Resilinc

JANUARY 10, 2022

Northeast see less snow and rain than usual as La Niña causes storms to dump more precipitation over the Great Lakes, Ohio and Tennessee River valleys? Will drought persist in California, as La Niña shifts storm tracks northward? Will the U.S. How much will La Niña increase precipitation in Asia?

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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. Peak produce shipping season refers to the time period when the largest volume of fruits and vegetables are harvested and subsequently shipped to markets across the US, impacting truck capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2023

The manufacturer’s private fleet has deployed a fleet of Einride EVs to haul freight between GE Appliances’ inbound warehouses and manufacturing facilities in Kentucky, Georgia, and Tennessee. In Tennessee, some of the EVs are also humanless Pods that use Einride’s artificial intelligence technology to haul goods.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 17, 2025

FedEx installed four robotic arms at its Memphis, Tennessee, global package hub in 2020 to assist small package sorting. Automation is a rapidly growing feature of modern warehouses because of the productivity they provide in picking, packing and sorting shipments.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MARCH 5, 2020

According to a paper published by the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee, only 25% of a typical company’s end-to-end supply chain is being assessed in any way for risk. Yet, without a crisis situation to motivate action, most companies place risk management at the bottom of the priority scale.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Fulfillment by Amazon or Amazon FBA lets sellers in the Amazon marketplace take advantage of Amazon’s giant logistics operation to ship their orders. FBA items are eligible for Amazon Prime shipping and Amazon handles your angry customers (which Amazon considers its customers, not yours).

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 1, 2020

According to a paper published by the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee, only 25% of a typical company’s end-to-end supply chain is being assessed in any way for risk. Interruption risk management strategies, including mapping and monitoring suppliers, should be applied when developing an informed inventory plan.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

“Customers will buy five items and return one, but when they package the one item, they use the same box the five items were originally shipped in,” explains Ryan Kelly, vice president of e-commerce and alliance marketing at FedEx. Then, you need to get your packages ready and attach a prepaid shipping label to them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2023

After years of financial struggles, reports of Yellow preparing for bankruptcy emerged last week as the Nashville, Tennessee-based trucker saw customers leave in large numbers. The center, known as YXU1, will see employees work alongside robotics technology to pick, pack and ship up to 750,000 items a day.

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EMERGE App

JULY 3, 2018

So, as a busy exporter, you’re either shipping your Made in USA goods outside of the States or count American buyers among your biggest customers outside of your country. Landed costs are expenses that need to be paid when you ship products from one country to the doorstep of the customer in another country. trillion in 2011 !

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Bed Bath & Beyond @BedBathBeyond Bed Bath & Beyond has discovered a way to save millions of dollars on freight over the next few years, thanks to a new 755,000 square-foot distribution facility slated to open in the fall of 2019. The new facility will allow the company to offer two-day shipping to most (about 90%) of the U.S.

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DAT Solutions

DECEMBER 10, 2018

That means a lot of freight delivery schedules are going to slip. Over the weekend, Winter Storm Diego blanketed Charlotte, Raleigh and many miles of highway in North Carolina, extending east to Tennessee and north to Virginia. Storms freeze freight flows. It’s snowing at the wrong time and in all the wrong places.

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Freight Center

JANUARY 1, 2019

Several factors can impact the cost of freight shipping, including your shipment’s weight, dimensions and any special handling requirements, such as temperature or shape. Additionally, you may notice that the cost of your shipment changes depending on which state you are shipping to or from.

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Freight Center

JANUARY 1, 2019

Several factors can impact the cost of freight shipping, including your shipment’s weight, dimensions and any special handling requirements, such as temperature or shape. Additionally, you may notice that the cost of your shipment changes depending on which state you are shipping to or from.

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Freight Center

JANUARY 1, 2019

Several factors can impact the cost of freight shipping, including your shipment’s weight, dimensions and any special handling requirements, such as temperature or shape. Additionally, you may notice that the cost of your shipment changes depending on which state you are shipping to or from.

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TMC

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Still, some freight managers understandably find it difficult to accept that paying for an automated version of such a routine operation saves money and improves customer service. Now let’s consider the two remaining Tennessee orders. So complicated, in fact, that doing the calculations manually often results in costly errors.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

Natural gas and oil expenses contribute to extreme cost disparities in shipping from Asia to the U.S., for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. Transportation and freight costs are reduced. Premium freight capacity improves. Ford returned another 1,800 jobs to Tennessee to make Cadillac SRXs and build engines.

