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Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions

Freightos

More Resources Home Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions Joyce Tai April 2, 2024 If there’s one lingering lesson from the supply chain crisis of COVID, it’s that digitization can help organizations navigate crises…but that digitization can’t be put in place DURING that same crisis.

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

Freightos

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. In fact, the hard reality is that looking back over the past decade, supply chains have been disrupted by shipping bankruptcies, wars, pandemics, geopolitics and tariffs.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

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.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

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. Significance.

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The Green Corridor: Looking for the Green Lining

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The number of alternative and dual-fuel propelled container ship orders out numbers the traditional ICE only engines for new ship orders. Aeronautics engineering innovation is sadly only paddling forward in comparison to the ship building industry. Now if only other nations could take a couple pages from their play book.

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The Lowdown on Shipping: Parcel, LTL, and FTL

SupplyPike

Freight and parcel shipping. Freight is defined as commercial goods or cargo carried across land, sea, or air. In 2017 alone, over $1 trillion in goods were moved by freight across North America, with truck continuing to be the most heavily utilized mode at $721 billion. Looking to book a shipment? What is Freight?

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Navigating Ongoing International Transportation Capacity Challenges

Talking Logistics

It is continually important to be proactive about identifying capacity trends and daily shipping reality. Export bookings have also been tight on capacity, and certain export trade lanes have required advanced booking to ensure space. Getting Ahead with Export Space. Drayage Capacity Issues Remain.

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