Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

Retailers near restocking as inventory paring winds down A timeline of Amazon’s efforts to curb counterfeit selling Target’s delivery operations evolve with improved capacity, loading speeds Cargo ships lost 661 containers at sea in 2022, WSC report says Panama Canal imposes shipping restrictions US West Coast ports, dock workers ‘on doorstep of agreement’ (..)

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2021

While it remains to be seen whether the coming quarter will live up to expectations, there are multiple powerful predictors hinting that the freight market will not wane in intensity over the coming months. Typically, freight experiences a seasonal boom, starting with back-to-school shopping and concluding following year-end holidays.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

FedEx Express is teaming up with California Bay Area-based Elroy Air, the company building the first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system. Israel Aircraft Industries is remodeling older Air Canada passenger jets to carry heavy freight.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2022

Ford expedites freight to alleviate supplier disruptions in China. However, speeding up shipments and other steps to secure supply have come at a cost, as Ford is spending a lot of money on premium freight and other things to work around COVID escalations in China. Amazon recruiting mom-and-pop shops for rural deliveries.

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DAT Solutions

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

There is a shift underway right now in the refrigerated freight segment. More restaurant spending, more contract freight. The big food service outfits have private fleets, or they work with contract carriers, so the restaurant trend "eats away" at the refrigerated freight volume on the spot market. Two main factors are involved.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 17, 2021

Through 2020, even in the worst periods of the outbreak, when cargo volumes fell, the same was not true of freight rates due to more diligent operators who better handled their capabilities, slashing capacity on the basis of smooth sailings, minimizing cost, profit margins rather than market share, using lower prices of fuel.

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Intelligent Audit

APRIL 20, 2022

While the exact details are not known, there has been a lot to discuss with the shipping giant and the freight market in general. Some freight data and shipping news headlines worth knowing include the following. . Need to know freight audit data like this helps shoppers and carriers keep up with vital market trends.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 4, 2021

These ecommerce trends aren’t going away, and shippers will continue to face the challenge of moving smaller quantities of freight at a higher frequency while navigating capacity issues. Robinson alleviated the supply chain stress was helping companies move their freight to places where regional LTL carriers could pick it up.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 10, 2017

CX North America Integrates Its Freight Collaboration Platform With Active Aero Group’s Technology. January 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). According to the Long Beach Post Telegram : The first live display of automated truck platoons in Southern California appeared to roll without a hitch.

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DAT Solutions

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

California's weather—good or bad—has a major impact on truckload capacity. California supplies nearly 50% of the nation’s produce. Even with the 2016 drought, Ontario and Fresno ranked in the top 10 reefer markets in 2016 for both spot and contract freight (Source: DAT RateView ). Five-year drought ends.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 10, 2022

The Normalcy Index calculated weekly by the Economist projects that North America is 67% of the way back to normalcy from COVID, but globally, it is lower at 50% with many flare-ups. In the United States, fire activity increased in February and March 2022 — fire is not just a California issue.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2023

and at corporate headquarters in Irvine, California. assembly plants and sales operations in North America and Europe. Similar to Tesla’s 2018 escapades, including having to on one occasion, the need to air freight an entire automotive production assembly line from Germany to the U.S.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Frost & Sullivan places Freightera among ‘Key Automated On-Demand Brokerage Solutions in North America’ along with Uber Freight and Convoy. ” Frost & Sullivan research showing Freightera among ‘Key Solutions’ for freight automation and high growth potential to 2025. trillion USD.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 8, 2016

In June 2016, the Panama Canal will double its capacity, and this capacity expansion will undoubtedly reshape the freight flows around the globe, including those transiting through the Port of Los Angeles (click here for a past blog related to this subject). Guillaume Roels. million worldwide.

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Supply Chain Network

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

(NYSE: R), a leader in commercial fleet management , dedicated transportation , and supply chain solutions , announced today it has started to take delivery of 125 medium-duty electric panel vans, the first of their kind in North America, now available for lease or rent. About Chanje.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 24, 2023

California Lemon Growers Remain Optimistic Despite Flooding As the atmospheric river making headlines across the country continues to inundate Californian communities, lemon growers are increasingly concerned about what record-breaking rainfall means for their storage capabilities this winter.

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Parade

MAY 18, 2021

San Francisco, California, May 18, 2021 - Parade , the leader in Capacity Management, and TAI Software , one of the largest cloud-based Transformation Management Systems (TMS) providers in North America, have partnered to bring accelerated Capacity Management and Digital Transformation to 3PLs. About Parade.

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Parade

MAY 18, 2021

San Francisco, California, May 18, 2021 - Parade , the leader in Capacity Management, and TAI Software , one of the largest cloud-based Transformation Management Systems (TMS) providers in North America, have partnered to bring accelerated Capacity Management and Digital Transformation to 3PLs. About Parade.

