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What Are General Rate Increases in Shipping & What Should Enterprises Know?

Intelligent Audit

In modern freight transportation services, GRI stands for General Rate Increase. As a shipper, it’s impossible to avoid rate increases at times, and while freight invoice audits help to catch errors, not knowing the facts behind GRIs will only open the doors to risk. FedEx Freight shipping rates will increase by an average of 4.9%

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This Week in Logistics News (June 10-14, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Transplace Updates, Enhances TMS Freight Allocation Module 2.0. Con-way Freight Announces 2013 General Rate Increase. Freight Shipments Fell 1.2% provides greater flexibility in establishing how the freight is presented to authorized carriers, and the amount of visibility carriers have into the progress of the auction.

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Biden Releases 1M Barrels/Day From Strategic Reserve, Shippers Hope for Results

Intelligent Audit

In response to continued rising fuel prices, both FedEx and UPS have implemented higher fuel surcharges as follows, effective April 4, 2022: FedEx Express and FedEx Ground Surcharges rose to 21.75% for Domestic and US to Puerto Rico. Normalize data to enable apples-to-apples comparisons.

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Doing Business in the United States

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In addition, the United States has several permanently inhabited territories, including Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. For comparison, this makes the country about half the size of Russia or South America, and more than twice the size of the European Union. Annual freight traffic equaled about 37.22

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

Puerto Rico. In comparison, according to Fraunhofer Institute, warehousing is outsourced by 54% in Germany, which is the largest logistics market in Europe. Northern Mariana Islands. Palestinian Territory, Occupied. Papua New Guinea. Philippines. Russian Federation. Saint Helena. Saint Kitts and Nevis. Saint Lucia.