GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Instead, they coordinate between parties to ensure goods are transported efficiently. A freight forwarder takes possession of the cargo, often by owning the containers used to ship goods. Many 3PL providers offer a transportation management system (TMS) , a platform that helps businesses manage their logistics operations in one place.

Negotiating Skills

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2025

The company dynamically positions inventory within its fulfillment network using projected demand heat maps and transportation cost models. In 2017, Maersk’s encounter with NotPetya malware required a full infrastructure rebuild and delayed cargo worldwide. Best practice includes TLS encryption, token-based authentication (e.g.,

Real-time Visibility

Freight Waves

JUNE 20, 2025

Scott Cornell, Vice President of Transportation at Travelers Insurance , sat down with FreightWaves’ Timothy Dooner on the May 19 th episode of What the Truck?!? to discuss the evolving landscape of cargo theft that continues to plague the freight industry. One of the most notable developments is how cargo theft has gone international.

Cargo

GlobalTranz

JULY 29, 2025

Why PTL works: You avoid overpaying for empty trailer space There's less handling, reducing the risk of damage No freight class needed, which simplifies quoting Key benefit: Cost efficiency and cargo protection 2. This is especially important for higher-value PTL shipments. Why Worldwide Express for PTL shipping?

Negotiating Skills

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2025

For example, ARC was recently briefed on SAPs transportation management product. SAP co-innovated an agent focused on intelligent cargo receipt with a major auto manufacturer. Then the agents are surfaced to workers in the form of a co-pilot type user interface. SAPs is called Joule. SAP is, and has been, actively creating agents.

SAP

Freight Waves

JUNE 25, 2025

Unlike transporting goods across state lines, cross-border shipping demands specialized expertise, robust infrastructure and comprehensive security measures. Companies that underestimate these compliance demands often discover the hard way that border efficiency begins with proper documentation and regulatory adherence.

El Paso

TransAudit

JANUARY 13, 2025

Global shipping and transportation present tremendous opportunities for businesses, but they also bring complex challenges, particularly when it comes to compliance. Regulations such as the US Importer Security Filing (ISF) require companies to submit additional documentation to ensure cargo is safe for transport.

Shipping

Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2025

It’s like having your own apartment for your cargo. Or, if you don’t have enough to fill a container, you can share space with others through LCL (Less than Container Load) – think of it as cargo carpooling. From a supply chain perspective, the documentation side can be arduos.

Freight

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 1, 2025

If you need reliable protection for your goods during transport, the type of crate and the capabilities of the supplier matter. Some suppliers only offer generic models, while others provide crates tailored to specific cargo types. Custom crates become necessary when the cargo has unusual dimensions or needs added protection.

Supply Chain Design Software

Cathy Roberson

MARCH 17, 2025

However, transportation and logistics costs can be prohibitive. As such, many SMBs turn to online platforms to sell products and for transportation and logistics assistance. International cross-border e-commerce is typically transported by air cargo. Automated Compliance: Streamlined documentation for cross-border trade.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

IT Supply Chain

JULY 17, 2025

Step 1: Documented Spare-Key Strategy by Route Criticality Think about spare keys as an insurance policy. Instead, build a documented spare-key strategy based on route criticality. Instead, build a documented spare-key strategy based on route criticality. You don’t need them daily, but when you do, they’re priceless.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

Fraudsters are no longer just exploiting weak vetting processes; they’re mimicking legitimate operations down to email signatures, websites and forged documents.” According to Crowley, the most dangerous threat in today’s freight industry is “the rise of identity theft and synthetic carrier profiles.

Supply Chain Network Software

Freight Waves

JUNE 19, 2025

With global cargo theft losses exceeding $80 billion in 2023 and the average cost of a successful fictitious pickup surging to $365,000 per incident in Q1 2024, the industry has been desperately seeking more effective solutions. What truly sets FraudWatch apart is its two-step verification process.

Freight

IT Supply Chain

JULY 14, 2025

The Key Advantages of Implementing Barge Pumping Solutions By Mike Bronson (pictured) Content Writer 78 Views Industrial sectors that depend on liquid cargo movement, such as oil and gas, chemical production, or maritime transport, face constant pressure to improve efficiency while keeping costs under control.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

AI-driven tools will be used to more quickly and accurately search documents and databases. Simply by naming them, AI will understand, semantically and linguistically, how cheap and luxury products normally behave. This leads to incredible precision in forecasting. Powerful enterprise searches will soon require the semantic indexing of data.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

Even if the traffic along the Suez Canal route returns to full throttle in 2025, this shift would cause weeklong processing delays, container backlogs, and a spike in congestion at many European seaports due to the sudden increase in cargo volume. Everstreams data document 471 attacks in 2024. This may be overly optimistic.

Pharmaceutical

Freight Waves

JUNE 17, 2025

In an industry where carrier identity theft and double brokering schemes cost hundreds of millions annually, Descartes has emerged as a frontline defender against fraud in freight transportation. The company’s innovative approach to securing the supply chain has earned it recognition as a winner of the 2025 FreightWaves Fraud Fighter Awards.

Supply Chain Design Software

SCMDOJO

APRIL 17, 2025

Talking about logistics and transportation services, clients do not want to stay behind the scenes anymore, they prefer to monitor and control each step of delivery processes, demanding 100% transparency, this is where Salesforce CRM comes into play. Solution: Salesforce tools make logistic processes more flexible.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Freight Waves

JUNE 28, 2025

In 2024, cargo theft incidents surged to 3,625 across North America, a 27% year-over-year increase, with losses exceeding $455 million and an average loss per theft of $202,364. The economic toll of cargo theft alone is estimated at $15–$35 billion annually, disrupting supply chains and inflating costs for businesses and consumers.

