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Top Five Transportation Trends

Logistics Viewpoints

The first of the transportation trends is the network effect is at the heart of supply chain transformation. Essentially, the network effect exists when all components of the supply chain technology ecosystem work together to improve the performance of the end-to-end supply chain.

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Shopify, Flexport and Freightos in Supply Chain Tech Related News

Supply Chain Matters

Feightos Goes Public in SPAC Deal Cloud based freight booking and payments tech provider Freightos began trading as a public company in late January via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company Gesher I Acquisition. As we pen this posting, the company’s stock has declined to $5.35

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Breaking Supply Chain News Involving Amazon and C.H. Robinson

Supply Chain Matters

Further reported, in citing people familiar with matter, was that in addition to ongoing efforts to align excess capacity further include selling excess space on the company’s cargo aircraft. . Robinson , Bob Biesterfeld , has been ousted at America ’s largest freight brokers by revenue. Robinson Ousts CEO. The CEO of C.H.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 1-5, 2016)

Talking Logistics

As reported by The Seattle Times , “Amazon will fly its latest Boeing 767 widebody jet freighter, publicly revealing the new ‘Prime Air’ branded livery of its fast-growing fleet of used cargo planes” at today’s Seafair aerial display over Lake Washington near Seattle. The video below shows the jet freighter getting painted.

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Snapshot of 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Part Four

Supply Chain Matters

With overall industry fleet capacity expected to be in excess of global demand, shippers and beneficial cargo owners are in a better position to negotiate such concessions or elect to contract loads in the spot market. Robinson suddenly ousted its CEO.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Paul Dittmann , Executive Director of the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee Improving operational efficiency in the global supply chain is a complex undertaking, and requires a documented, multi-year strategy instead of knee jerk reactions, and programs of the month.

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Gravity: Platinum Sponsors at TPM Tech

Gravity Supply Chain

From peers in the LogTech space to shippers, retailers, 3PLs, and freight forwarders, we have enjoyed meeting new and familiar faces to catch up in person. Long Beach: Effectively managing your supply chain in a time of disruption. We also visited the Long Beach port complex.