Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Meanwhile, Europe accelerates its hydrogen transition, digital product passports gain traction for compliance, and a high-stakes egg heist underscores the fragility of food supply chains. Postal Service reversing its package ban from China to LGs big robotics acquisition, companies are adapting to new regulations and automation trends.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 4, 2025

About Express Logistics Group (T-Rex Prestige Worldwide) Express Logistics Group , a T-Rex Prestige Worldwide company is an elite transportation team focusing in food service, retail and industrial manufacturing. Together they created T-Rex Prestige Worldwide, founded on ownership, execution, and a constant desire to be the best.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2019

We will turn over each stone and consider how innovative technology will shape the future of shipping and logistics. So, let us reflect on the peak shipping season trends we saw at the close of 2018 and how those trends will affect the industry now and throughout 2019. Of course, the best plans depend on the actions of yesterday.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

Commercial teams operate in a ship-to environment, but the supply chain teams operate in a transactional world based on a ship from model. Visibility of the translation layer of ship to converted to ship from is not existent. The signal is clear for commercial teams, but not for supply. The reason?

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Freightos

JULY 22, 2021

Consumer prices for goods, excluding costs of energy and food, made record jumps in April and May, with the overall Consumer Price Index increasing 5.4% But as consumer spending shifted from services to goods nearly a year ago, demand for ocean freight has consistently outpaced container ship capacity, pushing freight rates to record highs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2022

Shipping companies added capacity, but now containers are stuck in port. Legislation introduced to improve food safety and hold FDA accountable. During the peak of port congestion in 2021, as many as 30 ships were waiting to enter an Oakland berth. Ship operators and brokers say that at the start of 2022, there were around 50.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2024

Anti-narcotics investigators have uncovered substantial amounts of the disguised drugs in the past two years as smugglers go to ever-more elaborate lengths to get illicit cargoes on board ships. Guffey added that the company is meeting with the agency weekly to ensure a smooth transition before the peak holiday shipping season.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2024

In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long The end result of the loss of propulsion was the ship crashing into the bridge. mile-long span. An estimated 11.5

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

COVID-19 triggered an unprecedented surge in panic buying of food, beverages, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and other essentials. COVID-19 exposed vulnerabilities in food supply chains. Food supplies were hit by plant shutdowns to ensure worker safety before re-opening, on a limited basis in some cases.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 6, 2021

Another shipping crisis strikes, threatens Black Friday shopping. Volansi completes first-ever autonomous ship-to-ship drone delivery. Pet food shortages leave owners on the hunt for kibble and cat treats. Amazon’s Whole Foods to add delivery charges. Shoppers were informed of a $9.95

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

DOWNLOAD NOW RETURN TO THE ARCHIVE Featured articles from this issue: h6 LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – September 2023 Responding to the 2023 IMO GHG Strategy Management of Ocean Transit Time Reliability and Visibility The Green Corridor: Food for Thought Pushing the Boundaries of Sustainable Shipping

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 14, 2021

International Airports and Ports almost came to a standstill as the worlds international airline fleets were grounded and maritime shipping disrupted and stalled. The pandemic exposed major supply chain vulnerabilities affecting the Manufacturing, Industrial Logistics , Commercial sectors as well as Food Security challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 15, 2022

Well, the Environmental Protection Agency states that this species “ was introduced into the United States in the mid-1990s, possibly stowing away in a shipping container.” Prior to this insight I thought there was no downside to the benefits brought to shipping from the standardized shipping container. Alphabet Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Mr. Master’s experience at Simmons Foods illustrates many of the distinct characteristics and challenges related to freight procurement. Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer. They are a leading supplier of poultry, pet food and animal nutrition products based in Siloam Springs, Arkansas in the US.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Costco is renting 3 container ships and ‘several thousand containers’ Amazon ends free Prime delivery for Whole Foods deliveries. Even with a labor shortage, large retailers are gearing up for the holiday season by bringing in hundreds of thousands of employees ahead of the shopping and shipping surge.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2021

Dublin-based Evocco lets you track, improve, and offset the climate impact of your food purchases based on your receipt. Users photograph their grocery receipt using the Evocco app, which identifies the food products by reading the printed text and using machine learning. Egypt’s Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

Container shipping prices skyrocket. Descartes Systems Group , a global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that it has acquired GreenMile, a provider of cloud-based mobile route execution solutions for food, beverage, and broader distribution verticals. Descartes acquires GreenMile.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 2, 2018

Food Safety. Yael Tamar, CEO and founder of DigiMark , a blockchain-focused marketing agency, suggests blockchain technology could improve food safety. This has obvious implications for food safety—when salmonella or other contaminants are discovered in an item. Another application lies with shipping and logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

