Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Some companies expect to cut ocean-freight rates by half or more, which in turn could allow retailers to slow or stop price increases for goods. 9, according to Xeneta, a Norway-based transportation data firm, reflecting lower freight demand as retailers cut orders and consumer spending continues to decline.

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Freight companies are eventually going to face severe challenges finding drivers to get your shipments where you want them when you want them there. Throughout the supply chain everyone has focused on efficiency, but they’ve overlooked the drivers,” says Dave Kodadek. On the surface, this sounds like a problem for carriers.

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SCM Research

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Logistics clusters play an increasingly important part in logistics & supply chain management. First, they are self-reinforcing in that logistics clusters use the high volumes of freight they generate to capture economies of scope and scale and reduce costs while improving service quality.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 21, 2023

Metropolitan Bostonians take a lot of pride in the marathon as a major part of Patriots Day celebrations across Massachusetts. For Bollore a deal would mean cutting ties with its biggest business while offering cash-rich CMA CGM a chance to bolster its bid to offer end-to-end transportation services and supply chain management.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 12, 2025

policies, like OSRA 2022 and strategic efforts to move supply chains from China, are significantly reshaping the ocean shipping industry. Maritime Modernization: Policy Driven Changes in Ocean Shipping”, Joe Lynch and Lauren M. Beagen , the Founder of Squall Strategies and The Maritime Professor, discuss how recent U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

store operations by 9 percent over the past year, slashing hundreds of millions of dollars of goods from their balance sheets and suggesting space is opening up in their jammed supply chains. They include Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state.

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 24, 2013

This post will be published in the fall 2013 issue of MIT CTL’s online newsletter Supply Chain Frontiers. These offerings include various professional courses, a PhD program, and the flagship MIT Zaragoza Master in Logistics & Supply Chain Management (ZLOG) full-time program. Subscribe to Frontiers here.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2017

In the meantime, here’s this week’s supply chain and logistics news: Amazon Plans Air Cargo Service for Chinese Customers (WSJ – sub. warehouses from Chinese merchants selling on its site—taking on a role it previously left to global freight-transportation companies.” Stay tuned for more details in the weeks ahead.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Robinson Director of Research and Market Intelligence: The truck driver shortage is top of mind for many as supply chain disruptions continue, port backlogs persist, and the gap between inventory supply and sales demand widens. A note from Steve Raetz, C.H. employed by an establishment that engages in truck transportation.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 19, 2020

As we move into the back half of May, the freight market is starting to show signs of an expedited rebound. . Th ese conditions have caused a more favorable freight environment. That is e specially the case for outbound freight in southern states and California where produce season is in full swing. . Logistics? ? .

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Technology column reflects a number of significant recent announcements that depict an ongoing active cycle of tech developments. Supply Chain Matters will feature more in-depth commentary on this development at in a subsequent update.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

As supply chain and transportation visibility is a hot topic for Logistics Managers and Directors, 3rd party logistics providers , who adopt this type of technology, are surely to reap the rewards of highly satisfied customers. He later co-founded the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With peak shipping season just around the corner, the logistics industry is looking forward to a smoother supply chain than previous years have provided. Looks for Savings in Freight Broker Contracts. After Eighty Years of Business, Family-Owned Colonial Freight Systems Announces Shut Down. Cash-Strapped U.P.S.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As the logistics industry continues to recover from pandemic-era supply chain disruptions, shippers are adjusting quickly to the expectations of a new normal. Falling ocean rates and volatile fuel costs have logistics professionals across the supply chain searching for innovative efficiency solutions throughout their operations.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2020

Produce season transportation can have an impact on your freight, even if you do not ship grains, fruits, or vegetables. Knowing these timelines is crucial to supply chain planning. But knowing the general breakdown of crop production, state by state, can help your supply chain roll with the punches. Massachusetts.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The AGNE website states that while most of its business is in the six New England States (New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island), it has expanded to upstate New York as well. “As On the tailwinds of COVID-19, we needed additional support to maintain our growing and evolving supply chain.

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Freight Plus

AUGUST 14, 2020

Today is going to be a fun one, sitting next to me is someone who in no way knows anything about freight, logistics, transportation or any of that. In fact it is one of our supply chain under 30. I am originally from Bridgewater Massachusetts, I am a rising sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Freight Plus

AUGUST 14, 2020

Today is going to be a fun one, sitting next to me is someone who in no way knows anything about freight, logistics, transportation or any of that. In fact it is one of our supply chain under 30. I am originally from Bridgewater Massachusetts, I am a rising sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 10, 2018

If your freight gets rejected by carriers, this probably means extra work and additional costs because you have to make alterations and go deeper into your route guide to get your freight shipped. Many aspects of supply chains, business processes, and policies can influence the attractiveness of truckload shipments.

