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The Impact of SOLAS on Ocean Shipping and Data Management

Talking Logistics

The Regulation’s Impact on Ocean Shipping and Data Management. The Regulation and Data Management. However, in today’s information-driven supply chain, data often flows in parallel with the passage of freight. The IMO will not assess penalties since any fines would be levied at the national-level.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

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. With the rising costs of accessorial charges as the freight sat on the dock, moving freight by ocean container grew more problematic.

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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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This Week in Logistics News (June 27 – July 1, 2016)

Talking Logistics

DB Schenker Signs on With uShip Online Freight Platform (WSJ – sub. project44 Achieves Groundbreaking Level of Connectivity with 1000+ Freight APIs. Trucker Path Joins AscendTMS™ to Offer Free Transportation Management Software (TMS) to Carriers and Freight Brokers. Companies like XPO Logistics Inc.

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Towards Successful Digital Transformation – Separating the hype from reality

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Mastering the use of “big data” in logistics, can reduce inefficiencies in last mile deliveries, provide transparency to the supply chain, enhance deliveries timings, protect perishable goods and automate the entire supply chain. The governments are recognising the fact that the usage of emerging technologies is key to a sustainable economy.

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Air Cargo Tech Is Falling Behind. It Doesn’t Have to.

Freightos

In 1995 airlines via online travel marketplaces started selling tickets directly to consumers online and by 2017, 83% of US travellers were using digital channels to book their trips. This effectively enabled travel agents to book flight from their computers far before the internet was built. DISCOVER AIR FREIGHT SOLUTIONS.

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Canadian Shipper: Freightera has a Plan to become the Amazon of the Freight Industry

Freightera

The story is written by Dan Goodwill, one of the top journalists and leading experts on freight transportation in North America. Freightera is one of the only companies that has created a fixed cost model with data directly from carriers. We are thinking about a fully integrated global marketplace,” states CEO Eric Beckwitt. “We