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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

Air cargo is used by global importers and exporters when they need to get goods somewhere rapidly and reliably. While 90% of everything is shipped by ocean, air connects the world faster, cutting China-US freight shipping time from 20-30 days by ocean to only 3 days by air cargo. Why Ship Cargo by Air? Security surcharges.

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The Amazonification of Logistics

Techgistics

Amazon Fresh A grocery delivery service that started in Seattle in 2007 and now operates in 16 cities. The lockers currently serve a very specific use case - customers that are not home during the day and packages can not be left securely at their house or apartment.

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Transloading 101: Logistics Guide to Understanding This Essential Shipping Process

ShipBob

When it comes to the long-distance transfer of goods, you probably want the best of both worlds: economical rail transport and flexible over-the-road trucking. Interested to know more about this form of long-haul transportation ? Transloading is process of moving goods between different modes of transportation.

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Freight Audit Data: Why an Audit Is Only the Beginning

Intelligent Audit

A freight bill includes a lot of information that requires the shipper to decide how transportation should be handled. Remember, zone-skipping is a type of change in transportation where items can travel by ground and still arrive within an acceptable time of sending the same shipment by air. For example: Does delivery take too long?

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3 Technology Companies Disrupting Shipping

FLEXE

FLEXE , Flexport and Convoy –three technology companies adding flexibility to the supply chain–,recently hosted the first Peak Logistics breakfast in Seattle, Washington. So today and yesterday, there was not enough capacity, cargo was rolled, prices spiked. So I wanted to tell you, why does your cargo get bumped.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon spends $131 million for stake of cargo airline ATSG. A bipartisan bill in Congress could boost the prospects for women’s careers in transportation , at a time when female airplane pilots, truck drivers, train conductors, and ship captains retain a slim minority of jobs in the sector. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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The supply chain crisis and US ports: ‘Disruption on top of disruption’

Ware2Go

The White House said it had secured pledges from private sector heavyweights such as Walmart, UPS and FedEx to extend their working hours. John Porcari, a former transport official in the Obama administration, was appointed to work with the ports to clear the bottlenecks. Fallon/Bloomberg.