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Role of Digital Logistics Intermediaries

Logistics Business Magazine

The market segment includes mainly freight forwarders, shipping lines, exporters, importers and customs brokers; each one of them making use of different services, as their roles in the global supply chain are different. Exchange: legal transfer and presentation of original electronic title documents. Digital Logistics.

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Why Containerised Freight Shipping is Daunting for SMEs

Logistics Bureau

However, freight shipping is the one activity that presents significant barriers to overseas-market entry, as you may have discovered if your business is starting to look across international borders for its next step in expansion. There are many rules, regulations, and requirements to comply with when shipping containerised freight.

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Data Everywhere: AI in Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

For example, predicting arrival times for loads has traditionally been a pain point for both shippers and carriers. This is just one example. For example, instead of asking carriers to bid on a load tender, AI can present said tender – and a pricing offer – to a select number of carriers.

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Challenges of Peak Season Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

With Black Friday, Christmas and Boxing Day sales just around the corner and unforeseen circumstances and delays, the potential for overwhelm is ever-present. For example, there’s no reason for trucks to travel hundreds of empty miles when a similar truck, equipped for the task, is more than likely unloading nearby.

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Decarbonise UK Freight Transport Sector

Logistics Business Magazine

Operating over three years, the UK Research & Innovation funded DUKFT Network, a collection of over forty academic, policy and industry organisation, undertook six research projects and two stakeholder events exploring how to mobilise investment that can enable UK freight decarbonisation whilst managing risk and maximising opportunity.

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The New World Economy of E-Commerce

Now, That's Logistics

Zulily’s business model revolves around product “events,” a fancy word for sales, perhaps 100 of them a day, that offer special prices and that typically last 72 hours. In any case, Zulily owns the freight processes involved in getting products to end users. Complex Logistics Scenarios. Robinson Worldwide.

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Berliner Luft & See hosted by FreightHub: Digitization in Logistics – do we oversleep the transition?

Forto

Last Thursday, we hosted our first innovation and networking event “Berliner Luft & See”. Right now there seem to be quite some funds, previously focused on nuclear energy for example (“Kernenergie-Fond”, 20Bn €). He presented a recent study by McKinsey and Google that confirmed the lack of digitization.

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