Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Cargo thieves love the holidays. Warehouses and distribution centers are top targets. That time of year when the industry ships a higher volume of desirable, in-demand goods. Appliances and furniture, food and beverages, and electronics are hot commodities.

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JUNE 8, 2025

Among the various parties involved, a cargo loader holds a significant role. According to a study conducted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), cargo-related factors contribute to a significant number of truck accidents each year. In that case, they may be held liable for damages resulting from the accident.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

SEFE will manage global ammonia sourcing and distribution through Germanys hydrogen core grid, while Hegh Evi will provide midstream infrastructure, including shipping and floating ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion. This approach helps companies meet regulatory requirements and address consumer demands for transparency.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

In April 2024, we asked members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies — if they had experienced cargo theft or other types of freight fraud in the past year. Read more

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Singapore 12th August 2021: Recognising the heightened focus on overall supply chain performance due to increased disruption and challenges, shippers, manufacturers and beneficial cargo owners (BCO’s), are increasingly faced with soaring freights rates and what they, correctly or otherwise, perceive to be sub-standard or inferior service.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

SEFE will manage global ammonia sourcing and distribution through Germanys hydrogen core grid, while Hegh Evi will provide midstream infrastructure, including shipping and floating ammonia-to-hydrogen conversion. This approach helps companies meet regulatory requirements and address consumer demands for transparency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2025

Cybersecurity in a Distributed Digital Environment Cybersecurity risk in logistics has shifted from a hypothetical concern to an operational constraint. In 2017, Maersk’s encounter with NotPetya malware required a full infrastructure rebuild and delayed cargo worldwide.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 18, 2025

This major gaming hardware heist highlights the vulnerability of high-value cargo. Rising Cargo Theft Cargo theft surged 27% in 2024, with 3,625 incidents averaging $202,364, per Verisk CargoNet. Cargo and Value The stolen cargo comprised 2,810 Nintendo Switch 2 consoles, each worth $499, totaling $1.4

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

ERP & SCM Systems (2000s2015): Centralized ERP suites (e.g.,

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

million+ transactions annually This network effect means better visibility, more competitive rates, and unparalleled connectivity across the global logistics landscape.

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3PL Insights

APRIL 7, 2025

April 7, 2024 — Evans Distribution Systems , a full-service third-party logistics (3PL) provider of warehousing, transportation, fulfillment, value-added, and staffing solutions, has activated 378,000-square-feet of additional warehouse space in Allen Park and Detroit, as a General Purpose Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) No. MELVINDALE, Mich.,

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Starting with Miami, this port primarily handles containerized cargo with small amounts of breakbulk, vehicles and industrial equipment. Going up the coast in Jacksonville, FL, there is a huge port that receives the second-most automobiles in the US along with all types of cargo. In 2015, the Port of Savannah moved 8.2% of total U.S.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Avenues of transport are declining as major cargo airlines, like Cathay Pacific , drastically reduce flights to mainland China and Hong Kong. The study include d firms in the retail, manufacturing and distribution verticals. L ogistics providers like Maersk are forced to announce blank sailings due to curtailed demand.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In 2017, Mark recognized a need for logistics service providers to have better access to cost effective All-Risk Shipper’s Interest Cargo Insurance with focus on Mexico. Finally, Reliance is a leader in specialty insurance products such as usage-based cargo insurance, shippers interest policies and Mexican cargo.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Today, 75 to 80% of cargo arrives on time. It fixed a glaring business problem in the industry – a tacit understanding that container liners would charge extra, on top of existing fees, if they had a container they could ship for more (rolled cargo). As long as you know which 75 to 80% is, you can provide a guarantee on that.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Automation, cargo tracking, robotics, and remote fleet management are all examples of how IoT can be used to harness organizational data and gain insights into key processes. DB Schenker is leveraging sensor data from cargo in transit to monitor and control high-value shipments or sensitive shipments, such as with cold chain logistics.

