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The State of the Trucking Market in 2021

GlobalTranz

Port backlogs, cargo limitations on container ships, and a lack of available equipment and port facility staffing.? Such congestion naturally leads to bottlenecks in planning drayage and eventual increases in the total cost of shipping, not to mention an added strain on trucking as the bottlenecks grow.? transportation metrics ?that

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030. Logistics and real-estate specialists say many large retailers are demanding extra room to store excess inventories, driving up costs for smaller companies and in some cases driving them out of spaces.

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Freight Visibility and Control: Introducing the Freightos Baltic Index (FBX)

Freightos

Today, the go-to metric for that question is typically Standard & Poor’s 500, the Nikkei, or the Dow Jones Industrial Average (a shockingly poor indicator , if you look closer). Nearly every industry has created on-demand metrics to gauge market performance, hedge risks, and make decisions accordingly. The driver?

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Supply Chain Market Report – July 2022

Elementum

Real Estate companies Compass and Redfin cut 10% and 8% of their workforces, respectively. Suppliers will continue to ship orders in an effort to get the inventory off their books. Corporate layoffs are starting to make headlines. Meta froze hiring. Peloton cut 3000 employees.

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The Best is Yet to Come

3PL Insights

In a market where industrial real estate is at record-low vacancy rates; we were able to secure more than 700,000 square feet of additional warehousing space to support new and existing Evans customers. I am grateful for the employees, customers, and partners that have made 2022 possible. Our hard work is paying off.

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Dynamic Warehousing Quarterly Pricing Report

FLEXE

It’s an innovative, yet simple concept, that due to its broad-reaching network and data-rich SaaS technology, organically produces a unique dataset that provide insights into important trends in the warehousing, logistics and industrial real estate markets. Dynamic warehouse space is acquired for a variety of business purposes.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

It will allow for the automation of more complex warehousing tasks, such as unloading shipping containers and picking packets or individual e-commerce orders. Last-mile distribution demand is transforming urban real estate in various ways, including: ? Click here to read the full story. Printer-friendly version. Media Type.