article thumbnail

Taming the Supply Chain Beast: Tech Solutions for Smoother Operations with Kendra Phillips

The Logistics of Logistics

Kendra is the VP of Global Transportation Management leading the managed transportation and brokerage divisions of Ryder System, Inc , a Fortune 500 Transportation and Logistics company. Ryder provides services throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

article thumbnail

Freightera Launches The Nearshoring Canada Directory, in Partnership With Supply Chain Canada – the first of its kind in Canada Freightera and Supply Chain Canada

Freightera

Freightera and Supply Chain Canada launch The Nearshoring Directory, a potential sourcing solution that could revolutionize the way supply chain works. See below the official press release from Supply Chain Canada. And now, particularly in Western Canada, natural disasters have increased the chaos. HOW IT WORKS.

Canada 42
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Worker Shortages and More Pose a Challenge to Freight Companies

Elementum

But issues surrounding labor and rising fuel prices pose real threats to the freight industry. Answers to some of the transportation industry’s biggest concerns could also lie in improved technology. trucks transport 63 percent of ALL the goods that go to Canada and Mexico. Current Challenges in the Trucking Industry.

Freight 68
article thumbnail

Worker Shortages and More Pose a Challenge to Freight Companies

Elementum

But issues surrounding labor and rising fuel prices pose real threats to the freight industry. Answers to some of the transportation industry’s biggest concerns could also lie in improved technology. trucks transport 63 percent of ALL the goods that go to Canada and Mexico. Current Challenges in the Trucking Industry.

Freight 60
article thumbnail

Logistics, Perpetually in Motion (Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2016)

Talking Logistics

Enhanced transportation management for more complex planning and tendering requirements. Addressed customs initiatives in the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Cuba and Paraguay. Created landed cost calculation service for global trade automation. New telematics software and hardware platforms.

article thumbnail

Air Travel Demand and the Cargo Impact

CH Robinson Transportfolio

This is a pretty good comparison for how it feels to give air freight market updates lately. With that in mind, let us examine some of the mid to long-term impacts of COVID-19 on the air freight market. Each lane is different, but passenger flights make up a large portion of air freight capacity globally.

Cargo 44
article thumbnail

Transpacific Air and Ocean Shipping Space Is Already Tight

CH Robinson Transportfolio

If you’ve heard the term “perfect storm” applied more to transportation lately than you have since the book by Sebastian Junger came out in 1997, you’re not alone. Unfortunately, it’s the best way to describe what is happening right now in the air and ocean freight markets. Ocean freight. The perfect storm is upon us.