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Freight In The Year Of The Monkey

Freightos

Freight In The Year Of The Monkey. China’s role in world trade is so large that even small changes can have a broad impact on the international freight industry. While China’s domestic transport infrastructure is ranked high on global indices (e.g. China-US freight is getting Amazon’ed.

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China Exports Rebound Even as Western Markets Face Lockdown

Logistics Bureau

The huge build-up of containers at China’s docks has created a major ocean freight imbalance, with a shortage of cargo in US and European ports and a shortfall in boxes needed by Western exporters to ship products to other parts of the world. Ocean Freight. Air Freight. Ocean Freight. Measuring the Imbalances*.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 27 – May 1, 2015)

Talking Logistics

New Capabilities from JDA Create Transportation Resiliency – Enabling Shippers to Balance Service and Cost Pressures. Latest Versions of SAP® Transportation Management, SAP Extended Warehouse Management and SAP Event Management Now Available. UPS Freight Adds LNG Tractors. Con-way Inc. Reports 2015 First-Quarter Results.

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Logistics Execs Split on Outcome of NAFTA Talks

Material Handling & Logistics

The survey of more than 500 global logistics executives is part of the 2018 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, an annual snapshot of industry sentiment and ranking of the world’s 50 leading emerging markets by size, infrastructure, transport connections and business climate. . In the 50 country rankings, Brazil slips two spots to No.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 25-29, 2019)

Talking Logistics

A New Market Seeks to Draw Freight Bets (WSJ – sub. A New Market Seeks to Draw Freight Bets (WSJ – sub. For Power Tools Sold In Iran. For Power Tools Sold In Iran. But as history has shown in the transportation industry, overcoming “the way we’ve always done things” is always the biggest obstacle.

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Flatbed Rates and Ratios at Record Highs

DAT Solutions

pullout from the Iran nuclear deal could push prices even higher. Auto sales have dipped after hitting their peak in the fall of 2017, but they're still a major source of flatbed demand to transport raw materials and parts, as well as finished goods. Oil production generally ramps up when prices hit the $45- to $50-per-barrel mark.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

The US Men’s National Team is in Group B with England, Iran, and Wales, and will play its first game on November 21 against Wales. They also have faced tense geopolitical environments, unreliable and expensive ­global shipping services and supply chain delays exacerbated by port congestion and even inland transportation issues.