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EMERGE App

JULY 11, 2018

It offers a finely tuned supply chain, with experienced suppliers, that will design, prototype, build and ship products at a fraction of the time it takes elsewhere. The agent act as your supplier and supply chain manager. You have essentially outsourced your entire supply chain to them. Where Do I Start?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 17, 2016

Today’s Google self-driving car is not far removed from the vehicles that competed in the DARPA Challenge in 2007, according to Sertac Karaman, Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Karaman believes that self-drive vehicles will gain traction first in more pedestrian settings.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Logistics is one component of the overall supply chain and is impacted by supply chain changes. At the same time, an effective logistics strategy can improve supply chain management and overall supply chain performance. The benefit today is there are many options in logistics to analyze.

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MIT Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It’s difficult to picture the challenges of delivering freight in densely populated megacities without firsthand experience of navigating these population centers. Since 1982, São Paulo’s local government has been implementing and modifying various public policies to control the movement of freight traffic in targeted areas within the city.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2021

In Massachusetts, the state is rolling out the Vax Express this week, which is a partnership between the MBTA and private health startup CIC Health. Starbucks facing supply chain shortages. The coffeehouse chain is having issues with such items as cups, coffee syrups, cake pops, cup stoppers, and mocha flavoring.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Lauren is maritime industry expert & lawyer who specializes in translating FMC regulations and breaking down supply chain silos. Beagen and Joe Lynch discuss big changes at the port brought on by the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA 2022). About Lauren Beagen. About The Maritime Professor. About The Maritime Professor.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 22, 2021

” Supply Chains and Sustainability As noted above, when Earth Day began, it was viewed as a protest against a century and a half of industrial development. 3] More often than not, when companies look to do better, they look to their supply chains. ” But: decarbonizing supply chains is hard.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2023

Starting next week, Amazon will start actively recruiting existing small businesses in 23 states including Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, and Washington. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Stord

APRIL 26, 2022

Here’s the obvious: supply chains are f*cked. Unfortunately, not all supply chain strategies are created equal. What trends are we seeing in refortifying supply chains and what do we predict will be most successful? And others are much more popular, but their impact and efficacy are low. Two popular trends?

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 28, 2014

The supplies are needed by doctors in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus, and the holdup highlights a worrying gap in the humanitarian supply chain. UPS collected the pallets on August 18 for Air Freight Consolidated service. This might appear to be a routine shipment delay, but it is not.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 12, 2020

Currently, this has not made a substantial impact on the freight market, but we are seeing signs that the industry is beginning to recover. Additionally, according to Freight Waves, “outbound tender rejections have increased week-over-week for the first time since the OTRI peaked at 19.25% on March 28.”. Southeast Logistics.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This points to an ongoing trend, Armstrong notes, "for companies to outsource logistics functions to 3PLs in order to control costs and increase supply chain efficiency." CEVA Logistics provides both freight management and contract logistics services for a range of customers across all sectors. Ryder Supply Chain Solutions.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 5, 2020

To effectively track each state’s progress in reopening and how freight is impacted, we will publish a market update for the coming weeks as the country eases out of lockdowns. . Increases in volumes started climbing this week steadily but still down 10-15% year-over-year according to Freight Waves’ Sonar indexes. .

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Beagen has extensive experience in oceanborne commerce and maritime law, with specific emphasis on maritime transportation, Shipping Act issues, supply chain management, international antitrust law, and port and terminal operations. The number of ships waiting to enter the biggest U.S. Squall Strategies Website.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

For those of us in Massachusetts, with the polar vortex bringing below freezing temperatures, this last part is rather difficult. Warehouse hiring data shows how supply chains flexed up for peak. Similarly, in the United States, government officials continue to ask people to practice social distancing and to restrict travel.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 2, 2022

Last March, the Biden Administration announced “the launch of Freight Logistics Optimization Works (FLOW), an information sharing initiative to pilot key freight information exchange between parts of the goods movement supply chain.”[1] Data-sharing and Supply Chain Operations. ”[2].

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 24, 2018

A common theme is that they are ready to relocate supply chains if the cost of importing Chinese goods becomes prohibitive. One is rearranging our supply chain. Earnings reporting season is underway, and analysts are eager to hear from executives about how an escalating trade war between the U.S. 18 earnings call.

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