Cathy Roberson

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Holiday retail sales estimates from consulting firms range from no change from last year to between 3% and 7% growth from the 2022 holiday season. Catch my twice-a-week column on air cargo, freight forwarding, the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo Next. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Freightos

JANUARY 3, 2024

In 2021 and 2022 an extreme surge in demand for goods that overwhelmed ports was the main culprit of disruptions and spiking rates. Still No Major Air Cargo Ramifications In air cargo, some analysts are expecting the delays in ocean freight to lead to some shift of more urgent volumes to sea-air services or air cargo alternatives.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 31, 2023

Throughout 2022 and into the holiday season, promotions were used to offload as much as possible of the front-end inventory to make way for new seasonal inventory. Catch my twice-a-week column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo Next.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 3, 2023

What a whirlwind the 2022 Freight Market was – we saw inflation, fuel prices, and freight rates hit record highs. According to Forbes , many inflated costs finally began declining in November 2022 like the price of energy, medical costs, airfares, and used cars. we faced in June of 2022. Economic Factors . Inflation .

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 20, 2023

However, many of these retailers had to resort to mark-downs, at the expense of revenue, to move out most, if not all, inventories that filled up warehouses and arrived at inopportune times due to transportation delays throughout 2022. Thanks for reading Rethinking supply chains! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But what if, despite huge progress – dozens of digitized carriers representing over half of air cargo capacity, hundreds of thousands of real-time bookings, more and more solutions built around it – what if…we admitted that today, right now, it’s not really digital. Or, rather, only a small percentage is.

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