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This Week in Logistics News (July 10-14, 2017)

Talking Logistics

CX North America Releases Freight Vision Mobile App. Maybe their supplier relationship management handbook was written by Fidel Castro? I haven’t been briefed by Transfix, but based on the comment above, it seems like the company is quickly evolving into a managed transportation services provider.

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Collaborative Logistics’ Role in the Emergence of the Physical Internet

Material Handling & Logistics

Zach Zacharia , an associate professor of supply chain management at Lehigh University, is part of a team developing a handbook on the physical Internet. Before they made the breakthrough in 1955, shippers had no choice but to pay about $16,000 to transport a single consignment. In many ways, they are forerunners to it.