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The Weekly Freight Report for June 30th, 2022

FLS Transport

China blocking all exports of rare earth elements (REEs) to Japan in 2010, plus recovering from supply chain snags due to a pandemic, has the US and other global companies seeking solutions for REE independence. Playing video games qualifies as training for the next step in the freight transportation industry. Check this out.

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If There’s a Manufacturing Skills Gap, How Do We Close It? 4 Ways to Combat the Gap

GlobalTranz

According to US News , fewer than 7 percent of all new jobs added to manufacturing since 2010, and some women working in lower paying positions already have the skills needed to move up the ladder in the industry. Women are also heavily involved in the manufacturing industry when looking at package and filling machine operators.

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The Weekly Freight Report for July 14th, 2022

FLS Transport

Once AB5 is in effect, independent owner-operators and the businesses that utilize them have a lot to consider in a relatively short time. For example, the government offers substantial incentives to those purchasing new zero-emission trucks. So what do drivers and businesses plan to do? Find out here. Find out here. Career Growth.

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Optimizing Rail Freight with Rail Management Services

CLX Logistics

Understanding how a provider can alleviate and eliminate rail transportation issues is vital for ensuring efficient rail freight operations, cost-saving opportunities, and relieving your business from avoidable stressors, hiccups, and pitfalls. However, rail transportation remains one of the safest freight transport methods.

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Linde Producing Hydrogen for in-house Material Flow

Logistics Business Magazine

On Thursday, May 11, the new hydrogen production facility and vehicles were officially put into operation at the Aschaffenburg site. The vehicles do not produce any emissions during operation,” Prokosch emphasizes. A three-minute refueling time corresponds to a comparable charging power of about 480 kW,” he explained.

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What does the Logistics World of the Future look like?

Logistics Business Magazine

If a digital product is good and can answer a need, it will grow fast, he said, giving the example of Zoom, which had 10 million users in 2019, but can boast over 300 million at the time of going to press. Now that autonomous systems can be trained to replicate human movements, they can carry them out, essentially without the downside.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

Did You Know That … Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). By 1973, US, European and Asian container ship operators are carrying 4 million TEUs. Loading and unloading was particularly troublesome. Significance.