CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 29, 2020

So, it’s important you’re up to date on the latest regulations to avoid your freight being held up. For a closer look at how China’s regulations impact PPE shipping, check out our recent PPE exporting video featuring our director of product development, Vincent Wong. Metered freight solutions. Exporting PPE from China.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry. The firm’s Maersk Line container shipping business unit reported net profit of $2.3

Negotiating Skills 52

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BlueYonder

MAY 14, 2021

One of the factors in that evaluation would also be the freight costs you incurred for that container and any additional costs if you are expediting another shipment. If you were to check the freight invoice, you probably paid four times the cost of the container as compared to last year! Peaking Rates. Chart Source: Freightwaves).

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you’re Home Depot, you reserve an entire ship for your own exclusive use. Real-time transportation visibility platforms tell shippers and their broker/carrier partners where their freight is at any point on its journey. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Late 2021 saw Maersk continue to shift towards vertical integrations, with acquisition of Senator, a German freight forwarder for $644 million dollars. For a forwarder, refraining from working with Maersk today is expensive because it removes 17% of global shipping capacity. Accelerating the shift. Image via StarAir.dk). of the U.S.

Price Reduction 177

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

More Resources Home February 13, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices decreased 35% to $3.91/kg

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

More Resources Home November 7, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices increased 21% to $5.72/kg

Negotiating Skills 285

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More Resources Home February 28, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices increased 32% to $4.8/kg

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Freightos

DECEMBER 28, 2023

More Resources Home December 28, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices were level at $5.85/kg.

Negotiating Skills 194

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

As of January 1, 2022, it was taking a company an average of 73 days to deliver goods to truck or rail carriers after booking with an ocean carrier and completing the cross-ocean journey, according to E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index. In fact, global freight rates have increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rivian Automotive is now free to sell its EV parcel vans to other parcel carriers, and added reinforcement from multiple ocean container shipping carriers that the existing industry volume declines could extend for two to three years. Hyundai Motor America announced this week that the automaker will raise certain U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software 52

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Freightos

JANUARY 10, 2024

More Resources Home January 10, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices fell 8% to $5.36/kg.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

More Resources Home February 22, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices decreased 7% to $3.65/kg

Price Reduction 177

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Freightos

JANUARY 3, 2024

More Resources Home January 3, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices stayed level at $5.85/kg

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Each year around 700 million TEUs are shipped across the world keeping global trade and businesses running and more than eighty percent of global goods trade volumes are carried by sea, with about a sixth of that volume in shipping containers. Transshipment rollovers in South America declined by 3% from 46% to 43% year-on-year.

Supply Chain Design Software 83

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CHAINalytics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Frequent Freightvine podcast guest and Chainalytics’ VP of Transportation Kevin Zweier once again joins DAT’s Chief Scientist Chris Caplice to discuss the current state of transportation procurement. What does it take to build a resilient transportation portfolio? Which COVID-era measures will shippers continue to carry forward?

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

More Resources Home December 19, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices were level at $5.86/kg

Negotiating Skills 223

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 4, 2024

Andy Tomka and Joe Lynch discuss freight-tech for SMB brokers. About Andy Tomka Andy Tomka is the Vice President of Product at MVMNT, a freight-tech company that build transportation managemt systems (TMS) for SMB freight brokers. We merge technology with real-world freight expertise.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Imagine what work would be like if you could offer all customers free two-day shipping. Some customers do not want two-day shipping. They may want three-day shipping, or they may need ship-to-store shipping options. It sounds great, but it comes with problems.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 3, 2019

You can’t just turn around a giant cargo ship. And when shipping to volatile countries, it becomes even harder. companies with global operations, one of the most effective ways to mitigate risk is to ship smarter. Once cargo has shipped, there are no “backsies.” Shipping Overseas. supply chain professional.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 9, 2022

In fact, today you can procure freight rates from your transportation providers right in your TMS. There are many reasons to supplement your spot freight procurement with automated processes sooner rather than later. Freight in new lanes out of bid cycle. Freight in new lanes out of bid cycle. Save money.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

While 209,000 workers were added in June, 14,000 freight and parcel carriers were cut and 6,900 warehousing and storage jobs were lost. Last week we cited a report by The Wall Street Journal indicating that the CEO of the globe’s largest freight forwarder, Kuehne + Nagel , indicated that “ There’s no peak season to be expected in 2023.”