The initiative aims to reduce food waste, provide fresher produce to customers and improve supply chain management by giving sourcing managers more information about factors impacting seasonal crops. The USDA has estimated that 30 percent of food loss occurs during agricultural production and harvest.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Pushing the Boundaries of Sustainable Shipping How the Rotterdam-Singapore Green and Digital Shipping Corridor Project is Helping to Reduce Shipping Emissions in Practice by Refke Gunnewijk Sustainable long-haul transport is one of the biggest challenges on the way to a carbon-neutral society.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2024

Amazon in the news: Amazon’s Prime orders are getting delivered faster and faster Hawaiian Airlines slowly adds freighters for Amazon business Walmart in-store AI is giving employees advice on how to sell products USPS delivery unit proposal sparks service, cost concerns for shipping partners White House earmarks $1.5B

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Green Corridor: Food for Thought Origin Transparency and Revolutionary Substitution for Supply Chains in a Fragmented yet Increasingly Digital World by Timothy Foote, Founder of Susymbio In our LogiSYM Magazine, there are many articles and adverts which help to provide transparency on the flow of goods from supplier and to the final customer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Demand for grocery delivery cools as food costs rise. In all, the acquisition will add more than 350 temperature-controlled vehicles and four million square feet to the UPS Healthcare global footprint, offering customers access to faster shipping times, greater production flexibility, and offerings to help them attract new business.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The company has committed itself to providing efficient and sustainable climate control solutions that reduce global emissions linked to the heating and cooling of buildings and food waste. The equipment they ship is often too large to go in one truck and needs to ship in multiple pieces. The Trane supply chain is challenging.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Instead of shipping a new smartphone to someone’s house and having it left on the front steps, one of Enjoy’s delivery workers will personally deliver and set up the phone, and then sell additional services. Johnson sees the company as a combination of white-glove delivery service and an army of door-to-door salespeople.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2023

Shane is Founder and CEO of Square1 Distribution & Logistics , a 3PL Warehouse that focuses on the Beauty and Packaged Food sectors. He is the Founder and CEO of Square1 Distribution & Logistics, a 3PL Warehouse that focuses on the Beauty and Packaged Food sectors. He is also a US Army veteran.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Today’s headline news includes AllBirds, Boeing, Canada Goose, Chemours, EMC, Hanes Brands, Fisker, Ford, Krispy Kreme, LKQ, Ryder, Tesla, Timken, Tyson Foods, Weight Watchers International, and WestRock. Most supply chain models are “ship from” models based on orders. The issue is cross-industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2023

Some sellers have said their customers return items at a higher clip on Amazon than when bought from other outlets, a discrepancy they chalk up to Amazon’s easy checkout process and fast Prime shipping. America shipped, received and returned 21.2 Walmart is looking to AI to make the shopping experience better. By 2028, annual U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

NYC passes bill to cap food delivery fees. The global shipping crisis and labor shortages have put the industry on edge over the last few months, especially as the holiday shopping season approaches. Food delivery has soared since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. FedEx testing autonomous delivery robot on Richardson streets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

Grocery trade group prepares for 2023 launch of stricter food tracing regulations. For merchants using FBA, Amazon handles the process of picking, packing, and shipping items. Uber Eats want to deliver a lot more than food these days. Uber Eats teams up with Office Depot for on-demand school supplies. Kinaxis acquires MPO.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2023

billion) and food ($7.3 The point is to stop shipping small online orders in boxes that are ridiculously oversized. has been shipping orders in made-to-fit packaging for roughly a decade, and the automation has cut the average box size in half and reduced shipping and packaging material expenses. billion), gifts ($3.8

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

Ongoing attacks on vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthis continue to disrupt shipping lanes in the chemical industry’s supply chain, according to Al Greenwood, chemicals expert and deputy editor at ICIS. shipping containers and stacking them up to six high. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

Amazon shipped last-minute Christmas gifts faster in 2023 than in 2022, according to data from analyst firm Momentum Commerce. products on the platform warned it would ship after Christmas. products on the platform warned it would ship after Christmas. DHL Group does not operate ships but it uses them to transport containers.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Amazon is already well underway with developing a two-hour delivery option for Prime members shopping at Whole Foods, asserts Dennis Green via Business Insider. Also, Amazon has rolled out two-hour delivery for Whole Foods products in 14 metro areas, and more are coming.

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Freightos

JANUARY 26, 2023

It delivers essentials: food, clothes, medicines; and luxuries like cellphones and toys. If international shipping didn’t exist, well, we’d all be standing here naked. And while global freight supports some $19 trillion in global trade, what a burden shipping has been. Today digital international shipping comes of age.

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QAD

APRIL 4, 2024

Updated: April 4, 2024 Published: July 17, 2021 In today’s competitive food and beverage marketplace, events occur and challenges arise that impact the normal course of business. In essence, today, these are for the most part just part of the normal day to day business of food manufacturing. Why keep a secret?

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