The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This year the annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26) was held at the SEC Centre in Glasgow, United Kingdom, from 31 October to 13 November 2021. came from trucks carrying cargo. “Even with all new Glasgow pledges for 2030, we will emit roughly twice as much in 2030 as required for 1.5 Most of this, 45.1

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. is one of the industry’s most respected logistics sources. Air Cargo World. This American based niche news site specialises in air cargo.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 15, 2025

This start-ups technology is based on the open-source database PostgreSQL. including its global supply chain sustainability software offering for beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) , enterprise supply chain leaders and logistics service providers (LSPs). The announcement was made in conjunction with Coupas Inspire customer conference.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 30, 2025

Sourcing raw materials from Asia, coordinating freight with European logistics providers, or navigating distribution networks in the Americas cross-border operations rely on effective communication to make them happen. Procurement staff must send alternate sourcing orders. Logistics coordinators will need to reroute deliveries.

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Global Trade Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. Importers are using multiple sourcing vendors to improve their ability to respond to market demand and opportunities.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 4, 2015

COP21, the Paris Climate change conference taking place this week got us thinking what the carbon cost was for shipping the TV. Click the button on the right to see our sources. SEE CALCULATION × Sources for Freight Emissions The following facts are from disparate sources, but tell a consistent story.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2015

Enough to go through every single article published in the top tech blogs – Techcrunch, Verge, Mashable and Recode – since 2007 to count how often articles about logistics startups, freight or cargo were published. Improved cargo capacity by innovative 40 foot container design (fold). Really hot. The email subject? “Is

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Global Trade Management

APRIL 3, 2008

Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. bound maritime cargo containers be limited to high-risk trade lanes. arviem real-time cargo monitoring.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Expanding and shifting sourcing Earlier this year, a number of retailers told analysts that they had expanded their sourcing partners to diversify inventories and mitigate risks. Floor & Decor is one of the latest retailers to diversify its countries of origin by moving a large portion of sourcing out of China.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 1, 2015

Ports See Costly Delays as Cargo Ships, Volumes Grow (WSJ – sub. Last June at the TMSA conference, I asked the 130+ transportation and logistics professionals in attendance, “Do you view Uber as a competitor?” Earlier this week, I attended the JDA FOCUS 2015 conference, where I moderated a panel discussion with 3PL executives.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The CNBC report makes mention of Beth Rooney, port director for the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey indicating at a press conference that at present, this port has no automation. Daggett statement that semi-automation is a “ back-avenue to automation ” is an example of such a stance.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

Cargo Owners Complain of ‘Total Mess’ Shipping Goods to Asia (WSJ – sub. In other transportation management news, MercuryGate announced the launch of MercuryMart, “a dynamic information exchange providing TMS users with access to a broad range of sources of available capacity.”

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SCMDOJO

JULY 18, 2024

Biofuels, derived from renewable sources like plant materials, boast a lower carbon footprint while still being compatible with existing diesel engines (often in blends) (Khare & Sharma, 2003). This can potentially improve fuel efficiency per unit of cargo hauled, as fewer trips are required to move the same amount of goods (DfT, 2005e).

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

That said many countries are struggling to accommodate the new sources of power into grids designed for fossil fuel power generation. At the LogiSYM conference earlier this year in Singapore, I talked to a representative of a packaging solutions firm. Green Power Moving away from a power grid fueled by fossil fuel is happening.

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EcoVadis

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Ethical Sourcing Forum (New York, NY). The big news during this conference was the announcement that Ford would be joining the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC). The AIAG Corporate Responsibility Summit focused on sustainable procurement challenges and best practices in the automotive sector.

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Supply Chain Network

JANUARY 26, 2012

This was well described by Lora Cecere of Altimeter Group (Supply Chain Shaman blog) who stated that “the concept of the big data supply chain is the evolution of technologies to harness the explosion of data and new data sources to drive a near real-time response”. Supply Chain “clock speed”. Supply chains in the cloud.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 11, 2018

Source: [link]. Full block train, single or multiple containers, LCL shipments and oversized cargo are available options. We celebrate moms for many reasons: for giving us life and nurturing us; for inspiring and comforting us; for their unconditional love. Happy Mother’s Day to all moms, for everything you do.

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Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

They’re a dual sourcer, and they have diverted some volume, and I suspect they’ll stay dual sourcing.” Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets on Air Cargo Next. So, if I look at the remaining decliners, it’s interesting to see what’s happening.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 9, 2023

As such, the Reverse Logistics Association (RLA) will shine the light on six of these firms in RLA’s annual conference in Las Vegas, Feb 7-9 , in its inaugural Reverse Logistics Startup Pitch Contest. Join us in Vegas There’s still time to join us in Las Vegas for RLA’s annual conference.

