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Strategic cargo theft is a rapidly growing concern

Freight Waves

Scott Cornell, Vice President of Transportation at Travelers Insurance , sat down with FreightWaves’ Timothy Dooner on the May 19 th episode of What the Truck?!? Less common, but potentially more devastating, cluster theft involves criminals establishing seemingly legitimate trucking operations by purchasing MC numbers.

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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

Supply Chain Digest

Operations began in 1973 with 14 aircraft, and a package hub in Memphis. Deregulation undertaken by Jimmy Carter meant that the federal government no longer had to approve routes and prices for interstate air transportation. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article!

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Kuehne + Nagel Inc.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Unseasonably cold weather in Spain slowed down the growing of peppers, leading to Morrisons limiting purchases to two per customer. households each year, a new report has found. billion cumulative square feet of flat, sunny rooftop space — or about twice the area of Memphis, Tenn., Waitrose has also been hit by supply problems.