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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. Produce shipping is showing signs of strengthening and should begin building activity for the remainder of the month before leveling off in June. Regional Logistics Market Updates. Status: Open.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The baseline volume is the customer’s average weekly volume from June 5 through July 2 for the applicable shipping service. Beginning earlier this week, Food Lion expanded its Food Lion To Go grocery pick-up service to 15 more stores across the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 24, 2025

On its first night of service in 1973, FedEx Express delivered 186 packages from Memphis, Tennessee, to 25 cities with 14 Dassault Falcon business jets. In the mid-1970s, Emery Air Freight, an airfreight forwarder, began leasing its own cargo planes for domestic freight transport.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 12, 2024

Industry supply chains will need to weigh the risk of and migration of another shipping and logistics disruption. Thus far in 2024, a majority of auto workers within Volkswagen’s Tennessee production facility have voted to be represented by the UAW in labor negotiations. Contract negotiations officially began in February.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Most shockingly, the article also recounted an incident in a Tennessee warehouse where a worker died. I won’t deny that it gets hot in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the summer – it does. We don’t count on shipping a high volume of orders at razor-thin margins to make a profit. Climate-controlled warehouses.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 15, 2013

Old Dominion also provide ocean freight service including full container load (FCL) and less-than-container load (LCL) service offerings. Old Dominion also provides household moving services, white glove services, and trade show shipping as part of their expedited division. LTL Carrier Profile: Old Dominion History.

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Freight Center

AUGUST 20, 2019

When FreightCenter National Account Manager and history buff Sam Jones received a call from a customer who wanted to ship a stagecoach, he was right in his comfort zone. Sam is proof that at FeightCenter, we not only handle your shipping, we keep it in perspective and appreciate its significance to you and your family or business.

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2025

Federal Maritime Commission in accordance with the Shipping Act and the regulations of the Commission set forth in 46 CFR Part 500. RULE 5 Payment of Freight Charges 5.1 Such policy has been certified to the U.S. RULE 2 Application of Rates and Charges 2.1 Rates apply on either a per container or weight/measurement basis.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

economy relies on a vast network of infrastructure from roads and bridges to freight rail and ports to electrical grids and internet provision. 3] Those states are: Utah, Nevada, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, Indiana, and Texas. The future of the U.S. economy depends on it.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 10, 2025

The monthly report from Cass and partner Tim Denoyer of ACT Research is based on data from the billions of dollars of freight bills that Cass pays for its shipper clients. in 2024, and so far is trending toward another decline in 2025, Cass says, as carriers navigate the lousy freight environment. Supply Chain Digest Says.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 23, 2025

He is considered a giant of the modern freight transportation industry, along with Malcolm McLean, who invented the ocean shipping container. Born in Mississippi and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Smith entered Yale College in 1962 to pursue a degree in economics. Smith founded FedEx Express Corp.

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EFT

JUNE 16, 2025

Maritime agency warns shipping industry over rising Middle East tensions Increased tensions in the Middle East may lead to an escalation in military activity that could impact shipping in critical waterways, Britain's maritime agency said on Wednesday. Oceans Conference in the French city of Nice hopes to change that.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Click here to send us your comments That according to a recent blog post by the maritime analysts at Drewry, which noted that “More than five years have passed since the huge shipping disruptions, damaging port congestion, and cost spikes of the Covid period, but one feature has remained: freight rate volatility.”

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 13, 2025

The US thus spent about $131 billion more in parcel shipping than it did in rail transport last year - a bit more than a delta of $127.4 Parcel shipping costs were estimated at $229.7 The US thus spent about $131 billion more in parcel shipping than it did in rail transport last year - a bit more than a delta of $127.4

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 16, 2025

By far the best model I have come across to achieve this is the Vested Outsourcing model developed by researchers from the University of Tennessee. Peter Sales, Freight sales Posted on: May, 08 2020 From a sales prospective: Our company only uses small trucking companies and gives them the business directly. Likely I'm off base?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 27, 2025

By far the best model I have come across to achieve this is the Vested Outsourcing model developed by researchers from the University of Tennessee. Peter Sales, Freight sales Posted on: May, 08 2020 From a sales prospective: Our company only uses small trucking companies and gives them the business directly. Likely I'm off base?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 17, 2025

By far the best model I have come across to achieve this is the Vested Outsourcing model developed by researchers from the University of Tennessee. Peter Sales, Freight sales Posted on: May, 08 2020 From a sales prospective: Our company only uses small trucking companies and gives them the business directly. Likely I'm off base?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 6, 2025

By far the best model I have come across to achieve this is the Vested Outsourcing model developed by researchers from the University of Tennessee. Peter Sales, Freight sales Posted on: May, 08 2020 From a sales prospective: Our company only uses small trucking companies and gives them the business directly. Likely I'm off base?

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

By far the best model I have come across to achieve this is the Vested Outsourcing model developed by researchers from the University of Tennessee. Peter Sales, Freight sales Posted on: May, 08 2020 From a sales prospective: Our company only uses small trucking companies and gives them the business directly. Likely I'm off base?

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