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11 Ways Tech Will Change Logistics in 2017

Freightos

Freight Booking Is (Slowly) Going Online. For years, online freight was limited to US domestic trucking. In 2016, it landed in Europe with a uShip/DB Schenker partnership. For decades, freight was about bigger ships. Today, there’s global recognition that digital freight is the future. Everything’s Digital.

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The Silk Railway: freight train from China pulls up in Madrid

Global Trade Management

En route it passed through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and France before arriving at the Abroñigal freight terminal in Madrid. It consisted of 30 containers carrying 1,400 tonnes of cargo – mostly toys, stationery and other items for sale over Christmas across Europe.

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ZF brings in SupplyOn to gain real-time transparency for overseas transport at the material number level

SupplyOn

Many of the materials are produced in Europe and then delivered for final assembly to ZF plants all over the world which, in turn, are directly linked to the customers’ plants. Due to the number of consolidated containers, tracking at the material level was necessary and implemented on the basis of Advance Shipping Notification (ASN).

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The need to know

EFT

The need to know from Reuters’ global network of journalists Retailers rush to save US summer shopping season U.S. Container ship owners swamped as US-China trade detente revives demand Container ship bookings for China-to-U.S. retailers including Walmart (WMT.N) France's CMA CGM to redeploy fleet to avoid U.S.