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Beyond LTL & Truckload: The Expedite All Approach to Smaller Truck Solutions with Mike Ernst

The Logistics of Logistics

Our extensive, carefully vetted carrier network offers access to more than 9,000 cargo vans, box trucks, and straight trucks. About Mike Ernst Mike Ernst , President of Expedite All, brings over 25 years of experience in the logistics industry to the company. on-time performance rate.

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Container rates surging as shippers rush ahead of deadlines – June 10, 2025 Update

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America weekly prices fell 1% to $5.27/kg. America weekly prices increased 2% to $1.86/kg. If the court restores China’s US de minimis eligibility, some of the sharp drop in B2C e-commerce air cargo volumes could return to the market. Asia-Mediterranean prices (FBX13 Weekly) increased 32% to $4,285/FEU. China – N.

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Better Inventory Management Requires International Suppliers To Step Up to Digital Transformation and Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

Just last year many were chartering their own cargo ships to get all these goods to their destinations.) While consumers may see some short-term benefit in the form of discounted goods, many retailers have had to reset investor expectations , reflecting the expected hit on margins from carrying so much inventory.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

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Department of Transportation, which has selected 37 projects to be given funds made available by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (BIL) Mega Program and the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program. Multiple members of the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) were the recipients of the funds.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Gathers Steam

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The airline lobbying group Airlines for America announced in March that its member carriers will all go green by 2050. In many organizations, freight shipping has become static: companies use air cargo because that’s what they’ve always done. For retailers, supply chain sustainability is part of the conversation about inventory.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

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Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. Inventories at U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 22 – 28)

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The company said that it has already replaced 95 percent of the plastic air pillows with paper filler in North America and is working toward complete removal by year’s end. It is the company’s largest plastic packaging reduction effort in North America to date and will remove almost 15 billion plastic air pillows from use annually.