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RFID: The Key to Improving Visibility

20Cube Logistics

Technology is fast evolving and so is its adoption by vast industries like supply chain where it is been used more creatively and expansively. Use of RFID is most effective in warehouses and distribution centres (DCs) by improving efficiency and productivity. . RFID for container tracking. What’s RFID? In a warehouse.

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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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Transparency and integrity for your supply chain

Global Trade Management

Which is a minor inconvenience for the private citizen, causes in industry and trade high economic damage. Tracing of freight – reduce search times Logistics manager often complain high search time for lost goods. With the deployment of the right monitoring technology you have your freight better under control.

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How Blockchain Could Create the 'Autonomous Container'

Supply Chain Brain

The technology has proved to be of particular value in in the pharmaceutical industry, where the slightest deviation in temperature can ruin an expensive shipment of drugs. Swiss-based Smart Containers Group , which designs temperature-controlled containers for pharma shippers, among others, collects more than 1.2

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

Turvo

Many industries rely on the transportation of cold and frozen goods. One sector that is experiencing a rapid increase in demand for similar shipping services remains the medical industry. With the final development of several COVID-19 vaccines, specialized shipping must protect the vials as they get distributed.

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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.