Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 28, 2021

I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. Transportation visibility is clearly not only for trucks.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 7, 2023

Food Logistics also caters to professionals in the logistics sector, including transportation, warehousing, distribution, software, and technology. It covers topics related to food and beverage manufacturing, producing, processing, retailing, distributing, restaurant and food service, warehousing, transportation, and storage.

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GoShip Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Updated: 12/03/2023 Logistics and the transportation of goods are very diverse and complex industries. Shippers rely on overseas shipping, air transportation, and ground delivery to move freight. Therefore, it involves many shipping modes or different modes of transportation and ways of shipping goods.

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Freightos

MARCH 27, 2024

More Resources Home March 27, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. According to Vespucci Maritime, the port handled 1.1

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 22, 2022

In his role Peter leads The Journal of Commerce, the historic New York City maritime newspaper founded in 1827, today a team of specialized business journalists focused on the end-to-end international shipping supply chain including shipping, ports, airfreight, trucking, rail and home delivery, addressed to the needs of shippers.

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Now, That's Logistics

MARCH 23, 2021

With a worldwide vaccine distribution effort underway, the global pandemic still impacting most regions of the world, and supply chain disruptions persisting, the transportation environment remained unpredictable as we moved into 2021. Ocean and Air Trends. Cassidy discusses the U.S.

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CH Robinson Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2021

Robinson experts provided in-depth analysis of current supply and demand trends, our updated forecast, and the impact of global import volumes on North American freight transportation. The carrier community has been aggressive in attracting drivers in the following ways: Increased compensation.

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FreightWaves SONAR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Understanding ocean shipping trends is vital to understanding the freight flows in domestic transportation markets. Customs in port markets with increases (and decreases) in both truckload and intermodal volumes in the markets. The easiest identifier is linking rises (and falls) in import volumes that are clearing U.S.

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Now, That's Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Under “normal” circumstances, the world’s ocean carriers work stealthily behind the scenes, transporting goods from country to country with little or no fanfare or attention. Credit the container ships that, depending on which month is in question, stacked up outside of US ports like Los Angeles and Long Beach in the hundreds.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

Congestion at ports has certainly played a role in these disruptions. Last October, over 100 ships, including 70 container ships, were waiting at anchor or in drift zones to unload at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. While conditions have eased in North America, port congestion has gotten much worse in China.

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Dedola Global Logistics

APRIL 13, 2022

Does Your Commodity Optimize Air Freight Transportation? We offer end-to-end logistics services, including ocean, air, road, rail, warehousing, and distribution. Businesses are looking for alternatives to congested ocean shipping networks. Part 1 of a 2 Part Blog Series). billion last year. Cosmetics are Always in Demand.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

He is the former chairman of the board of directors for the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA). He also chairs the committee for and has co-authored each edition of, TIA’s “Carrier Selection Framework” which provides guidance on the selection of safe motor carriers. Jeff’s LinkedIn.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The use of standardized steel shipping containers, or intermodal containers, started late in the 1940s as commercial shipping operators started employing them for ocean carrier, truck, and rail transport. The post Savings Through Container Transport Planning appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Artificial intelligence has been applied to just about every supply chain application imaginable, including transportation management and execution, demand planning, supply chain planning, warehouse management, and order management. Container-ship logjams off US ports finally easing as imports fall.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Maersk is one of the largest, and possibly the most advanced, ocean carriers. The LA/LongBeach ports have been a problem area for air pollution and sustainabiolity for many years. There’s no rail connection directly to the ports, and even so, … Continue reading →

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Billions of venture capital dollars of investment are being poured into companies that can integrate real-time visibility data with transportation to provide a more informed ETA for shippers and carriers. The rise of visibility solutions at the container level is helping to drive the transportation execution market to new heights.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2024

waters in recent years Ocean freight rates expected to jump after Iran seizes containership Walmart Canada is launching a national pilot program for customers to recycle their reusable shopping bags. Some of the robots zip around the hulking facility transporting pallets of merchandise fresh off delivery trucks.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Barge operators in Europe are calling for greater cooperation between ocean carriers, port terminals, and barge operators to make sure the goods flow smoothly to and from ships, port terminals and barges. And what is this ‘synchro-modality’? Barges, like containerships, … Continue reading →

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Dedola Global Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Cargo transportation complications are not just frustrating for business owners; they can be highly costly in terms of customer dissatisfaction, increased operational costs, inventory shortages, and several other problems. These issues can worsen ocean freight, as shipping vessels have long transit times and are vulnerable to delays.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 15, 2020

Now the entire freight transportation industry, across air, ocean, road, and rail sectors, is awash with disrupted expectations and has retreated into survival mode. Air Freight Transportation Trends 2020. How Have the Carriers Responded? Ocean Freight Transportation Trends 2020. sulphur content.

