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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

DHL Global Forwarding actually got started by taking ocean freight documents by air to expedite release along a new West Coast-Hawaii ocean line. Since air cargo is prohibitively expensive, it’s usually limited to smaller, high-value goods or time sensitive items, such as: Electronics. Seasonal trends in clothing can shift fast.

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Who’s Catching the Holiday Shopping Fever?

Enterra Insights

behind Hawaii, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alaska. According to the RetailMeNot survey, 69 percent will purchase small electronics, 58 percent will purchase apparel; 42 percent will purchase shoes; 35 percent will purchase TVs and laptops; 27 percent will purchase tablets; and 25 percent will purchase jewelry. Concluding thoughts.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

To start, Amazon is offering same-day delivery from apparel stores PacSun, Diesel and Superdry, as well as vitamin retailer GNC, in 10 cities across the US The service is free for Prime members when they spend $25 or more, or $2.99 if they spend less than $25. That’s all for this week.

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Hollywood’s Top 10 Supply Chain Disaster Movies

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An earthquake of this magnitude would severely impact apparel, computers, electronics, and transportation products. The actual volcano also triggered a series of tsunamis as far away as South America and Hawaii. In the actual Krakatoa eruption, ash fell in a 300,000 square-mile radius , halting ships for two and a half days.