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Cathy Roberson

DECEMBER 17, 2022

(Source: Reddit ) There’s been a lot of supply chain pains over the years, many of which are well documented – port congestion, capacity issues, rising spot rates, plunging spot rates, hidden fees, maxed out warehouses – just to name a few but one that I’m still trying to wrap my head around is access to bathrooms.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2024

The order calls for the Canada Industrial Relations Board , a termed independent body, to impose binding arbitration on both Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference. Both railways were ordered to resume operations while the arbitration process initiates.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 11, 2020

Cargo volumes have dropped by between 5 and 25 percent in the same period at ports in Europe and the United States. The US and many Western producers source most of their APIs from China. With China buying less iron ore, oil and coal, charter rates for bulk freighters and tankers have dipped by more than 70 percent since early January.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 6, 2022

UPS acquires Delivery Solutions UPS entered the same-day delivery space last year by acquiring a same-day delivery crowd-sourced platform, Roadie and on May 31 of this year, UPS acquired Delivery Solutions, a SaaS technology provider. In June, I’ll be heading to a couple of conferences. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 31, 2022

Collaborating with its crowd-sourced last-mile delivery subsidiary, Shipt, orders are sorted "hyper-locally down to the neighborhood level, providing a fast, efficient, reliable and low-cost delivery option," Mulligan said. In June, I’ll be heading to a couple of conferences. In total, the six sortation centers handled 4.5

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 22, 2024

Early this morning, more than 9,000 unionized workers were locked out by carriers Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) resulting in a halt to freight and bulk cargo transport operations.

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Locus

JULY 12, 2022

The workers who make deliveries in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, said in a press conference in Tokyo that they had been overworked to the point of exhaustion. This means that one-third of cargo in Japan would go undelivered. The recent news of Japanese delivery drivers forming a union , claiming overwork, is not surprising then.

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3rdwave

MARCH 28, 2019

Sitting at the airport awaiting my flight back home provides an opportunity to reflect back on my experience at the TPM 2019 conference in Long Beach, California. For those that are not familiar with the TPM conference, or Trans-Pacific Maritime, it is the premier conference for the container shipping industry.

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3rdwave

MARCH 28, 2019

Sitting at the airport awaiting my flight back home provides an opportunity to reflect back on my experience at the TPM 2019 conference in Long Beach, California. For those that are not familiar with the TPM conference, or Trans-Pacific Maritime, it is the premier conference for the container shipping industry.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

Semiconductor companies are using generative AI-driven tariff modelers to simulate trade scenarios, optimize sourcing and respond to shifting policies. In the automotive sector, manufacturers are deploying AI to track the origin of thousands of components, model tariff impacts and drive faster sourcing decisions.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Roadie is a crowd-sourced, same-day delivery service that UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund invested in five years ago. It could partner with Roadie, an Atlanta-based crowd-sourced solution that UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund invested in five years ago. Good for them. ” That’s the important part of this same-day delivery puzzle.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 21, 2021

UPS’s investor and analyst virtual conference a couple of weeks highlighted these two ingredients. During the Q&A session, towards the end of UPS’s investor and analyst virtual conference, a question on same-day deliveries popped up. But will it be enough?

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Techgistics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Fred Smith, CEO FedEx from the report: Concerns about industry disruption continue to be fueled by fantastical -- and I chose this word carefully -- articles and reports,” Smith said on a conference call with analysts and investors. “In Source: Statista. Postal Service and FedEx. In 2015, Amazon accounted for 60% of all U.S.

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GTG Technology Group

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The standard container cargo measure is in 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs). This year’s conference leaders are optimistic after new alliances have created signs of industry revival. Sources: [link]. Global economic growth slowdown has created overcapacity across the globe. Industries are expected to grow only 2.2 percent growth.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Asked at a European Policy Centre conference in Brussels if she “feared a wipeout,” Henne, who is chief executive of ThyssenKrupp Materials Services, replied: “Of course.” RELATED CONTENT RELATED VIDEOS Global Trade & Economics Regulation & Compliance Sourcing/Procurement/SRM Industrial Manufacturing Related Articles U.K.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2018

This is self-contradictory,” said Jansen at the [Global Liner Shipping Conference]. I’m curious how the 40 percent reduction in transit time was actually achieved since blockchain doesn’t make cargo ships move through water any faster. This data is growing at a rate of close to one million events per day.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 15, 2016

May their memory continue to be a source of strength and comfort to their families and friends and us all. Accenture Releases Enhanced Ocean Cargo Pricing Software to Provide Greater Pricing Visibility for Carriers. And to the many who were injured that day, you continue to inspire us with your courage and perseverance.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 25, 2022

Eric is the Air Cargo Editor at FreightWaves, the leading FreightIntel provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. Eric Kulisch is the Supply Chain and Air Cargo Editor at FreightWaves. Russia sanctions cut both ways for air cargo. About Eric Kulisch.

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