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Prices Set To Ramp Up For Chinese New Year: Freight Rate Update W2

Freightos

Following disruptions caused by bad weather in US and Europe two weeks ago, last week airport operations quickly returned to normal, and cleared any cargo backlogs. There was one significant exception, at Fedex’s Memphis hub, where bad weather affected express parcels due for delivery on 12 January. Ocean Freight Pricing. TRADE LANE.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

With global cargo lanes clogged, businesses are turning to new ways to deliver goods. Mississippi River cargo traffic near Luling, La. The former wartime airbase handled a record 1,655 international cargo arrivals in 2021, a 73% jump from 2019, and overall tonnage rose 18%. We had a good cargo business before the pandemic.

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Van freight gears up for the holidays

DAT Solutions

The load-to-truck ratio is a sensitive, real-time indicator of the balance between demand and capacity. The threatened strike by UPS Freight (LTL) may already be causing shippers to divert their cargo to other channels. Columbus to Memphis rates declined 13¢ to $1.85/mile. loads per truck. Pressure is Building. Hot Markets.

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Freight Market Update and Q2 Trucking Outlook

Zipline Logistics

“The markets with the largest gains this week in OTVI.USA were Laredo, Texas (12.07%) Memphis, Tennessee (5.37%) and Cleveland (5.08%). For now, we anticipate that constrained capacity will remain through Q3 and perhaps the remainder of the fiscal year. Trucking Capacity Could Get Increased Visibility .

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Alliances, Carriers and Logistics!

Supply Chain Game Changer

With container ships jumping from 5,000 TEU Panamax to 23,000 TEU Mega jumbos, carriers need huge amounts of cargo to fill these ships – and that’s only possible with cooperative vessel-sharing agreements. Nothing, actually, but it’s a decidedly different box ship business today than that of 20 years ago.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

It started in 1969 as DHL Air Cargo, and by the late 1970s, the company had expanded its operations and offered services throughout the world. FedEx is the largest cargo airline in the world in terms of scheduled freight tonne kilometers (FTK), a distinction the company has held since 2014, and it’s the fourth largest in terms of fleet size.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 25 – March 1, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Robinson Acquires The Space Cargo Group to Expand Global Presence Transplace Partners with Noodle.ai Drops Threat of 25% Tariffs on Chinese Goods in Sign That Accord Is Near (WSJ – sub. to Increase Efficiency Using Enterprise AI 3Gtms Releases 3G-TM v18.0 pending final city approvals.