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Freight Innovation and the Lesson from a Dead Remote Control Tech Play

Freightos

In this article, we review how carrier and forwarder fragmentation remains one of the most significant hurdles for modern freight, how freight standardization and platformification are posed to change that, and why innovation we can’t even imagine might be around the corner. But as a freight technology junkie, it made sense.

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RFID: The Key to Improving Visibility

20Cube Logistics

Use of RFID is most effective in warehouses and distribution centres (DCs) by improving efficiency and productivity. . RFID for container tracking. RFID is the best way to manage consignment without incurring the cost, effort and stress associated with tracking lost shipments. How it’s useful in the supply chain?

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Here’s Why Vaccine Cold-Chain Transportation Network Issues Highlight Sound Logistics Capabilities

Turvo

With the final development of several COVID-19 vaccines, specialized shipping must protect the vials as they get distributed. The biggest obstacle to current transport methods comes down to the amount of dry ice needed and the issues surrounding the containers’ proper maintenance.

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How Strong tradelane focused freight forwarders can benefit you

20Cube Logistics

Why Trade Lanes Affect Freight Forwarding Prices. In the freight forwarding industry, this classification explains how a shipment will travel from its source to the destination. If one means of transportation is popular, and many freight forwarding companies are using it, the prices are lower.

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Transparency and integrity for your supply chain

Global Trade Management

To collect the plurality of information different technologies are used that give whole containers its own intelligence to provide additional information, their condition and environment records which can be stored and even communicate in real time. Depending on the use case an exact position of the searched objects is required.

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How Blockchain Could Create the 'Autonomous Container'

Supply Chain Brain

Swiss-based Smart Containers Group , which designs temperature-controlled containers for pharma shippers, among others, collects more than 1.2 The technology features chips that monitor temperature and humidity within a 500-meter range of an air-freight container. Still, there are problems to be overcome.