Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 8, 2022

Delivery drivers will ride e-cargo bikes and walk to customers’ homes and offices in central London, replacing thousands of traditional van journeys in the city’s congested roads. ” This week, Walmart announced that it would charge some of its suppliers a new fee to transport goods to its warehouses and stores.

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3PL Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Global Shipping Effects of the Hanjin Bankruptcy. Hanjin Shipping, a South Korean company and the seventh largest container shipper in the world, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, August 31, 2016, which has prompted significant questions and confusion around the world as to how this will affect global shipping.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 25, 2021

An ‘aggressive’ fight over containers is causing shipping costs to rocket by 300%. Shipping costs have skyrocketed as desperate companies wait weeks for containers and pay premium rates to get them, according to industry watchers. The container crisis affects all companies that need to ship goods. KEY POINTS.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Airline group says global cargo volume grew 6.9 UPS posted record quarterly earnings on Tuesday and forecast 2022 revenue above expectations, driven by higher shipping rates and e-commerce demand, sending shares of the logistics giant up 7 percent before the bell. Record robot orders in 2021. percent in 2021. days last January.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

The collapse of a section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will cause “major disruption” in the region just as the summer travel season begins, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. Congratulations to the Las Vegas Golden Knights and Denver Nuggets. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2022

Earlier this week, Waymo , announced that it will deliver home goods for Wayfair using its fleet of autonomous semi-trailer trucks. The deliveries will take place as part of a pilot that’s being conducted by Waymo and JB Hunt Transport Services to test out self-driving trucks along certain shipping routes in Texas.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2023

The speed of the box’s throughput enables orders to be packaged, labeled and ready to ship in 30 minutes. pounds of cargo in a hold with about 1,800 cubic inches of space. Each Manna Aero drone does 7 to 8 deliveries an hour at 50 miles per hour at a cost of roughly one-tenth a human driver in a car. kg CO2e.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 12, 2023

customers $10 to pick up a purchase rather than have it shipped to a home address, as the e-commerce giant joins other retailers in racing to slash costs for home delivery and returns amid slack consumer demand. The company is offering U.S.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Intelligent Audit CEO Hannah Testani, in a LinkedIn post congratulating her company on its performance, wrote “ I’ve never been more excited about the potential in our industry to truly empower shippers to ship smarter by leveraging clean, normalized, transformative actionable intelligence. ”. Cost of Flour, Consumer Goods, Remains High.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2022

It includes free shipping of online purchases, free grocery deliveries to the home for orders of at least $35, prescription discounts and other benefits. XPO Logistics launched a Ship Net-Zero program, giving shippers the option to purchase carbon credits to offset emissions from shipments. Walmart+ costs $98 per year, or $12.95

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 3, 2023

China is the world’s largest producer and exporter of consumer goods. Disruptions across the Chinese manufacturing sector are likely to impact the global supply chain of goods and the world’s economy. . Ocean shipping rates have cooled from record highs hit during the pandemic. Russian-Ukraine War . Learn more. .

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It can be a confusing time for the international shipping community due to the U.S. government’s implementation of new tariffs on Chinese goods entering America. These impacted goods are subject to a 25% increase upon arrival into the U.S. Affected goods include: Plastics/plastic products. Cargo containers.

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QAD

MARCH 21, 2019

Products include petroleum, steel, high-tech, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications equipment, electronics, chemicals, consumer goods, food, lumber and mining products. has 5,054 airports, most of which have paved runways long enough to handle large jets and cargo planes. Cargo transportation in the U.S.

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QAD

AUGUST 11, 2020

It is also a modern industrial country at the forefront of fashion, consumer goods and construction. Much of Italy’s industry focuses on high-quality consumer goods and luxury brands, many produced by small, family-owned and mid-sized companies. . Transportation options are abundant and of good quality in Italy.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 22, 2022

The shipping industry contributes to 25% of America’s total GDP with the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach being the busiest, handling more than 40% of all inbound cargo shipped to the U.S. A port congestion occurs when ships arrive at a port but are unable to load or unload due to an existing full port capacity.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

What do you get when you combine an electric van with a fully automated cargo space, drones, joystick control, and cloud-based algorithms to control order picking, the loading of packages, the automated cargo space, and route planning for the vehicle and delivery drones? DOT pushing slower truck speed limits (The Hill).

