Logistics
DECEMBER 29, 2021
After his departure from Conrail, he worked at the Union Pacific Railroad where he held various positions in the Transportation Department including General Manager of UP’s Houston and Gulf Coast Service Units. A double-stacked train can move more freight than hundreds of trucks. . Great option for high-volume shippers. Reliability.
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Intelligent Audit
DECEMBER 29, 2021
Air freight Is Rising. Air freight rates have been a major story throughout 2021. kg, according to the Freightos Air Freight Index. While rates dipped over the course of the year, another spike occurred on July 12, 2021 ($4.74kg), and as of the most recent data available, rates are sitting at $4.41/kg.
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 30, 2021
As I wrote about two weeks ago, Domino’s is now partnering with Nuro in Houston to make robocar deliveries. Applications are due by July 2021, with the program looking to reduce deforestation between 2022 and 2026. According to the American Trucking Association (ATA), almost 75 percent of all freight is transported by truck.
Ware2Go
JANUARY 10, 2022
The 2021 holiday shopping season was characterized by high freight rates, elevated lead times , and over-crowded warehouses. However, after a year and a half of increased consumer demand and manufacturing shutdowns that significantly stressed the supply chain, many merchants began planning early for the 2021 holiday season.
Talking Logistics
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
In response to Hurricane Harvey, for example, JDRF and other organizations shipped more than 3,750 pounds of donated diabetes supplies to Houston (including 200,000 syringes, 50,000 pen needles and 20,000 alcohol pads) to help people with diabetes affected by the hurricane. Global air freight rises again in July: IATA (Reuters).
Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 11, 2022
XPO Logistics to spin off freight brokerage. CEVA Logistics using self-driving trucks to move freight. XPO Logistics plans to split its freight brokerage, European, and intermodal businesses apart from its US trucking operation, which will dismantle the large freight and supply-chain operation it has built over the last decade.
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