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Containerized shipping joins modern financial world with CME futures

Freightos

The cost of importing a 40’ container from China to the United States West Coast grew 1,000% from $1,800 in 2019 to over $20,000 in September 2021 according to our Freightos Baltic Index (FBX). We refined our data, limiting it to actual pricing used by logistics service providers to ship containers, to ensure validity.

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How is the Logistics Economy Holding Up?

Logistics Viewpoints

Global Manufacturing PMI Global Trade as a Barometer Clearly domestic business activity is much larger than international trade. But cross-border trade is an important part of the global economy and much of this trade is in physical goods that must be stored, shipped, transported, and eventually consumed. Source: J.P.

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Overcoming Last Mile Hurdles with Luke Denny

The Logistics of Logistics

About FRAYT FRAYT is a last-mile on-demand delivery and logistics technology company that offers businesses professional, reliable on-demand shipping through an intuitive web platform, API, and mobile app. FRAYT has over 13,000 drivers in over 50 markets across the United States and is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Outside-in Process Q&A

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, in manufacturing, the shift in focus is away from OEE to focus on first pass yield and schedule adherence.) Their goal is clear–stabilize the blood supply in the United States. They implemented a simple planning technology with an outside-in channel-centric model (Ship to model definition).

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Lingering Port Congestion with Paul Brashier

The Logistics of Logistics

Paul Brashier and Joe Lynch discuss lingering port congestion and other issues causing shipping delays. Joining ITS Logistics in 2015, Brashier created and elevated the drayage and intermodal division to #11 in the United States to over $300 million in revenue. Tusk save Shippers 40% or more on small parcel shipping.

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The China Container Risk in Global Supply Chain and Foreign Trade

NC State SCRC

In our diacussions, he described a report he recently wrote on his Assessment of the People’s Republic of China’s Control of Container and intermodal Chassis Manufacturing , released in March. One of the speakers at this meeting was Commissioner Carl Bentzel from the Federal Maritime Commission.

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Plastic Pallets for Export and International Shipping!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The requirements for plastic pallets for international shipping are quite different from domestic shipping. Hence, these standards affect the quality of the export shipping pallets. The ISPM-15 requires all wooden pallets, which are shipped internationally, to meet certain requirements, standards, and specifications.