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Supply Chain Sustainability Gathers Steam

Logistics Viewpoints

The global supply chain is routinely beset by challenges, both large and small, but the past couple of years have delivered a string of significant logistics disruptions that have threatened to upend the tightly choreographed dance of global freight transportation. That’s starting to change. More and more large U.S. More and more large U.S.

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The Empty Container Marketplace with Sean Bardon

The Logistics of Logistics

Sean is the Co-founder and COO at Qualle , The world’s first empty container marketplace that connects exporters, importers, trucking companies, and steamship lines. The poor management of containers drives extra costs, wasted time, empty miles for trucking companies, and excess pollution.

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REPOST: Selecting an E-commerce Fulfillment Partner with AJ Khanijow

The Logistics of Logistics

For e-commerce companies the difference between success and failure is fulfillment. As the founder of an fulfillment company that specializing in e-commerce, AJ knows what companies should look for in an e-commerce fulfillment partner. AJ Khanijow and Joe Lynch discuss selecting an e-commerce fulfillment partner.

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Protect Your Shipments From Cargo Theft

Zipline Logistics

Cargo Theft Increases in the United States Cities seeing a spike in freight theft include Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Savannah, Newark, New Jersey, Memphis, and Chicago. They do this by creating fictitious pickups in which they pretend to be a legitimate trucking company operating on load boards (online freight management systems).

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Trimble Acquires Brazil-Based Veltec to Expand its Global Portfolio of Transportation Solutions. So if you can provide warehousing, transportation and/or material handling equipment to support disaster relief efforts, I encourage you to contact ALAN. Amazon Patents Drone Chute For Quiet Deliveries (CB Insights).

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The 5 Largest LTL Carriers

The Logistics of Logistics

Each of the top five companies has a national footprint with tons of resources and top notch teams. FedEx Corporation is based in Memphis TN and has $42.7B YRC Worldwide is a Fortune 500 company based in Overland Park, KS. In 2012, the company had revenues of $4.9B. The 5 largest LTL carriers together have $16.2

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Book Review: Logistics Clusters-Delivering Value and Driving Growth

Supply Chain Opz

A couple of months ago, I asked one question on Quora about how 3pl companies select a warehouse or facility location. While industrial clusters are extensively covered in many economic literature, logistics clusters which focus on various activities in transportation and distribution is the uncharted territory.