Cargo Examples Seattle Sourcing 
Logistics Bureau
MARCH 19, 2020
Examples are: Samsung Electronics , which is shifting part of its domestic phone production to Vietnam due to the rapid advance of COVID-19 in South Korea. European electronic component distributor TTI says it is using air cargo companies UPS, FedEx, and DHL to mitigate the impact of holdups in China.
Talking Logistics
JULY 29, 2016
Seattle startup Flexe pulls in $14 million from investors (The Seattle Times). Booking a flight has been electronic for 50 years, but the cargo on airplanes, trucks, and ships is still booked manually. Freightos Launches First International Freight Marketplace to Power $2 Trillion Worth of U.S. Annual Imports.
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Freightos
JULY 26, 2018
These examples are from retail, but I sense that the same customer empowerment phenomenon is happening broadly across everything we do at Amazon and most other industries as well. Source: Amazon.com. About half of these jobs are in the US, and half of them based out of their Seattle headquarters. Team Analysis.
DAT Solutions
AUGUST 31, 2017
Trucks can’t get in or out of Houston , which is a huge freight hub – it’s the number 1 source of loads for flatbeds, thanks to the oil and gas industry, and one of the top 5 or 6 markets for both van and reefer freight. Seattle to Spokane rates fell 11¢, to $2.67
Talking Logistics
DECEMBER 18, 2015
In this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon in talks to lease 20 jets to launch air-cargo business (The Seattle Times). Seattle passes law letting Uber, Lyft drivers unionize (Reuters). Last week, for example, the news was about Amazon investing in its own truck trailers. Baird & Co.
Cathy Roberson
MARCH 25, 2024
These tech tools may also use crowd-sourced carriers or traditional ones. Another example and the biggest threat for FedEx and UPS is Amazon Business, launched in 2015 to address the SME business market. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets on Air Cargo Next.
ShipBob
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Example A single shipment of books, from Canada, lands in California and is sent to a local warehouse. A shipment of glass bottles from San Francisco reaches a cross-docking facility in Seattle. And from there, it’s loaded onto a cargo train and moved to New York station. This adds to the flexibility that you can leverage.
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