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This Week in Logistics News (February 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

At this time, the company does not provide customers with any information about who is delivering their packages. The industry added jobs at a time when logistics companies have been coping with a faltering freight market for the past 20 months. Bank Freight Payment Index. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Supply Chain Fraud 101

Logistics Viewpoints

Weather delays can affect shipping lanes, manufacturers face product shortages, demand continues to spike for certain products, containers are difficult to acquire, and the trucking industry faces a driver and capacity shortage, just to name a few. When we think of fraud in the supply chains, often we think about organized cargo theft.

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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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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

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. The Arkansas Department of Transportation expects 1.5

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Finding Expedited Freight Solutions for CPG Shippers’ Critical Moves

Zipline Logistics

If you have an order that needs to get to its destination in a hurry, expedited freight options could be your best choice for delivery. Though often a result of an unexpected need, there is still a way to control costs and ensure quality performance when arranging expedited freight services. What Is Expedited Freight?

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Containerized shipping joins modern financial world with CME futures

Freightos

Which brings us to international freight. It’s challenging to get fixed prices for global freight. Conversely in 2021 when rates were sky high, suddenly companies that had negotiated fixed rates couldn’t get their cargo on the ship without paying an extra premium surcharge. Hedging for freight price volatility.

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Is TPPA going to ground e-commerce or let it fly (ideally, as air freight)?

DELMIA Quintiq

And, if many of those packages cross the Pacific waters, or generally travel farther than 600 kilometers, the air cargo shippers specializing in express packages will also stand to benefit from that wave of volume. That leaves the trans-Pacific air freight lane as the key engine of growth, both in volume and revenue.