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U.S./Mexico Shipping Series Part 3: Transportation Success is More than a Low Rate per Mile

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Mexico Shipping Series Part 3: Transportation Success is More than a Low Rate per Mile.Transportfolio by C.H. Let’s take a look at three companies that have moved beyond some of the basic best practices like rate benchmarking and constrain based bids. A heavy equipment company focuses on claims. The post U.S./Mexico

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15-19, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Con-way Freight Raises the Bar on Mexico Service, Adds Door-to-Door Tracking, 24-Hour Customer Resource Center, Enhanced Web Tools. Source data is a combination of reference and benchmark data from third parties as well as econometric models and formulas. And finally, UPS raised a red flag by lowering its full-year EPS expectations.

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COP21 – Freight and Climate Change

Freightos

COP21, the Paris Climate change conference taking place this week got us thinking what the carbon cost was for shipping the TV. A quick check showed that shipping the TV from Taiwan to Nashville (ocean & trucking) led to about 6.7 kg of carbon emissions. The broader climate issue.and freight’s role. It’s not just trucks.

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

In 1966, HEINEKEN became one of the first Dutch companies to adopt container shipping. Decades later, they would debut a climate-efficient shipping route between their brewery and the port of Rotterdam. For instance, Mexico uses its own strategic planning tool. Change management played a huge role.

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Hurricane Harvey - Effects, Forecasts, and Operational Best Practices

Elementum

As a center of petro-chemical industry and a conduit of trucking and rail out of Mexico, the key supply chain hub is currently devastated by Hurricane Harvey. Benchmark European gasoline refining margins spiked nearly 9% on Tuesday to their highest since April after more than 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of U.S.

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

In 1966, HEINEKEN became one of the first Dutch companies to adopt container shipping. Decades later, they would debut a climate-efficient shipping route between their brewery and the port of Rotterdam. For instance, Mexico uses its own strategic planning tool. Change management played a huge role.

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

In 1966, HEINEKEN became one of the first Dutch companies to adopt container shipping. Decades later, they would debut a climate-efficient shipping route between their brewery and the port of Rotterdam. For instance, Mexico uses its own strategic planning tool. Change management played a huge role.

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