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

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. To fill the rising gaps in shopping malls, many mall owners are converting the empty spaces into fulfillment centers for shipping out orders. But the express carriers are still flying less than they were a year ago because of weak shipping demand. That’s all for this week.

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National Logistics Day 2023

Enterra Insights

The staff at the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) note, however, that the logistics industry plays an “out-sized — and often underappreciated — role … within the greater transportation ecosystem.”[1] By 1956, the first container ship sailed from the port of New Jersey to Texas.

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Back to Logistics Tech School, 2022: the Lost Peak Season, the lingering COVID impact and more

Freightos

Logistics tech in 2022 has been unavoidably shaped by the two years that preceded it. The low rates that triggered Hanjin’s bankruptcy in 2017 quickly became a thing of the past, as surging demand, congestion, and a litany of global shipping catastrophes pushed ocean freight rates into the stratosphere. Uncertainty became the byword.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 31 – August 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Another shipping crisis strikes, threatens Black Friday shopping. Volansi completes first-ever autonomous ship-to-ship drone delivery. In comparison, Tesla is substituting alternative chips and writing new firmware to work its way around the chip shortage.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Earlier this week, the company announced that it will acquire Italy’s Bomi Group, which provides global healthcare logistics services. For comparison, they spent $3.4 On the shipping side, companies seeking fully electrified fleets will need a place to charge up.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

This is in comparison to $40,000 worth of Tonka Trucks. ” And now on to this week’s logistics news. Amazon, Ikea, Patagonia, others commit to zero-emission shipping by 2040. No more room at the logistics warehouse inn, Prologis says. The global shipping crisis does not look like it is going away any time soon.

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The Importance of Sustainability Benchmarking

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies can accurately calculate shipping level emissions and compare them across specific time intervals. The customizable dashboards and reports show the total estimated emissions from FourKites-tracked freight, and enable a deep dive into emissions by mode, changes over time, and comparison to industry benchmarks.