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This Week in Logistics News (April 27 – May 3)

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And now on to this week’s logistics news. in push for freight decarbonization China e-commerce exports, unreliable Red Sea shipping boost air cargo Sephora is expanding its take-back and refillables programs Amazon announced that it delivered to Prime subscribers at its “fastest speed ever” in its quarterly earnings on Tuesday.

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The Green Corridor: Looking for the Green Lining

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The Green Corridor: Looking for the Green Lining by Timothy Foote, Director Transportation & Network APAC at Asendia and Founder of Susymbio 2023 is soon enough to end, and the transformation to a clean logistics future moves forward. My 2024 predictions for these modes is that ocean shipping transformation will continue.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 3 – 9)

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And now on to this week’s logistics news: Amazon in the news: Amazon closes, abandons plans for dozens of U.S. ” Freight rates on the main ocean trade routes are sinking during what is typically the industry’s peak season after cargo owners shipped holiday goods early and inflation dented consumer demand. warehouses.

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Milestone: Freightos Celebrates One Million Transactions!

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Aimee Loshinsky January 25, 2024 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo In Freightos Q4 2023 KPI press release , we announced that the company surpassed one million bookings across the platform in 2023. Freight is digitizing itself now at real scale.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 30 – October 6)

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And now on to this week’s logistics news. They have pushed through annual general rate increases of more than 30% from 2019 to 2024, and are often nearly lock step on pricing. The post This Week in Logistics News (September 30 – October 6) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. or UPS Inc.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 17 – 23)

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And now on to this week’s logistics news. The seasonal hiring total is smaller than last year when Walmart added 150,000 mostly permanent and full-time associates, as well as 20,000 supply chain workers to help alleviate logistic bottlenecks. Let the holiday season begin. Walmart in the news: Walmart Canada brings AI to the shelves.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 4 – 10)

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And now on to this week’s logistics news. The company plans to resume opening new Fresh stores in 2024, after a pause of more than a year. Inventory discipline is showing up in cargo numbers. For the full year, NRF and Hackett are expecting import cargo volume to have declined 13 percent versus last year. billion as U.S.