GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice! Did You Know That ….

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JULY 19, 2020

Less than container load (LCL) shipping is rapidly becoming a go-to service option for businesses seeking help in a complex global logistics industry. As COVID-19 affected businesses around the world, the need for expedited LCL shipping grew significantly. The right level of LCL shipping expertise. Reduced costs.

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Turvo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What’s in this article : A crisis that is affecting the world economy – record-high shipping rates. A problem also linked to shipping companies. Record-high shipping rates are affecting the world economy. Fewer ships in operation . The role of shipping companies. What happened to the containers?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Shippers, beneficial cargo owners or non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) are responsible for verifying weights. Shippers are required to communicate verified weights in a shipping document. A number of carriers, for example, use cloud technology to offer an e-commerce platform to handle customer transactions.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the race to fill distribution centers and store shelves with inventory for the holidays, some of the world’s largest retailers and ecommerce sellers are jumping ahead of smaller competitors by chartering ships, shifting freight to air, re-rerouting inland shipments, and hiring more staff for distribution centers and other supply chain nodes.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Planes, Cranes, and Barges: How America Is Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos. With global cargo lanes clogged, businesses are turning to new ways to deliver goods. Mississippi River cargo traffic near Luling, La. And 25 miles north, Intel Corp. We had a good cargo business before the pandemic. Businessweek.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, carriers plan to reduce the capacity for the Asia-to-North America West Coast trade lanes by as much as 29% in the weeks following China’s Golden week in early October. Facing difficulty in the trans-Pacific market, industry-leading shipping giant Maersk has announced it’s dropped two trans-pacific services.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Here are some examples from the past few months: P&G : P&G is undertaking “a multibillion-dollar effort to remake an antiquated and inefficient network of factories, warehouses and offices into a new model that gets goods to stores more quickly,” reported Sharon Terlep in the Wall Street Journal this past February.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

As an example, retailer Walmart indicated has reportedly cut inventory levels by 9 percent this year while Target reported that inventories were 16 percent lower than the year-ago period. Spot rates for the Shanghai to Los Angeles shipping lane segment reportedly averaged $1823. percent drop in cargo volumes. The two U.S.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Meanwhile, 75% of furniture retailer, Ethan Allen’s products are made in North America. ports we use to take advantage of the shipping availability, Dollar General’s CEO Mike Witynski told analysts. Much of the shift is to the US, which, according to the CEO lowers its merchandising lead times.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

For example, regular regional deliveries may work for small carriers, but large carriers may be required for longer distances and steady lanes. In other words, small carriers own most of the available capacity in North America. And the options aren’t much easier to sort through for ocean and air shipping.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MARCH 14, 2020

and globally, staying close to our contract carriers and discussing continuity plans in the event shipping trajectories need to be adjusted due to disruptions or closures at any ports. Cargo space may be constricted as certain limitations are imposed on passenger travel resulting from adjusted flight schedules and capacity.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2016

Shipping costs are always an item of interest, and as the Wall Street Journal reported : . In the quarter, shipping costs jumped 37% to $4.17 As a percentage of sales, shipping costs rose to 12.5% Robinson announced that it opened “a new state of the art certified cargo screening facility (CCSF) in Carson, CA.”

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TMC

MAY 26, 2016

Where are you likely to encounter the worst bottlenecks when shipping product between the U.S. Level cargo flows. For example, a U.S. supplier ships more product than a buyer in Mexico can handle. In addition, collaborate with border warehouses to manage red-flagged units by, for example, sequencing them to depart first.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

For example, regular regional deliveries may work for small carriers, but large carriers may be required for longer distances and steady lanes. In other words, small carriers own most of the available capacity in North America. And the options aren’t much easier to sort through for ocean and air shipping.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

For example, regular regional deliveries may work for small carriers, but large carriers may be required for longer distances and steady lanes. In other words, small carriers own most of the available capacity in North America. And the options aren’t much easier to sort through for ocean and air shipping.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

James Winebrake, Dean of College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology There are a number of important trends happening in the freight industry, spanning all modes of transportation: trucking, shipping, rail, pipeline, and air. In North America the low hanging fruit for long-haul loads is rail. In the U.S.,

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 20, 2017

For example, regular regional deliveries may work for small carriers, but large carriers may be required for longer distances and steady lanes. In other words, small carriers own most of the available capacity in North America. And the options aren’t much easier to sort through for ocean and air shipping.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That said, implementing Lean concepts would undoubtedly be part of that strategy, for example, - Lean Warehousing : Many firms (both retailers and manufacturers) are now aggressively rolling out Lean in their warehouse operations. These are three examples: Rule 3.1: Aggregate forecasts are more accurate than individual forecasts.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America.