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Now, That's Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The ocean freight sector is facing a particularly high amount of uncertainty right now thanks to ongoing container shortages, port congestion and lack of capacity. At the end of August, for example, 44 container ships were stuck outside of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in California. Covering the Demand.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

JULY 4, 2022

Cargo vessels looking to offload foreign-made products and profit off West Coast ports must provide opportunities for American exports in return. Our legislation would put American exports at the front of the line at our ports to support American businesses and workers. What is American Port Access Privileges Act.??

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Now, That's Logistics

JUNE 29, 2022

In March, the US Senate unanimously voted in favor of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA), which was passed by the US House in December. The first major update of US international ocean-shipping laws in over two decades, OSRA is coming to be as the nation continues to deal with port bottlenecks that are negatively impacting supply chains.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 15, 2022

The Ocean Shipping Bill is intended to improve oversight of ocean shipping by the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), the U.S. agency that oversees ocean shipping, and increase industry transparency. Rising ocean rates over the past 24 months have been a huge factor in the rising cost of goods in the United States. .

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MAY 12, 2021

The report and figures indicate that maritime supply chain woes are worsening, with little indication that carriers are addressing the industry’s serious capacity issues. Data from Port Klang (Malaysia), Rotterdam, and Athens all showed endemic congestion, posting rollover rates of 64%, 54%, and 59% respectively. About project44.

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MTS Logistics

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The major ocean carriers temporarily halted shipments through the Canal and started routing ships around the Cape of Good Hope. As a result, Maersk, MSC, CMA-CGM, Hapag Lloyd, Evergreen, COSCO, OOCL, Wan Hai, and oil giant BP are among the carriers that have suspended service.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the past weeks, ocean freight rates have risen as much as $10,000 per 40-foot container, as container ships seeking to avoid the attacks embarked on long detours around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, diverting more than $200 billion of cargo away from the critical trade artery. Global trade declined by 1.3

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 15, 2024

Hundreds of vessels have diverted to longer routes, resulting in delivery delays, higher transportation costs and economic wreckage for local communities. But after its six-week maiden voyage testing the green energy tech, the Pyxis Ocean MC Shipping Kamsarmax vessel apparently had many more trips ahead of it. tons of fuel each day.

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 29, 2024

On early Tuesday morning, March 24th, the container ship Dali left the Port of Baltimore and was bound for Sri Lanka. The vessel lost power close to 1:30 AM and the vessel drifted into the bridge’s main center support columns, impacting them, and causing the bridge to collapse, closing the port for the foreseeable future.

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Trinity Logistics

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

COULD WE LOSE CARRIER CAPACITY….WITHOUT As ocean carriers are mindful of events in the Red Sea , combined with an easing of labor tensions at the West Coast ports, freight that in prior years was diverted to the East Coast is now heading back to the left coast of our country. WITHOUT LOSING ACTUAL CAPACITY?

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 2, 2024

Simply put, Project logistics is the transportation processes of cargo with characteristics such as large, heavy, bulky, out-of-gauge, unusually shaped, high-value and critical items. The transformers were to move from the manufacturer in Italy, trucked to the port of Genoa and shipped to the U.S. Port of Baltimore.

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CH Robinson Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2021

Supply chain disruptions that consist of port and terminal congestion, shipping delays due to high cargo volumes, lack of labor due to Covid-19 and limited space have caused a myriad of challenges for shippers. Let’s start with an update on the current air and ocean market situation as we head into fall. Ocean Shipping.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Here at Freightos, our vision is to digitalize international freight–air and ocean. But so far air freight and ocean freight have gone in different directions. Air waybills are over 80% digitized (according to IATA), but ocean bills of lading are struggling to get to 2%. Not one ocean carrier has a full set of APIs available.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In this edition of “SONAR Indices & Insights,” the SONAR team describes how freight market participants can view a leading indicator of incoming ocean shipments before they leave the port of origin. This is possible using the new Ocean TEUs indices found in SONAR, the freight forecasting platform from FreightWaves. .

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Kanban Logistics

MARCH 29, 2024

All of us at Kanban Logistics are deeply saddened by this week’s tragic accident at the Port of Baltimore. According to CNBC , in the wake of the catastrophic bridge collapse at the Port of Baltimore, ocean carriers are shifting responsibilities onto U.S. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by the event.

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FreightWaves SONAR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Shippers are facing supply chain challenges from all sides – sourcing, manufacturing, global shipping and domestic transportation networks. Domestic transportation networks receive a great deal of attention, but shippers are having to make expensive decisions before products even arrive on U.S. Chart: FreightWaves SONAR.

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Now, That's Logistics

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Founded in 1536 by conquistador Juan de Saavedra, who named it for his birthplace in Spain, Valparaíso, Chile lies on the south side of a broad, open bay of the Pacific Ocean, 84 miles northwest of the national capital of Santiago. The port’s main exports are copper, wine, frozen food and fruit. An Important Urban Center.

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