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Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions

Freightos

Schedules were quickly disrupted and capacity shifted to China – Europe and North America lanes to accommodate the longer voyages. These changes made ocean capacity (and empty containers) scarce, sending container rates out of India spiking. That reached air cargo quickly.

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How to Procure Full Truckloads in Tight Capacity

GlobalTranz

These rates will have natural implications for smaller shippers seeking to lower overall transportation and freight spend, and paired with a “blurred lines between peak shipping and shopping seasons,” shippers will experience increasing trouble when trying to procure full truckload capacity. Download eBook.

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Where are you on your capacity planning journey?

Kinaxis

by Bill DuBois Balancing capacity can be as challenging as walking a tight rope. Not enough capacity and you lose balance when it comes to delivery and customer satisfaction. Too much capacity and you lose your balance when it comes to costs and margins. Managing capacity, but in a way that makes it tedious and time consuming.

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5 Ways a 3PL Provider Can Transform Your Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

Companies of all sizes engage with 3PLs and 4PLs to ensure access to technology, capacity and strategic insights. During the pandemic, companies found it difficult to access and manage capacity on their own. Learn more about transforming your supply chain by downloading the ebook: The Comprehensive Guide to Supply Chain Resilience.

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Supply Chain Network Design: The Ultimate Use Cases eBook

This eBook shares how supply chain leaders leverage their supply chain design software to tackle a variety of challenges and questions. Dealing with multiple capacity constraints. Explore the most common use cases for network design and optimization software. What's inside? Scenario analysis and optimization defined.

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Doing Our Part To Help Logistics Companies Adapt to COVID-19

Freightos

Meanwhile, massive passenger airline restrictions dramatically reduced air cargo capacity, sending rates through the roof. WebCargo Sky , the world’s largest air cargo platform for live pricing, capacity assessment, and eBooking from global airlines. And, of course, then the potential recession started to tamper demand.

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Steel: The Perfect Material for a Circular Economy, but with a Huge Decarbonization Challenge

DELMIA Quintiq

Green hydrogen-based steel, for instance, creates the need for a significant capacity increase in electricity derived from renewables. To learn more about how to transform your metals organization for sustainability, resilience and operational efficiency, read our latest eBook.