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Global Trade Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. That was the message of a panel of experts on perishables shipping Wednesday at the AirCargo Americas Conference in Miami. • Disagreements over shipping practices within the industry itself. . • Disagreements over shipping practices within the industry itself.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

For example, FedEx’s upcoming levy is based on an EIA-established price that is at least $4.09 Americold employs 17,000 people worldwide and operates more than 24 temperature-controlled warehouses across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America. a gallon but less than $4.18

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Is it because some of the biggest parts are being shipped from another manufacturing location? For example, in India, where there have been poor driver standards, carmakers are investing in driver training. Logistics in Mexico is actually quite developed, but there are still high cargo rates, and questions about port and rail capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

Just last year many were chartering their own cargo ships to get all these goods to their destinations.) Strategy and leadership teams might elect to be alerted to production line disruptions, for example, so they receive details about every impacted order.

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Resilinc

MARCH 5, 2024

Drought in China Impact on Supply Chain The Yangtze River Basin, home to Asia’s longest river, boasts a staggering annual cargo volume of over 3 billion tonnes. This drought impacted hydropower, disrupted shipping, and affected five million people in southern China, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 4, 2021

Build in flexibility to improve shipping performance. Wicked winter storms and a major pileup of cargo ships in the Suez Canal have since created other supply chain disruptions. That’s just one example. Robinson, we can make bigger commitments because we have a bigger network—the largest LTL network in North America.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Originally native to Asia, the BMSB was accidentally imported to North America in the late 1990s, and to some European countries after 2000. Now, for example, all-terrain vehicles, golf carts, quad bikes, and side-by-side racers are no longer eligible to meet the BMSB management exclusion criteria. New requirements this year.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 10, 2017

CX North America Integrates Its Freight Collaboration Platform With Active Aero Group’s Technology. While the containers themselves can be loaded on a ship in a matter of minutes, a container can be held up in port for days because a piece of paper goes missing, while the goods inside spoil. WSJ – sub.

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Freightera

APRIL 22, 2024

If You’ve Ever Wondered Why Shipping is so Expensive, You’ve Come to the Right Place If you’ve ever needed to ship anything larger than a small box, you probably already saw that the number next to the dollar sign can have one or two digits more compared to your usual parcel shipments. option will be rail shipping.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 28, 2021

That includes anticipating every possible contingency to mitigate disruptions in shipping. Unpredictability in shipping. For breakbulk cargo, you could call to book space on a vessel for next week. Port congestion is making it hard to know when incoming ships will be able to berth. Robinson’s for more than a decade.

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Freightera

MAY 20, 2022

If you’d like to pick up a few things about stressless less than truckload shipping, you’ve come to the right place. In the shipping business, we often forget about the good things that come from our efforts due to the stressful nature of the work itself. It’s just not possible. . And why would their carrier stop them?

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 22, 2018

Imagine moving cargo across continents as smoothly as computers process data. Data-centric freight exchanges and intelligent multimodal cross-docking hubs will allow haulers to move cargo effortlessly by road, rail, sea and air and seamlessly change carrier, or even transport mode, in real time. Will the industry embrace such change?

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

“This would increase the complexity of route planning and make more difficult the quest to eliminate empty back hauls as the number of shipping points increases and the number of shipments out of more rural locations increases,” explains Skip Berry in an article published by Clarkston Consulting. This is known as “dropshipping.”

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 15, 2013

The move by BVL to create the chapter in the Carolinas is not only a recognition of the area as a supply chain hub but also a move to expand the organization’s footprint into North America. No sooner did I mention this in my speech, but I picked up my Wall Street Journal today and found a great example.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Passages, capes, and straits are defined as geographical areas through which international shipping routes must transit. These routes are typically found connecting important marketplaces with active commercial trade systems, such as Western Europe, North America, and East Asia. Potential for closure or interruption.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

For example, key indicators such as blood pressure, glucose levels and weight can be monitored remotely. For example, fall alerts for senior citizens or monitoring of facial expressions to pick up signs of emotional distress in patients. For example, there are drugs with sensors onboard that monitor medication as it is given.

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Freightera

MAY 26, 2017

As many of you may be aware, freight shipping, international shipping and also aviation are not included in the COP21 agreement. The shipping industry is currently a vast producer of nitrous oxides and sulfate oxides, produce about 15% of the total nitrous oxides emissions in the world. It’s currently 19% of total CO2 emissions.

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