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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Covid-19 pandemic tested the global supply chain. More and more cargo shifted to ocean transport until the container imbalances resulted in issues with “rolling the freight” from ship to ship despite confirmed bookings. Check out some of the work that Blume Global is doing in this area.).

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Freight Innovation and the Lesson from a Dead Remote Control Tech Play

Freightos

In this article, we review how carrier and forwarder fragmentation remains one of the most significant hurdles for modern freight, how freight standardization and platformification are posed to change that, and why innovation we can’t even imagine might be around the corner. But as a freight technology junkie, it made sense.

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Supply Chain Trends for 2022: Answers to Your Top Questions

CH Robinson Transportfolio

event of 2022, my colleagues, Christina Carroll, vice president of LTL, Alan Rowlett, director of global operations and strategy, and I set out to offer exactly that. As port congestion continues to be a problem, what’s your view of container track and trace solutions? Do they help gain access to containers sooner?

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Transportation Management System: What is a TMS in Logistics? [+ Top Companies Compared]

ShipBob

Transportation management systems also enable you to automate your freight tendering process. By automatically dispatching carriers, you can significantly expedite steps such as booking and tendering of freight. You can use it to quickly generate bills of landing, conduct freight auditing, and create invoices.

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11 Ways Tech Will Change Logistics in 2017

Freightos

Freight Booking Is (Slowly) Going Online. For years, online freight was limited to US domestic trucking. International freight quoting is moving online too, with major progress by enterprise providers, like Kuehne + Nagel , and startups (like the Freightos Marketplace ). For decades, freight was about bigger ships.