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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

As we move into the back half of May, the freight market is starting to show signs of an expedited rebound. . Most states across the US have opened for business in some capacity. Th ese conditions have caused a more favorable freight environment. Regional Freight Volume Update ? . Zipline operates with a unique?

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Company Seeks Creative Solutions from Logistics Partner in BR Williams

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

Founded in 1958, Bill and Ruth started their local, family-owned trucking company in Oxford, Alabama. The dilemma required the company to partner with year-round, temperature-controlled capacity to transport the product. This refrigerated shipping method costs significantly more than the standard 53-foot dry van capacity.

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A Chilling Problem: Temperature Controlled Logistics

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

Founded in 1958, Bill and Ruth started their local, family-owned trucking company in Oxford, Alabama. The dilemma required the company to partner with year-round, temperature-controlled capacity to transport the product. This refrigerated shipping method costs significantly more than the standard 53-foot dry van capacity.

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

PINC

Coming into 2019, issues like the tariff wars, driver shortage, and rising freight rates were high on transportation managers’ radar screens. Freight rates have leveled off (and even retreated, in some cases). Reefer freight rates continue to drop, with a current national average of $2.14 Starlite Trucking, and LME.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up

Supply Chain Matters

based Alabama and Georgia production facilities. Moeller Maersk in conjunction with the reporting of Q3 quarterly financial performance announcing that the company will cut more than 10,000 jobs amid a current surplus of shipping vessels, sharply lower freight rates and contracting levels of shipping demand.

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

As the logistics industry reexamines capacity challenges ahead of the 2022 holiday shipping season, SupplyChainDive gathered a group of transportation experts to discuss how shippers should prepare for a potentially tough peak season. port capacity is close to maxing out, potentially forcing ports to invest in costly construction projects.

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Supply Chain Disruptions? Everything’s Clearer with the Right TMS Technology

TMC

Raw material shortages lead to delays in production, which decreases your lead time and makes your freight more critical than usual. it’s watermelon season in Alabama, so carrier capacity is suddenly an added constraint. There is suddenly a need to know—in very specific detail—the answers to questions like: Where is my freight?