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Navigating Uncharted Waters: SMB Importers, 2024 and Red Sea Crisis Lessons

Freightos

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Phone This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. For example, the Freightos Baltic Index indicates a 69% increase to North America’s East Coast and a staggering 226% to Northern Europe since the crisis began.

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November 15, 2023 Update

Freightos

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Email This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox. Transatlantic rates increased 9% last week, but at $1,108/FEU remain 43% lower than in 2019.

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Freightera Featured in North America Cargo Logistics Conference in Vancouver on Feb 5, 2020

Freightera

Freightera CEO to Open the Cargo Tech Track at the 2020 Cargo Logistics Canada Expo in Vancouver. The 7 th Cargo Logistics Canada Expo & Conference will be held at Vancouver Convention Centre from Feb 4 to Feb 6 2020 , will consist of networking events, a conference program, and various exhibits. Be there, be the future!

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-up: Regulator Approves Canadian Pacific Merger with KCS and Added Rivian Development

Supply Chain Matters

In this update, we note the approval of a significant merger involving North America rail service and an additional development involving Amazon and Rivian Automotive related to an ongoing EV parcel van delivery contract. bound cargo. ” counterparts from the transport of U.S. All rights reserved.

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Supply Chain Transformation: Not Just Digital, But Physical Too

Talking Logistics

Over the past couple of years, we have published many blog posts and produced several video episodes on supply chain digital transformation (see our archives ). It is a bigger annual expense, adjusted for inflation, than when UPS broadened from a ground operation and built up its cargo airline in the 1980s.

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Continued Disruption and Added Cost Inflation Reflected in Key Global Transportation and Logistics Indices in March and Q1 2022

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights an added dimension to our monthly summary of global supply chain activity trending and implications. Data published at the end of March indicates that for movement of ocean container shipping transit from Asia to North America , the average time had declined to 108 days, upwards of 15.4

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. Break-bulk loaded cargo was poorly secured required a Tetris-like approach to handle diverse sizes of packages. Small trucker, Malcom McLean, fumes at slow loading of cargo aboard ship – “There has to be a better way.”.

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