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Ocean Container Tracking & Port Terminal Operations: Maritime Supply Chains and the “Visibility Paradox”

3rdwave

Dating back to EDI and XML, and now through solutions that employ the Internet of Things, GPS, API’s and Artificial Intelligence, there’s no limit to what people can build in their quest to facilitate global trade. With the above said, I’ve observed a “Visibility Paradox” regarding ocean container tracking that I believe requires a call-out.

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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

Logistics Viewpoints

The world’s fleet consists of approximately 6,000 ships. These ships carried nearly 150 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers last year. Last October, over 100 ships, including 70 container ships, were waiting at anchor or in drift zones to unload at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Covid-19 pandemic tested the global supply chain. More and more cargo shifted to ocean transport until the container imbalances resulted in issues with “rolling the freight” from ship to ship despite confirmed bookings. Check out some of the work that Blume Global is doing in this area.).

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RFID: The Key to Improving Visibility

20Cube Logistics

To understand it, we can take the example of a bar code or magnetic strip of a bank’s ATM card where data is captured by the device and stored in the database. Outbound activities : Before shipping a consignment, it becomes easy to identify errors at the carton level before moving it to pallets. . RFID for container tracking.

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How Blockchain Could Create the 'Autonomous Container'

Supply Chain Brain

There’s nothing new, for example, about a carrier’s ability to monitor the interior temperature and humidity of a shipping container while in transit. Swiss-based Smart Containers Group , which designs temperature-controlled containers for pharma shippers, among others, collects more than 1.2

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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.