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Freight Forwarding Basics with Miles Varghese

The Logistics of Logistics

Freight Forwarding Basics with Miles Varghese. Miles Varghese and Joe Lynch review and discuss freight forwarding basics. A freight forwarder is an agent in the supply chain whose objective is to organize a shipment, acting as the intermediary between the exporter or importer and transportation companies.

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3 Reasons Why the Post-COVID Era Will Help Freight Forwarders Increase Market Share

MTS Logistics

This was a real stress test for all importers/exporters’ supply chains, and its main providers – ocean carriers, freight forwarders, truckers, and warehouses. During this period, the importance of working with a freight forwarder has again re-proven itself. In the U.S., the Inventory to Sales Ratio went up to 1.68

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Document Extraction Bot

RPA Labs

Whether your company is a domestic freight broker, an international freight forwarder , an ocean carrier , or a trucking fleet, you probably rely on your employees to do data entry, document processing, shipment tracking, and invoicing. Reminding parties to submit documents before the alarms sound. The biggest di?erence

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Logistics with Freight Forwarders

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

A freight forwarder mainly acts to manage the transits of international products so that once they have been unloaded, they make the journey to their final destination. The video presents an example explaining how a freight forwarder works, the services they offer in order to help logistics clients to manage merchandise.

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Pitfalls of digitalisation in shipping and freight

Shipping and Freight Resource

Digitisation, Digitalisation, Digital Transformation are some buzz words that have recently taken the shipping and freight industry by storm. Let’s take a quick look at what these terms mean and what it is all about. Digitization may be defined as the transition from an analog format to a digital format.

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Cooperative Logistics Network now offering e-learning

Logistics Business Magazine

The Cooperative Logistics Network – an international alliance of more than 320 hand-picked freight forwarders – has launched its Online Logistics Academy. The future of the freight forwarding sector is constantly evolving. These training programmes can be completed at the students’ suitable pace.

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BIFA award winners crowned

Logistics Business Magazine

There were many outstanding entries for the 2021 Awards, which were presented at the Brewery in London, despite a year beset by multiple operational difficulties and uncertainties caused by the pandemic and EU Exit.