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Parade

MAY 18, 2021

San Francisco, California, May 18, 2021 - Parade , the leader in Capacity Management, and TAI Software , one of the largest Cloud-based Transformation Management Systems (TMS) providers in North America, have partnered to bring accelerated Capacity Management and Digital Transformation to 3PLs. About Parade.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

ScottsMiracle-Gro currently has warehouses connected to operations for the co-distribution of fertilizer with growing media products at 16 locations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. In the U.S., Phone: 212.704.4593.

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Freightera

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Her focus on sustainability was rekindled when her son suffered from air-pollution-induced asthma in Northern California. If you’d like to see more about what made Zhenya’s battle to make Freightera special, take a look at our Green Freight page which goes in more detail about our mission and how we set ourselves apart from the competition!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In North America we certainly hear a lot about Florida oranges and as such I myself have certainly assumed that Florida was the Orange capital of the world. 70% of production comes from Florida, followed by California. What exactly is the Orange juice Supply Chain and how does it work? The Orange Juice Industry. Within the U.S.

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DAT Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Both those markets are distribution hubs for e-commerce, which has stretched the traditional holiday retail freight season well into December. A lot of holiday freight heading into the Northeast ends up in distribution centers in Allentown, PA, which has led to higher inbound rates there. Van loads heading from L.A.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2020

Produce season transportation can have an impact on your freight, even if you do not ship grains, fruits, or vegetables. The largest impacts start in the South and move their way up the US latitudinally – think Florida to Georgia to North Carolina, and Texas to California to Washington to Oregon. California.

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DAT Solutions

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Higher demand for vans drove load-to-truck ratios up throughout most of North America in the week after Christmas. Then, just when you'd expect the market to calm down, there was another wave of demand this week -- and not enough trucks to deliver the freight. Reefer Rates Soar for Loads Out of Florida and Texas.

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

But there was much more regional movement with refrigerated freight, which is evidence of a pre-Thanksgiving push. Ontario, CA , rates have also been trending up, helped by strong van movement in Southern California. Reefer volumes were mostly in a holding pattern to close the month, similar to the last full week of October for vans.

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Freightera

OCTOBER 1, 2018

1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Canadian freight digitization startup Freightera is honored to announce that CEO Eric Beckwitt has just won the 2019 Clean50 Award for his outstanding contribution to advance the cause of sustainability and clean capitalism in Canada over the past two years. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct.

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Van freight didn't see a big boost in the last full week of October, and rates on the 100 highest-traffic lanes were mostly neutral. Not much happened until the end of the week, when volumes started to climb in Southern California. Lane-by-lane rate information and Hot Market Maps are available in the DAT Power load board.

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 6, 2019

DAT load boards provide the largest and most trusted digital freight marketplace in the trucking industry, with more than 256 million loads and trucks posted annually, plus insights into current spot market and contract rates based on $60 billion in real transactions. Oil-related freight movements from Houston are definitely in a lull.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

These routes are typically found connecting important marketplaces with active commercial trade systems, such as Western Europe, North America, and East Asia. Services to the East Coast of North America from Asia and transit through the Suez Canal have grown in recent years and now make up more than 15% of the traffic it handles.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I love knowing that some carriers are able to be home more often with their families because we offer the most loads of anyone in North America, allowing truck drivers to optimize lane selection and schedules. What the award means to Dayton Freight. Dayton Freight. What the award means to Old Dominion Freight Lines.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 15, 2013

Old Dominion also provide ocean freight service including full container load (FCL) and less-than-container load (LCL) service offerings. Old Dominion operates as a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier primarily in the United States and North America. The company went public in 1991. David Congdon, son of Earl Congdon Jr.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2021

The Save Mart Companies plans to test Simbe Robotics’ Tally shelf-scanning robot at seven California stores to help reduce out-of-stocks and ensure products are where they should be in the aisle. It will be on highway and surface streets, hauling actual freight. Robots in retail stores are nothing new these days.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 7, 2016

Meanwhile, look for the geographic emphasis to start shifting a little farther north, in preparation for a possible rebound in the Midwest, later in Q3. End-of-quarter and pre-holiday freight was even stronger than expected last week in Atlanta , Charlotte and Memphis , which were the top three markets for outbound loads on DAT load boards.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Bed Bath & Beyond @BedBathBeyond Bed Bath & Beyond has discovered a way to save millions of dollars on freight over the next few years, thanks to a new 755,000 square-foot distribution facility slated to open in the fall of 2019. In 2016, the company increased its EBIT in the Americas by 40%, with continued growth.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 28, 2016

Van Rates Decline in 3 Biggest Freight Markets. Reefer load volumes continued to drop seasonally last week, especially in Southern California. Arkansas is always a good bet, but there are a lot more reefer loads available in Texas , California and Illinois. California (3.1). Illinois (1.7). Ohio (1.8). Georgia (2.4).

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Supply Chain Network

OCTOBER 24, 2015

Furthermore, DSV will now be truly global within contract logistics and expand into road freight activities outside Europe. The combined companies will have a more balanced geographical footprint with approximately 61% of revenue in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, 17% in Americas, 16% in Asia (APAC) and 6% in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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