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Logistics Report: Forecasting More Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Shifting Compet ition

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Forecasting Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Challenge. Freight heavyweight J.B. Hunt’s third-quarter earnings signal a strong market for freight operators, but increasingly restrained economic forecasts suggest clouds on the horizon. PHOTO: KARIM SAHIB/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES.

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UPS Delivers Lower Profit Forecast After Holiday Rush

Supply Chain Network

Agence France-Presse. NEW YORK – UPS on Friday slashed its fourth-quarter profit forecast after the company hired 30,000 extra temporary employees due to an unexpected increase in holiday deliveries. forecast by analysts. per share, below its previous forecast of $4.65 Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2014.

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

Zara also works with Air France, KLM Cargo and Emirates Air in order that they can coordinate directly with the airlines to make the outbound shipments to its stores and bring back some raw materials and semi-finished materials with return legs. In order to compensate a long waiting time, Adidas uses air freight or courier service.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 17-21, 2016)

Talking Logistics

billion in France to double capacity at Roissy airport. R2 Freight & Logistics, Inc. “Adjusting for the larger ups and downs this year, as well as talking with many fleets, I currently see a softer than normal freight environment, which is likely to continue until the inventory correction is complete.

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Sustainability is the focus of global rail revitalization

DELMIA Quintiq

For example, France recently signed into law a ban on short domestic flights, specifically targeting routes where alternative high-speed rail services are available. These investments will bring about significant improvements not only in passenger movement but also in freight traffic.”

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 3.11-3.15

Freight Plus

Monday, a blaze ignited on the MV Grande America 205 miles off the coast of Brest, France. Mack forecasted another 310,000 Class 8 orders in 2019. Meanwhile, in this week's, "Where's my freight?!". The company has refocused its attention to buying back $2.5 billion of its own stock. If you look at 2019 here in the U.S.,

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InSight, InControl: Real-time position and quality monitoring for production material transports

SupplyOn

Sea freight is one big black hole: while a container is at sea, the materials planner generally has to spend weeks trusting blindly that it will arrive at the port on schedule. This is even more true if the transport is intermodal, i.e. where land, air and sea freight are combined.