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This Week in Logistics News (June 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

Add in soaring air freight costs, and the fruit will not only be hard to find, but incredibly expensive. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Logistics hiring slowed in May amid shifts in retail sector. Gatik’s self-driving trucks to haul Georgia-Pacific goods to Sam’s Clubs. That’s a tough break for the industry.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Körber acquires enVista’s omni-channel and global freight audit and payment services. percent year on year in June, driven by double-digit surges in New York/New Jersey, Houston, and Savannah, Georgia. But are the Jetsons just a few centuries before their time?

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This Week in Logistics News (November 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Freight rates to stay high into 2022. According to Lee Klaskow, senior freight transportation and logistics analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, “the survey data shows what has likely become the tightest trucking market in a generation and looks poised to keep supporting spot rates into 2022.

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STORD Relocates HQ to Atlanta’s Technology Square Across from Georgia Tech Campus, Adding 50+ More Jobs in 2019

Stord

(May 15) -- STORD®, the pioneer of Networked Distribution, next-generation warehousing and distribution for modern shippers, today announced the relocation of its headquarters to Atlanta’s historic Biltmore Hotel, located directly across from Midtown’s Technology Square, a multi-block part of the Georgia Institute of Technology campus.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

Given low inventories and dwindling spare capacity, the oil market cannot afford large supply disruptions,” said UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo in a Reuters article. Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode.

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2023 Truckload Freight Market Report

BR Williams Supply Chain Management

We would like to share some insights on the general economy and freight market specifically with you: our customers, employees, business partners and community. While many economists warned of the inherent uncertainties of a market dependent upon new variables with very little historical precedent, few predicted the freight recession of 2022.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. Most online shoppers assume that items they return go back into regular inventory, to be sold again at full price.