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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

Steve Jobs famously purchased the entire available air freight capacity along key Asia-US routes to ship the first iMac prior to holiday season. DHL Global Forwarding actually got started by taking ocean freight documents by air to expedite release along a new West Coast-Hawaii ocean line. Security surcharges.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

I read earlier this week that Hershey said it would fall short of meeting demand for the Halloween and Christmas holiday seasons this year, blaming a scarcity of raw ingredients and difficulties in securing suppliers. The goal of the tariff is to reduce an excess of empty containers dwelling at the port and free up space for container pickup.

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Why Warehouse Automation Matters: 7 Hidden Cost Leaks of Outdated Manual Processes

RFgen

One study by the University of Hawaii found that 88% of non-trivial spreadsheets contain at least one error. Besides the direct costs on your employees and the increased security risk, manual supply chain processes have an additional cost: the inability to adapt. Inability to Adapt.

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Why Warehouse Automation Matters: 7 Hidden Cost Leaks of Outdated Manual Processes

RFgen

One study by the University of Hawaii found that 88% of non-trivial spreadsheets contain at least one error. Besides the direct costs on your employees and the increased security risk, manual supply chain processes have an additional cost: the inability to adapt. Inability to Adapt.

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How did that Christmas tree get here?

DAT Solutions

Then trees for Hawaii are loaded into containers in the first week of November, followed by trees for the Midwest and the East Coast. We build relationships year round, and gather carrier information regarding types of equipment, capacity, and preferred lanes. We start contacting carriers and securing equipment in August and September.

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