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Achieving Maturity in Risk Management Takes Years

Logistics Viewpoints

Then the company worked with their Italian lawyers to get a special industry designation that allowed them to legally keep working. Those components get trucked by the Vietnamese Railways, loaded, and then transported to the Haiphong port, where a freight forwarder ensures the container is loaded on an Ocean carrier.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Marten Transport Ltd. Shippers are under enormous pressure to cut transportation costs and seem not to be satisfied with the massive fuel surcharge reductions racked up over the past year and a half.”. Analysts at Stifel Inc. downgraded the stocks of four trucking companies earlier this week — USA Truck Inc., Hub Group Inc.,

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This Week in Logistics News (February 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

The company’s North American truckload volumes increased eight percent in the quarter, and its average truckload rate per mile charged to customers (excluding fuel) increased about 1 percent in Q4 2012 compared to Q4 2011, while its truckload transportation costs increased approximately two percent (excluding fuel). million, up 18.2

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Reefer rates hit lull between holidays

DAT Solutions

Right now, retail and e-commerce are driving trends in the transportation industry, which has lifted van rates, but prices fell on a lot of the major reefer lanes. Fresno to Baltimore fell 29¢ at $2.41/mile. Reefer activity picked up after Thanksgiving, but not nearly as much as dry van freight.