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crisp

JULY 12, 2023

Crisp’s resident supply chain expert Barry Bradley shares an update on the state of the consumer goods supply chain, offering insight on how companies can stay ahead of the trends and gain a competitive advantage. As more goods are manufactured domestically, there is a greater demand for domestic transportation services.

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In today’s blog we’re taking a look at what this means for shipping costs, and how retailers can fortify their operations against price hikes. Why are shipping costs growing? Response of shipping companies. Shipping costs hit an all-time high earlier this year. Fuel accounts for about 21 percent of carrier expenses.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2021

Q1 is historically a slow trucking period, but that may not be the case this year as online ordering, and the shift into consumer goods has buoyed freight volume. Consumers, primarily forced to forgo service and experience spending due to the pandemic, reallocated their dollars elsewhere. Industrial Economy Rebound .

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2019

Rudin explains, “The ubiquity and embeddedness of information technology, the distributed manufacturing of consumer goods and industrial products, and global data storage centers defy our ability to know a company’s country of origin, or to figure out where, exactly, it operates.” 3] Those risks are: 1. ” 10.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 15, 2019

In this way, the delivery of raw materials, consumer goods and other components are delayed, sometimes substantially, which can seriously harm the bottom line of businesses. You could ask yourself whether you have an order on any ships in those lanes, the priority of that cargo and how you should adjust the shipping route.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

However, the longer the conflict continues, the greater the likelihood of severe impacts for a broader range of manufacturing industries, potentially including automotive, consumer goods, healthcare , and other sectors. However, emptying the contents of silos into the holds of ships is only one small part of the problem.

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Zipline Logistics

MARCH 24, 2020

Persons designated by Federal, State or local authorities for transport for medical, isolation or quarantine purposes. . published in Freight Waves , “Fewer ship calls in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic as well as lingering effects from the United States’ trade war with China resulted in a 17.9% According to an article?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

But there’s no decline in the time, knowledge, and effort that shippers and transportation professionals put into the preparation and execution it takes to get products to market in time for consumers to do their holiday shopping—whenever, and however, they inevitably decide to do it. Post 2: Are You an Easy Target for Cargo Theft?

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 18, 2022

December 2021 - Transportation Market Report. No end in sight as 101 Ships spread across 1,000 miles wait for berth at LA and Long Beach. With sustained US consumer goods demand in 2022, and no significant vessel capacity scheduled to enter Transpacific, supply/demand dynamics of 2021 are projected to continue well into the new year.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 24, 2015

9: 3M’s Transportation Load Control Center: In 1982, 3M, like every other company, had to leave transportation decisions to each plant and distribution center. Roy Mayeske, at that time the Executive Director of 3M Transportation, had the idea to centralize transportation planning to look for network synergies.

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 25, 2017

Harvey Will Affect Fuel Prices and Freight Transportation. Meanwhile, oil refineries and drilling platforms are also located in the hurricane's path, as are several seaports and the Houston Ship Channel, so analysts expect an impact on fuel prices and cargo transportation, respectively, according to Bloomberg.

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Freight Plus

OCTOBER 31, 2017

While President Trump issued a 10-day waiver of exemption on the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, debate about the century old protectionist shipping act raged on. Mainly that it should repealed for good as it inhibits aid in the worst of times and increases the cost of consumer goods to some U.S. Ports be carried on U.S.

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Freightera

JULY 7, 2022

Another example of switching focus is listing what is not included or listing one healthy or “good” ingredient that is included in consumer goods. For example, trains are a much smaller pollutant than trucks , they can haul large amounts of cargo in one trip and they are usually the cheapest option. .

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 23, 2016

A Diverse Mix of Goods is Driving U.S. export commodity base is a diverse mix of goods and is well balanced across many commodity segments and cargo values. exports are diversified over the material goods segment. Consider this: The U.S. Aside from scrap and recycled products, the remaining two thirds of U.S.

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