Enterra Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

Just 14 years later, the first air cargo flight took place in 1910. By 1956, the first container ship sailed from the port of New Jersey to Texas. That includes packaging, warehousing, shipping, and more. In 1896, the invention of the ‘horseless carriage’ semi-truck improved how goods moved across our country.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2021

It was a tale of two freight markets during the past year due to the global pandemic that reshuffled consumption and commerce. We saw historic freight lows in the winter and early spring, followed by landmark highs in the summer and the remainder of the year. Buying Trends Could Shape 2021 Freight Outlook. Housing Market Boom .

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 26, 2019

And bringing air freight services into the spotlight. . Because consumers use technology to do on-the-spot price comparisons, they can order from any company in the world that has their desired product. That’s where air freight and third party logistics providers (3PLs)—like C.H. The state of today’s air freight market.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

Not even B2B is spared from these changing expectations (which is why we at Freightos launched an online freight marketplace ). While freight industry executives likely sighed with relief when an update of Amazon’s logistics.amazon.com page on June 28th turned out to be nothing more than a franchise model for courier delivery services.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 26, 2019

And bringing air freight services into the spotlight. . Because consumers use technology to do on-the-spot price comparisons, they can order from any company in the world that has their desired product. That’s where air freight and third party logistics providers (3PLs)—like C.H. The state of today’s air freight market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The number of package flights operated by FedEx Express and UPS significantly declined month over month in July, underscoring how far the overall air cargo market has sunk since the spring of 2022 and the effect of efficiency initiatives the companies have undertaken in response to lower express volumes.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 2, 2021

Year-over-year comparisons are extraordinary due to the temporary suspension of operations at several of its customers’ sites as a result of COVID-19. According to Haverty’s CEO, Clarence Smith, shipping challenges will be a problem until the spring of 2022. increase from the same period in 2020.

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Turvo

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Reason for the drastic increase in freight prices . Probable events that will lead to a downfall in freight prices. In recent months, businesses and shippers have been plagued with abnormally high freight rates. For comparison, the prices stood at just under $11,000 for a similar container in the last week of July 2021.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Among the over 10,000 small businesses on Freightos.com , the world’s largest digital freight marketplace, many are small eCommerce businesses who use Freightos.com to ship directly to Amazon FBA warehouses and other fulfillment solutions. Adaptability of SMBs. But importing is still an uphill battle. How does this help importers?

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Talking Logistics

JULY 29, 2016

Freightos Launches First International Freight Marketplace to Power $2 Trillion Worth of U.S. In other technology news, Freightos announced “the launch of the world’s first online marketplace for international freight, providing instant comparison, booking, and management of freight services from multiple logistics providers.”

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Third party logistics (3PL) is the function by where the owner of goods outsources numerous components of the supply chain to a 3PL company that can perform the management function of the clients’ customs, inbound freight, distribution, warehousing, order fulfilment and outbound freight to the client’s customers. Order Fulfilment.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 1, 2020

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.

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20Cube Logistics

JULY 24, 2019

We have heard of pilotless planes, driverless cars and unmanned trains, but have you ever heard of autonomous ships? Well, the shipping industry is evolving with new technologies and innovations and the most exciting discovery has been the use of autonomous navigation systems. Is an automated navigation system here to stay? Challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year. West Coast port congestion leads to new ideas in cross-country rail shipping. The national stockpile had been shipping to only about 5 locations per state and other jurisdictions. The cost to ship a 40-foot container from China to the U.S. As of Sept.

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Elementum

APRIL 22, 2015

Furthermore, the permissions the FAA grants with its Section 333 exemptions are very limited by comparison. Last year Rolls-Royce unveiled a virtual prototype for unmanned freight cargo ships, showing that the future of drones isn't exclusively airborne.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 19, 2022

Many expenses arise from these disruptions that impact the bottom line profits for shippers today; one of the most volatile and impactful is freight bill financing. Managing freight costs and freight payments , whether per mile, per load, or truckload is vital to overcoming the obstacles and disruptions currently plaguing the industry.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 3, 2022

In comparison, transportation and warehousing PPI increased 17.844 points for the same period, index based on 2006=100 and not seasonally adjusted. This combination resulted in higher shipping costs for retailers. Note in the first chart, Standard Courier Services PPI Index, the sharp jump from December 2020, 373, to January 2021, 394.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2022

Shipping companies added capacity, but now containers are stuck in port. Cargo losses escalate as thieves target cars, electronics. The Port of Oakland reported cargo in April dropped 7 percent compared to the same period a year ago due to factory and port shutdowns in China. And now on this week’s logistics news.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 17, 2021

