GlobalTranz
APRIL 26, 2016
As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice! Significance.
Freightos
APRIL 24, 2016
The History of the Shipping Container. 26 April 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy. But the modern shipping container has changed much more than one industry. Category Key.
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Supply Chain Matters
MAY 22, 2023
Container Shipping Industry The quarterly performance of ocean container shipping lines continue to reflect decreased volumes and significantly reduced profitability levels amid this industry’s reported 30 percent reduction in scheduled route capacity. The firm’s Maersk Line container shipping business unit reported net profit of $2.3
Logistics Bureau
APRIL 2, 2020
The huge build-up of containers at China’s docks has created a major ocean freight imbalance, with a shortage of cargo in US and European ports and a shortfall in boxes needed by Western exporters to ship products to other parts of the world. Some ports are quarantining arriving ships for 14 days.
Elementum
MAY 13, 2015
Before the mega-retailer started shipping goods through Lazaro Cardenas, the KCS had fallen on hard times. As recently as Fall of 2014, the Lorenzo Cardenas-Houston route handled an average of only 10-20 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) a week. West Coast ports and an increase in interest from companies like Walmart.
Multichannel Merchant
AUGUST 2, 2022
This is just the latest move in Amazon’s manifest destiny to own every aspect of ecommerce and the customer experience, from the click to the door and back again, as well as things like freight forwarding from Asia and express air with its own terminals and a leased fleet of jets.
Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 22, 2022
FedEx Express introduces new routes between Asia and Europe. FedEx Express has announced the launch of a new route between Asia and Europe. Customers in North Asia, including China and Japan, will benefit from increased connection and service dependability as a result of the route. We will have to wait and see.
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