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Freightos

JANUARY 26, 2023

Specifically, my thanks to the airlines and ocean liners who trust WebCargo by Freightos as a digital distribution platform. 90% of products in the US are imported, mostly arriving by sea, in a container, or by air cargo. Cargo, or carga in Spanish, originally means a load or burden. Cargo will no longer be a burden.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2022

Cargo losses escalate as thieves target cars, electronics. The Port of Oakland reported cargo in April dropped 7 percent compared to the same period a year ago due to factory and port shutdowns in China. With the reduction in cargo coming out of Shanghai, some carriers aren’t able to fully load a vessel. s CargoNet.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 19, 2022

Fortunately, strategic planning can help you deliver your land cargo on-time , despite the abundant labor shortages. Low Land Cargo Capacity. Consumers want fast, accurate, and direct shipments, leading less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers to adjust distribution networks to better address order fulfillment from multiple locations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The pandemic halted many supply chains last year, closing factories and stores, and limiting manufacturing and distribution operations. With the lack of drivers and trucks picking up cargo, this is also causing U.S. Companies must be able to operate adaptive distribution networks that easily respond to changing order conditions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

FedEx plans to test autonomous drone cargo delivery with Elroy Air. Air Canada wants more cargo jets 3 months after launching service. FedEx also plans to test autonomous drone cargo delivery, partnering with Elroy Air. Walgreens to offer Wing drone delivery in suburban Dallas. Mexican factories gain in supply chain revamps.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2022

However, I did see reports on the destruction of Ukraine’s Antonov An-225, the world’s largest cargo aircraft. Payments systems, electricity distribution, communications, and other systems are all vulnerable to cyber attacks to some extent. I was unaware of Ukraine’s prominent air transport presence.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2025

But with the explosion of IoT devices across transportation, warehousing, and distribution, logistics providers face a critical challenge: how to ensure continuous, reliable, and cost-effective communication across diverse physical environments and use cases. The solution?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2024

In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long mile-long span. The collapse sent vehicles and people plunging into the water. Walmart Canada is piloting an automated receiving solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2023

Instances of cargo theft increased markedly in 2022, driven in large measure by thieves using fictitious pickups. They estimate $223 million in cargo was stolen across all theft events in 2022. Events that involved the theft of cargo increased by 20% year-over-year. The average value of cargo stolen in an event was $214,104.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Image: iStock/JuSun June 18, 2025 Helen Atkinson, Managing Editor “The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed,” wrote William Gibson in his 1984 novel Neuromancer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2023

A few weeks ago I wrote that Little Brown Bakers, the manufacturer behind Girl Scout Cookies , is warning of unforeseen supply issues that will be impacting both manufacturing and distribution of its treats. pounds of cargo in a hold with about 1,800 cubic inches of space. The company’s latest drone, the X-drone, carries about 7.5

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

million+ transactions annually This network effect means better visibility, more competitive rates, and unparalleled connectivity across the global logistics landscape.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Port backlogs and cargo limitations are undermining efficiency while warehouse and storage space remain challenging. Prioritize freight by gaining insight into inventory needs, distribution network, and consolidation opportunities. Fuel costs are rising, and the infrastructure bill has finally passed.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 9, 2025

As a result, users may receive decisions that are not objective in terms of identifying specific suppliers, customers, manufacturing facilities or distribution methods. Featured Product Popular Stories End to De Minimis Slows Flow of Air Cargo from China to U.S. If there’s bias, AI will produce a biased output.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

The company said it took a $157 million impairment charge for permanently deactivating the 757 cargo jets along with seven engines. By the end of September, FedEx will no longer be the primary air cargo provider for the U.S. distribution centers. Postal Service after UPS recently won the five-year contract.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 9, 2021

Amazon is turning malls into distribution centers. Over the last several months, Amazon has gone on a shopping spree, buying up disused malls across the country and turning them into distribution centers. Between 2016 and 2019, Amazon converted around 25 shopping malls into distribution centers.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 20, 2025

We have taken this proactive measure to safeguard our people, assets, and customers’ cargo in light of increased regional instability." The safety and security of our seafarers and operations are our top priorities," Maersk said in a statement June 20. "We

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 28, 2023

Maergo eliminates the need for expensive regional distribution centers and complex carrier relationships. Their network features include pick-ups seven days a week, flexible sortation, eco-friendly use of passenger flight cargo capacity, and diverse last mile partners.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2023

E-commerce service provider Shopify, apparel retailer American Eagle Outfitters and meal-kit delivery company Blue Apron are among the companies that set expansive strategies in hopes of gaining greater scale, with some looking to establish distribution channels to compete with the sprawling logistics network of Amazon.com.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2024

Data from Motive, which tracks trucking visits to North American distribution facilities for the top five retailers, shows volume up 30% year-over-year in June. The trucking industry is turning a corner after a prolonged freight recession that succeeded the Covid boom in transportation rate and services, according to logistics executives.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 12, 2024

Autonomous supply chains can help businesses by enabling faster and more accurate demand forecasting, optimizing inventory levels and distribution networks, automating warehouse and delivery operations, and enhancing customer service and satisfaction. Rolls Royce predicts that lighter unmanned vessels will burn 15 percent less fuel.

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