Pharmaceutical

EFT

MAY 26, 2025

Tariff truce will not spark cargo boom at busiest US seaport, executive director says The head of the busiest U.S. billion) guarantee facility, the transport ministry said on Thursday. port does not expect imports to soar after last week's tariff truce between Washington and Beijing that temporarily lowered the duty to 30% from 145%.

Negotiating Skills

Freight Waves

JUNE 21, 2025

billion enterprise with the largest air cargo fleet in the world. economy and international trade by transporting documents and packages. In 1977, FedEx purchased seven Boeing 727 aircraft, each with a cargo capacity of 40,000 pounds – almost seven times that of the Dassault Falcon. FedEx has grown into an $87.7

Las Vegas

SCMDOJO

MAY 30, 2025

Audio translators bridged communication divides, facilitating rapid onboarding of new vendors and transport partners in non-English-speaking countries. This served to dampen container buildup and accelerated the transit of time-sensitive cargo. Suppliers in Poland, Romania, and Hungary emerged as key players.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Shapiro

JULY 15, 2025

How This Impacts Global Shipping and Logistics Even without full enforcement, secondary tariff threats can send shockwaves through shipping and logistics: Energy cargo routes may shift to less obvious channels, increasing costs and complexity. But if enforcement kicks in, expect big changes in how energy is moved, priced, and documented.

United Arab Emirates

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 24, 2025

Maersk, for example, uses blockchain to track shipments, reducing documentation errors by 20%. A McKinsey report found that AI adoption in supply chains cut inventory costs by 15% for early adopters in 2024. Blockchain is also gaining traction for transparency and compliance with tariff regulations.

Price Reduction

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2025

See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) (See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) Criminals are increasingly using cyber tactics to impersonate drivers, falsify load documents, exploit digital load boards and reroute shipments. An y reaction to this cargo theft framework from NMFTA ? Supply Chain Digest Says. What do you say?

Cargo

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 25, 2025

Coast Guard has enacted a new maritime cybersecurity rule , applying it across the Marine Transportation System (MTS) as of July 18. Meeting these new requirements will require investment to perform assessments, documentation and training, said Furgé in a post on MarineLink July 24. The new rule is aimed at U.S.-flagged

Optimal Sourcing

EFT

JULY 7, 2025

Germany begins trials to reopen Mosel river to shipping after accident damaged lock Authorities began trials to reopen the Mosel River in west Germany to domestic freight transportation over the weekend, with ships now able to use a damaged lock after an accident last week. billion rupees ($497.30 million) in fresh capital.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. There will be a document to refer to at any time by any one who needs clarification.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Matters

MAY 19, 2025

Business Insider (Paid subscription) , citing an internal document, later echoed by Reuters , had reported that FedEx garnered cost favorability compared with rival FedEx in securing this new partnership deal. FedEx’s contract as the primary air cargo provider for the USPS expired in September 2024, and was not renewed.

Waste Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

A document outlining that plan said the nations would work jointly to make electric propulsion and jet engines. Featured Product Popular Stories Mobility at the Margins: What Border Crossings Reveal Before Trade Data Does Air Cargo Climate Crisis Has Caused Food Price Spikes Global Supply Chain Management U.S.

India

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 23, 2025

There is one easy answer: a large number of cargo ships continues to avoid sailing in the Red Sea in and out of the Suez Canal, to avoid attacks from so-called Houthi rebels in South Yemen. There will be a document to refer to at any time by any one who needs clarification. That is what is happening right now,” Mortimer says.

South Africa

Talking Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2018

At a minimum, companies will need to be familiar with these most common documents: Bill of Lading (BOL) – A bill of lading is an essential document for any freight shipment. In Mexico, the basic Mexican import document is the pedimento de importacion. Maintain Visibility with a Transportation Management System.

Mexico

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

After securing access to TuffAir’s materials, Amazon abruptly ceased communications, only to unveil a remarkably similar regional air cargo model within months, based on the same technical, operational and strategic elements TuffAir had disclosed,” the company alleged in its legal filing. No comment as yet on the suit from Amazon.

Supply Chain Design Software

GlobalTranz

MAY 15, 2025

Each mode of freight transportation comes with its own set of required documents, many of which are legally binding. And if you're shipping internationally, the documentation gets even more complex, playing a key role in customs clearance and regulatory compliance. LTL BOL requires precision.

Freight

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 23, 2025

Pursuing compensation through a lawsuit can be complex, especially given the resources and legal teams many transportation firms have on retainer. An attorney can subpoena documents and secure black box data that may indicate speed, braking, or mechanical issues. The plaintiff suffered actual damages as a result.

Company

Descartes

JULY 3, 2025

Provides Transportation Industry with Next-Generation Solution for Freight Fraud Defense ATLANTA, Georgia, July 7, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced the release of Descartes MacroPoint™ FraudGuard 2.0,

Logistics Network Optimization Software

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Our vision at TRAMES, is to reduce global trade barriers through digitalizing international freight and transportation. By convening players, who would normally work in isolation, to participate on a collaborative platform, information and documentation can now be relayed dynamically, in real time. b) Within each service pillar.

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