Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The company is present in 38 nations and has more than 40,000 employees. There was no air freight possible then into Europe,” added Gerald van den Eijnden. You would call up the freight forwarders, and they would send an Excel spreadsheet” that contained all the shipments for Molex in the coming days or weeks. Keys to Success.

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Turvo

JULY 15, 2021

Managers have to ensure enough containers exist at any moment to hold cargo and enough trucks become available to transport them. According to The Loadstar , “Some segments are already very busy and close to their limit, pointing to e-commerce, temperature-controlled trucking, and the flatbed freight market.

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Freightos

JANUARY 25, 2024

Aimee Loshinsky January 25, 2024 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo In Freightos Q4 2023 KPI press release , we announced that the company surpassed one million bookings across the platform in 2023. Freight is digitizing itself now at real scale.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The list is presented in the order the responses were received in: 1) Andreas Wieland , Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Business School Successful supply chain management means that organizations are well-orchestrated in an end-to-end value network. That might mean diverting from Los Angeles/Long Beach to Canada or Mexico.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 8, 2023

Is your company one of the many that take a minimalist approach to freight management? Yes… I did say minimalist, not lean. When I say minimalist, I’m talking about the many companies which, while reliant on freight to keep supplies coming in and products going out, don’t see freight management as a core competency.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 25, 2024

Express average daily volumes fell 2.9%, with no change in Ground and Freight average daily shipments per day declined 4.1%. While UPS is the only carrier that provides a percentage of volume type in its quarterly presentations, it is also a good general representation for FedEx. billion, while operating income increased 19.2%

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

The biggest issue today that shippers have to worry about is freight loss claims, personal injury, and of course, liability! Most have $1M of coverage for the carrier, because even though they did not cause the damage in many cases, they were present. A question: How much liability are most truckers required to have?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 28, 2018

Unfortunately, it’s the best way to describe what is happening right now in the air and ocean freight markets. Usually, this is roughly how a typical busy season goes: Air freight. Ocean freight. Ocean volumes gathered momentum starting the last week in June, and air freight volumes started increasing in mid-July.

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BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2014

Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) were the center of the cargo transportation universe and the shippers were fully reliant on them for all their logistics needs. A true cargo pricing bazaar was the result. Fast forward to present day. Those were the good old days.

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Intelligent Audit

APRIL 15, 2021

However, power is knowledge, and shippers who rely on data and transportation analytics to serve as a decision-making guide can make smarter transportation procurement decisions. It’s challenging to visualize the overall flow of ocean freight. At present, ocean freight requires a 2-week prebooking advance to get a spot on the ship.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Bed Bath & Beyond @BedBathBeyond Bed Bath & Beyond has discovered a way to save millions of dollars on freight over the next few years, thanks to a new 755,000 square-foot distribution facility slated to open in the fall of 2019. The new facility will allow the company to offer two-day shipping to most (about 90%) of the U.S.

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Freightos

MAY 31, 2022

This is an exciting milestone that accelerates our vision of a digital platform that modernizes international freight and improves global trade. I assumed, after all, that freight carriers would publish APIs simply because they wanted to fill their vessels efficiently. The official announcement is here. First, some background.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 17, 2019

His works include podcasts, e-books, whitepapers, case studies, infographics and personalized presentations for major supply chain conferences. His works remain expansive—from procurement through reverse logistics and even facilities management for the supply chain itself. . and abroad. Bridget McCrea. Jennifer Smith (WSJ).

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