Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 30, 2021
This acquisition builds on the Panasonic/Blue Yonder strategic relationship, established in January 2019 with a partnership, followed by the creation of a joint venture company in Japan in November 2019. According to the American Trucking Association (ATA), almost 75 percent of all freight is transported by truck.
Freightos
JULY 26, 2018
Not even B2B is spared from these changing expectations (which is why we at Freightos launched an online freight marketplace ). While freight industry executives likely sighed with relief when an update of Amazon’s logistics.amazon.com page on June 28th turned out to be nothing more than a franchise model for courier delivery services.
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Enterra Insights
JULY 3, 2018
For congested metropolitan areas such as Seattle, the focus is actually on the ‘final 50 feet’ of those shipments.”[3] The study also found that clearing security accounted for 12% of total delivery time, while riding the freight elevator and looking for tenants’ locations accounted for 61% of overall time.”
Supply Chain Matters
MARCH 4, 2022
Last week Supply Chain Matters alerted readers to a potentially major cyberattack incident involving a top tier third-party logistics services and global freight forwarding services provider. The impact is believed to have impacted the automaker’s output of upwards of 13,000 vehicles.
Logistics Bureau
APRIL 2, 2020
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*.
Freightera
APRIL 28, 2020
BM: For society, the Physical Internet (PI) enables order-of-magnitude improvements in the efficiency, sustainability, security, trustability and resilience of supply chains, logistics, and freight transportation, all around the world, within each company and across industries. Europe has been aware and active since 2010.
ToolsGroup
JANUARY 6, 2022
Pre pandemic we were importing the majority of our inventory from East Asia, in particular China and Japan. We then opened a distribution center in Seattle to use their ports up there instead of the ports in Long Beach and Los Angeles, which are extremely backed up. Lesson #2: Finding solutions in warehouses and distribution centers.
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