International shipping industry article and permission to publish here provided by Daniel Choi. Even during the epidemic, the shipping industry’s significance in the value chain and the transportation of resources and goods worldwide was emphasized, probably most prominently. The Shipping Industry During Pandemic.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The state of ocean freight continues to evolve in the wake of peak season, approaching holiday shipping deadlines , and ongoing disruptions. But imagine this reality: With ocean freight costs setting records, those same errors are now setting records. Why Invoicing Errors Are More Likely in Ocean Shipping.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

To fill the rising gaps in shopping malls, many mall owners are converting the empty spaces into fulfillment centers for shipping out orders. But the express carriers are still flying less than they were a year ago because of weak shipping demand. said Wednesday it has begun offering a service to handle returns.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Shipping air inside expensive freight containers has never been a cost-effective approach to transportation. Today though, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s even more critical to try and improve capacity utilisation , given the skyrocketing costs of container freight shipping.

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Freightera

JULY 14, 2017

If you are in the business of shipping goods across the USA or Canada using land transport, you are concerned about cost-effectiveness, timely delivery and the safety of your shipment. As there are multiple modes of moving your cargo, it’s important to know which mode to choose. Shipments could cost considerably more than LTL freight.

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20Cube Logistics

MARCH 23, 2021

In simple words, it can be said that it is a way of shipping wherein your cargo is shipped with several other cargos to fill-up a container. What is LCL shipping? LCL shipping is also called groupage, because the cargo of yours is grouped with other cargos in a single container moving to the same destination. .

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2016

This tremendous growth was driven by freight shipping, which scaled in size but didn’t significantly improve underlying technology, getting bigger, not getting smarter. For example, 26% of the 730 million TEUs shipped annually and approximately 30% of trucks on the road are empty. By 2014, it reached $77 trillion dollars.

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Intelligent Audit

APRIL 15, 2021

Having intimate knowledge of available supply chain capacity in every shipping mode continues to be paramount for companies to meet consumer demand as economies recover after recessions felt during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Increased surcharges will increase overall shipping costs. Increased Surcharges Will Impact Overall Costs.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 6, 2022

“We work with TMS providers as well as with shippers by providing such solutions as parcel rate comparison to optimize the last mile” Catania said in a recent interview. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, as well as a monthly podcast on Air Cargo World.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 18, 2021

There are many terms in logistics to consider, such as last mile logistics and last mile delivery , but they end up sounding confusing because all freight has a last mile portion. Describes the nature of the cargo, amount of cargo by weight, size and/or number of pieces, and the origin and destination of the cargo.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

“This would increase the complexity of route planning and make more difficult the quest to eliminate empty back hauls as the number of shipping points increases and the number of shipments out of more rural locations increases,” explains Skip Berry in an article published by Clarkston Consulting. Rationalize the number.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 9, 2016

Recently, I had the chance to spend a few days with a bunch of talented operations professionals working in shipping terminals. This will allow them to efficiently unload and load thousands of containers, palletized freight, cars, liquid tanks, and more. In the shipping terminal, we have our own 3-letter acronym: TOS.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 15, 2021

After 96 years of serving the industry, Central Freight Lines has filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy less than two weeks before Christmas, reports Clarissa Hawes of FreightWaves. The sad reality is Central Freight Lines succumbed to excessive debt and an inability to maintain profitability through the pandemic.

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Cathy Roberson

JULY 19, 2021

In comparison, there are 20,139 large businesses. As cross-border e-commerce grows, expect more customized solutions from other logistics and freight forwarding companies including perhaps acquisitions of stand-alone customs brokerage firms. The latest data from the US Small Business Administration (SBA) finds that there are 31.7

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QAD

MARCH 21, 2019

For comparison, this makes the country about half the size of Russia or South America, and more than twice the size of the European Union. has 5,054 airports, most of which have paved runways long enough to handle large jets and cargo planes. Annual freight traffic equaled about 37.22 Cargo transportation in the U.S.

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 23, 2020

However, the freight market, and the domestic economy, rebounded from April lows much quicker than anticipated over the last month. During the last few weeks, outbound tender volumes, a useful measurement of freight in the market, have soared. But there are a few trends that are currently affecting the freight.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2017

In the meantime, here’s Trump, Amazon, and the rest of this week’s supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention: Amazon Expands Into Ocean Freight (WSJ – sub. Freight on digital fast track: DHL launches CILLOX. Brings Advanced Freight Collaboration Solutions to the Transportation Industry. in December.

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