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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

What Berglund is referring to is the advantage that shipping lines hold for negotiations with cargo shippers for 2022 and beyond. Three former SpaceX engineers have founded Parallel Systems , a firm specializing in autonomous battery-powered electric rail vehicles for shipping and freight. By 2030, the Coca-Cola Co.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

The retailer says snacks and beverages are the most popular items sent by drone. between December 15th and December 25th, Momentum Commerce found that the share of products with an “Arrives after Christmas” tag in Amazon’s Buy Box in 2023 was 10.2 The German company offers planes, trains and trucks to move goods globally.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

But for a lot of kids, it may have been Fisher-Price’s Chatter Telephone, which debuted sixty years ago. According to Best Buy, the limited-edition model is available for $60 and works through a Bluetooth connection from users’ cell phones. UPS posts record-breaking profits, plans to hike prices. Gopuff arrives in New York.

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How Connecting Your TMS Saves Time and Money

CH Robinson Transportfolio

In your personal life, you can use a variety of devices to make purchases—from your phone to your smart TV, it’s all possible within whatever device you’re using. In fact, today you can procure freight rates from your transportation providers right in your TMS. Freight in new lanes out of bid cycle. Specialized project freight.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 20-24, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Price-Fixing Probe (WSJ – sub. January 2017 North American Freight Numbers. NAFTA freight totaled $88.0 NAFTA freight increased from the same month of the previous year. NAFTA freight increased from the same month of the previous year. Mexico freight flows increased by 6.3 in February. Looking at U.S.-Mexico

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How To Start Your Brewery On The Path To Success

Unleashed

Don’t purchase any supply chain solution that is not Cloud or SaaS based. That means you can buy it as a remote online service (SaaS) paying typically by user per month, or buy and install the software on the cloud. Don’t buy any solution from a supplier that has no brewing sector experience. Costed Purchase Orders.

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How to Calculate Dimensional Weight and Why It Matters

Ware2Go

With the explosion of multichannel eCommerce , carriers realized their pricing technique left out a crucial component – the finite amount of storage space in their trains, aircraft, trucks, shipping containers. Last mile carriers use DIM weight to calculate shipping prices. What is DIM Pricing?