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What Are General Rate Increases in Shipping & What Should Enterprises Know?

Intelligent Audit

In modern freight transportation services, GRI stands for General Rate Increase. As a shipper, it’s impossible to avoid rate increases at times, and while freight invoice audits help to catch errors, not knowing the facts behind GRIs will only open the doors to risk. FedEx Freight shipping rates will increase by an average of 4.9%

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Logistics at BR Williams

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

After being in this industry for the past year or so, if you were to ask me to explain what “logistics” truly means, the best comparison I can articulate would be to the sport of parkour. Since then, 77,291 shipments in all 48 contiguous states (PLUS Alaska!) have been delivered. We have contracted 8,968 motor carriers.

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Doing Business in the United States

QAD

The last two states added were Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. For comparison, this makes the country about half the size of Russia or South America, and more than twice the size of the European Union. The climate is mostly temperate, but Alaska is arctic, Florida and Hawaii are tropical, and the Great Plains are mostly arid or semi-arid.