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How to Protect Your Freight From Cargo Thieves

GTG Technology Group

5 Tips for Protecting Your Freight Against Cargo Thieves. Protecting freight is one of the responsibilities you have to your clients. Thieves stealing cargo can cause disaster along the supply chain. A few areas with high rates of cargo theft are Los Angeles, New Jersey, New York, Miami, Houston, and Chicago.

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A Gloomy Future for the Port of Los Angeles?

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

In June 2016, the Panama Canal will double its capacity, and this capacity expansion will undoubtedly reshape the freight flows around the globe, including those transiting through the Port of Los Angeles (click here for a past blog related to this subject). Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal. Guillaume Roels.

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The Logistics of Fidget Spinners: Amazon vs Alibaba

Freightos

Amazon has 27 airplanes and 258 supply chain facilities in the United States. Global supply chains responded quickly – over 200,000 spinners were available from Alibaba retailers and upwards of 8,000 sellers on Amazon. The Logistics of Fidget Spinners. How Jack and Jeff Are Reshaping Global Retail.

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: Networked Supply.

Global Trade Management

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. Networked Supply Chains Require Better Visibility. Importers are using multiple sourcing vendors to improve their ability to respond to market demand and opportunities.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. For discount retailers like Burlington, the supply chain is often a competitive advantage — and thus a secret recipe for success.

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Top 15 Biggest 3PLs in the US - 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

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. Privacy Settings. anonymous user.

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Last-Mile Technology Comes of Age

Cathy Roberson

UPS acquires Delivery Solutions UPS entered the same-day delivery space last year by acquiring a same-day delivery crowd-sourced platform, Roadie and on May 31 of this year, UPS acquired Delivery Solutions, a SaaS technology provider. Other tech providers in this space include Bringg and Delivery Solutions. I wear a number of hats these days.