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Canadian Ports: A Fast Lane for Asia-U.S. Imports?

Talking Logistics

West Coast ports continue , causing importers like Lululemon Athletica to delay store shipments by up to 10 days, other shippers are heading to Canada’s West Coast ports, such as Prince Rupert where cargo traffic headed for the U.S. The post Canadian Ports: A Fast Lane for Asia-U.S. has increased 11 percent so far this year.

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Using Technology to build Sustainable Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Sustainability is definitely coming of age in Asia. In fact, IDC predicts that manufacturers across Asia who digitally transform and accelerate sustainable innovation to improve supply chain operations, will increase their revenue by 20 percent in 2025. Making Asia a Leader – One Green Initiative at a Time.

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Managing transportation in times of tight capacity and high rates

Cathy Roberson

Busy times for all of us and in particular supply chain managers who are dealing with capacity constraints, delays, the rise of e-commerce, forecasting in this crazy environment, identifying and analyzing data, and putting the data to use in strategies. Until now. “Customers want data,” Ron said.

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Global Logistics and the Transportation Management Center: The Next Phase in Network Agility

BlueYonder

In my previous article on the evolution of transportation management, Driving Value from a Transportation Management Center: Think Global, Act Local , I discussed how transportation best practices were evolving from more rigid, centralized control towers to more flexible and collaborative Transportation Management Centers (TMC).

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

The Freightos System is SaaS for freight contract management, automatic price quotations, and business intelligence. Break-bulk loaded cargo was poorly secured required a Tetris-like approach to handle diverse sizes of packages. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Significance.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 29 -September 2, 2016)

Talking Logistics

market, and as reported by the Wall Street Journal yesterday: Since the shipping company filed for bankruptcy protection in a Seoul court Wednesday, terminal operators, ports, cargo handlers, truckers and others have refused to handle its cargo, for fear they won’t get paid. Hanjin handles about 7.8 That is causing turmoil at U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 3-7, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Cargo Owners Complain of ‘Total Mess’ Shipping Goods to Asia (WSJ – sub. It didn’t take long for the recently rebranded BluJay Solutions to make its first acquisition: Blackbay , “a leading provider of mobility-enabled solutions for the transport and logistics industry.”