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July Transportation Market Overview 2021

Freight Plus

On the domestic side, both dry vans and reefers continue to run tight in terms of capacity with rates remaining elevated. Uber Freight recognizes the importance of managed transportation. Uber Freight has aquired Transplace. Just incredible. The LTL space remains significantly tight as well-no relief there at all.

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How manufacturers can respond to supply chain disruptions

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

The further disruption caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could cause major disruptions to the global supply chain and impact South Africa. With digital technologies, organisations can use data to maximise visibility into demand, inventory, capacity, supply, and finances. Responding to global disruptions.

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Preparing Your Supply Chain for 2023 – 4 Areas of Focus

Logility

The beginning of the year saw us dealing with supply shortages as product was caught up in containers, as suppliers dealt with capacity challenges. Some 28% of the current installed fleet capacity is on order; just under half of that is expected to be delivered over the course of next year. A surplus of ships is likely 3.

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23 warehouse pros reveal the best ways for warehouses to control & reduce fulfillment costs

6 River Systems

Sophie Miles is the VP of Marketing & Co-Founder of CalculatorBuddy.com , a tech company in expansion to USA, Canada, and South Africa. It also maintains a company’s visibility of their manufacturing, supplier, and transportation capacity while promising orders to optimize their inventory management. Sophie Miles.

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Top 20 Verified Supply Chain Experts You Can Hire

SCMDOJO

Expertise: Sourcing, Supply Chain Analysis, Logistics & Transportation, Logistics Management Consulting, Freight (Maritime, Land, or Air), Logistics Technology Solutions. Paul Stephen Location: South Africa/ Remote Rating: 0/5.0 Matías Guarello Wilhelmy Location: Chile / Remote Rating: 5/5.0 Contact him now!

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

Chokepoints (or bottlenecks) are a term used to describe the most crucial strategic marine routes because they: Capacity limitations. Chokepoints commonly have shallow, constricting depths, which hinder navigation and place restrictions on ship capacity. However, the canal can accommodate 50 ships per day at its maximum capacity.

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

6 River Systems

A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. FedEx Corporation FedEx , previously known as Federal Express, is an American multinational freight company founded in 1971 as a system for urgent deliveries. Kuehne + Nagel Inc. Jacobs in 2011.