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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As of January 1, 2022, it was taking a company an average of 73 days to deliver goods to truck or rail carriers after booking with an ocean carrier and completing the cross-ocean journey, according to E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index. In fact, global freight rates have increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 24-28, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Another crazy Friday morning, now with the kids out of school, so let’s go straight to this week’s news: JDA Announces Major Enhancements to Workforce Mobility, All-Channel Commerce Solutions. HighJump Software Enhances HighJump Warehouse Advantage Express Offering to Meet Increased Demand in SMB Marketplace.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. . The Freight Game of Thrones. The Maersk Shift: Where it started.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

Merchants Fleet to purchase 18,000 BrightDrop Electric Vehicles. The UN Conference on Trade and Development released a report that states “ the current surge in container freight rates, if sustained, could increase global import price levels by 11% and consumer price levels by 1.5% SVT Robotics Raises $25 Million in Funding.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

FourKites , a provider of real-time transportation visibility solutions, has a big data set around transportation. Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode. Map of Natural Gas Pipelines into Europe.

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Top 10 Transportation Challenges and Solutions Identified in Research

SCMDOJO

This article explores challenges identified in a research paper by McKinnon (2006) focusing on vehicle utilization and efficiency in the freight industry [1]. We’ll delve into each challenge and explore potential solutions: 1. Biofuels: Sustainable biofuels can be a cleaner alternative to traditional fuels.