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This Week in Logistics News (September 30 – October 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. FedEx flight utilization, on a sequential basis, jumped 17% in August following a 9% drop the prior month, while the year-over-year comparison improved to minus 7% versus down 14% in July, according to Morgan Stanley’s Parcel Tracker report. That’s all for this week.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

After years of declining revenues in European logistics services, the business started to stabilise in 2013/2014. Europe has seen plenty of activity in terms of mergers and acquisitions, including the take-over of the major French family-owned company Norbert Dentressangle by America’s XPO Logistics. SCM 3PL Subway 2015. Guinea-bissau.

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September and Q3 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices Enter Contraction Trending

Supply Chain Matters

Ireland stood out as the only EU nation to record an expansionary PMI with a value of 51.5. Contraction comparisons to that of 2020 during the heights of the Covid-19 pandemic are meaningful. the S&P Global / CIPS UK Manufacturing PMI® for September posted another contraction level value of 48.4, up from a 47.3 reported for August.