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Peak Shipping Season Update: What’s Driving Change in the Industry?

GlobalTranz

Higher freight volumes. Stronger freight volumes are expected as pent-up demand from consumers, retailers, and manufacturers reaches an apex. Shrinking capacity from higher freight volumes results in higher rates throughout peak season and beyond. This is not the usual peak season, and it started much earlier than in 2020.

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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

As I mentioned in an earlier post on the growth drivers for the Transportation Management Systems market , transportation visibility tools are one of a number of technologies that are improving performance and helping to reduce freight spend. Air cargo visibility is also becoming a more important aspect of overall transportation visibility.

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Logistics Report: Forecasting More Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Shifting Compet ition

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Forecasting Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Challenge. Freight heavyweight J.B. Hunt’s third-quarter earnings signal a strong market for freight operators, but increasingly restrained economic forecasts suggest clouds on the horizon. Cargo Facts). DC Velocity). By Paul Page. Advertisement.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

There was no air freight possible then into Europe,” added Gerald van den Eijnden. You would call up the freight forwarders, and they would send an Excel spreadsheet” that contained all the shipments for Molex in the coming days or weeks. The planners could choose to switch cargo from a slow-moving ship to air, for example.

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Is Inventory Optimization a Key to Omnichannel Survival?

ToolsGroup

That’s never going to compete with Amazon—not only its existing footprint, but in light of its new investments in logistics that include localized fulfillment sites, global trade services, and even sea and air cargo transport—like its May 5 announcement of plans to double its fleet of leased Boeing 767 freight jets for package deliveries.

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Logistics Websites 2013

The Logistics of Logistics

Air Cargo World - aircargoworld.com. Air Cargo – How it Works - air-cargo-how-it-works.blogspot.com/. DC Velocity – dcvelocity.com. Freight Saving Tips – freightsavingstips.com. Freight Dawg – freightdawg.com. There is also a list of great logistics blogs and supply chain websites.

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The Great Store Redo

Cathy Roberson

However, in a multichannel strategy, it may also mean even more frequent inventory replenishment to stores from warehouses or perhaps utilizing a DC-bypass strategy that retailer Big Lots, for example, is doing the last half of this year to expedite shipments to its stores. The key here is fast.