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Breakbulk Americas with Jeff Tucker

The Logistics of Logistics

Jeff is the CEO of Tucker Company Worldwide , the oldest privately-held freight brokerage in North America, specializing in notoriously complicated freight, like temperature-controlled, oversized, and high-value, high-security shipments. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, the world’s hub for oil and gas.

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Winning Supply Chain Procurement Strategies for 2022

Ware2Go

Should you change your supply chain procurement strategy in light of continuing supply chain disruptions? The 2021 holiday shopping season was characterized by high freight rates, elevated lead times , and over-crowded warehouses. Supply chain procurement strategies had long been favoring Just in Time procurement.

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U.S. Freight Logistics Industry Recession Continues with Some Hopeful Signs

Supply Chain Matters

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry. Freight rate reportedly fell 37 percent. The LMI has now declined 6.7

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This Week in Logistics News (August 28 – September 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Freight Companies Scramble to Reroute Goods in Wake of Harvey (WSJ – sub. Port Houston Container Terminals to Resume Operations Friday (WSJ – sub. LevaData to Transform Strategic Sourcing for Global Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders. UPS, FedEx resume operations in some parts of storm-battered Texas (Reuters).

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Expert Research, What Happened with IMO 2020 Fuel Prices?

Freight Plus

Now some of this is certainly attributable to lower volumes of freight coming out of China related to the timing of Lunar New Year and, of course, Coronavirus-which continues to remain a significant issue and is not only driving down exports from China but also driving down imports to China. IF380 in Houston, TX is at $375/MT. .

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Expert Research, What Happened with IMO 2020 Fuel Prices?

Freight Plus

Now some of this is certainly attributable to lower volumes of freight coming out of China related to the timing of Lunar New Year and, of course, Coronavirus-which continues to remain a significant issue and is not only driving down exports from China but also driving down imports to China. IF380 in Houston, TX is at $375/MT. .

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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. This significantly optimizes the procurement process.