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Ship Smarter: How to Avoid Bottlenecks in Your Global Operations. You can’t just turn around a giant cargo ship. And when shipping to volatile countries, it becomes even harder. And when shipping to volatile countries, it becomes even harder. Once cargo has shipped, there are no “backsies.” By Ali Hasan Raza.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

u can’t just turn around a giant cargo ship. And when shipping to volatile countries, it becomes even harder. companies with global operations, one of the most effective global value chain strategies and supply chain strategies is to mitigate risk by shipping smarter. Once the cargo has shipped, there is no “backsies.”

Material Savings 52

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Robinson’s historical shipping trends show that this seasonal demand growth creates a “fall season,” similar to floral, produce, and grilling seasons. Temperature controlled shipping has four “seasons” based on demand. Typically, the broader shipping marketplace talks about seasonality in terms of produce season and non-produce season.

North America 44

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Then we will cover in subsequent posts what are the benefits of using EDI in transportation along with a transportation management system, we will debunk a few myths, and then we will end the series by highlighting how a shipper at Cerasis used EDI to reduce freight expenditures and resources. What is Electronic Data Interchange?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 2, 2016

This assessment identifies the most important capabilities for which the newly divested company needs to account, which may include functions such as Procurement, Purchasing, Accounting and Supply Chain Operations itself. The potential opportunity to convert a significant portion of operating costs from fixed to variable.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Financial data and visibility into the costs associated with shipping are critical to improving corporate financial performance. Total cost management is just one part of supply chain visibility, but a very important part based on the financial impact that shipping has on the organization. Fraud detection is another key aspect.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

Canadian Pacific is the sixth-largest North America freight railway, and in December 2021 completed an agreement to acquire U.S. Upwards of 3,000 rail workers reportedly returned to work yesterday to resume rail operations across North America after a breakdown in labor settlement talks occurred last Saturday.

Ukraine 52

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2023

He works alongside clients ranging from some of the largest food and beverage businesses in the world to the brightest up-and-coming CPG brands in North America. Starting his career in carrier procurement and management within a Fortune 100 logistics company, Lynch has held positions of responsibility in all areas of third-party logistics.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Founded in 2000, Germany based Transporeon provides a digital freight platform the supports more than 1,200 shippers, 100 large retailers, and over 120,000 logistics services providers and carriers. The company manages operations from eight different global office locations and can converse business in twenty-five different languages.

Supply Chain Design Software 52

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

Global Shipping. The World Container Index , assessed by Drewy Consultants, is a compilation of eight major shipping routes to and from the United States , Europe and Asia. Shipping Transit Timeliness. The Flexport Ocean Timeliness Indicator tracks average ocean container shipping transit times. per 40-foot container.

Global Transportation 52

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Elementum

JUNE 30, 2022

Over the last 2 years, Supply Chain teams have been struggling to procure and manufacture enough inventory. Suppliers will continue to ship orders in an effort to get the inventory off their books. Javier Echevarria has joined Ingredion as their Chief Procurement Officer. Previously Mr. Echevarria was the CEO of VVF Americas.

Procurement Analytics 78

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

consultation firm, runs four ‘Logistics Briefing’ newsletters: Global, Americas, Asia/Pacific and Mergers & Acquisitions. Shipping Gazette Daily News. So much so that it is split into seven topics – aircrafts, airports, capacity and demand, carriers, freight trends, traffic and viewpoints. Weekly/Monthly.

Resource Reduction 120

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

More Resources Home November 21, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices decreased 6% to $5.23/kg

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In America alone, consumers purchase more than $500 billion worth of Chinese goods per year. This indispensable guide offers a helpful run-down of product selection, sourcing suppliers, shipping, and more. China #Import #Export #Logistics #SupplyChain #SCM #Freight. Why Import your Products from China? The Essential Guide!

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