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Awakening the Sleeping Giant - Crude by Rail

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I am short on time as I am heading to the Alternative Fuels Conference ( ACT 2013 ). I wanted to give the light of day to this article on the growth of Crude by Rail (which I mentioned as a trend back here ). This has huge impact on the movement of crude and will likely impact the movement of retail goods.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16-19, 2018)

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Back in 2013, I wrote the following under the banner of “Siri Comes to Enterprise Apps”: Instead of manually executing tasks with a mouse or touch screen, why not speak them? Sticker Snafu Has Millions in Imports Stuck in Argentina’s Warehouses (Bloomberg). OOIDA Leading Fight Against House Bills to Allow Younger Truck Drivers (HDT).

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This Week in Logistics News (May 8-12, 2017)

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I remember meeting Karl Siebrecht, co-founder and CEO of FLEXE , a few years ago at the CSCMP Annual Conference not long after the company had launched. According to a Bloomberg article : Iron Mountain signed on with Flexe two years ago to sell extra space in its 1,000 facilities in 90 markets. And with that, have a happy weekend!

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Gap closing between top three most recognizable 3PLs | Full Stories – Caption as the Content | Full

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. Related Articles. The mood at the 3PL association’s annual conference was buoyant based on truckload demand, but concerns about brokers’ digital strategies floated. In 2013, Menlo placed seventh on the list, while XPO didn’t break the top 20. PSA, CrimsonLogic unveil platform for shippers, 3PLs.

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Trucking Rates Looking to Increase: The Driving Factors & What You Can Do About It

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Further, as JOC.com wrote in a recent article about the Wall Street Journal an alysis: At the moment, shippers at the NASSTRAC conference said capacity is more balanced than a year ago, in the aftermath of the disruptive polar vortex cycle of winter storms. told the conference. . told the conference.

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The Emerging Role for Warehouse Drones in the Supply Chain

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Five years is a lifetime in the world of technology, but maybe you remember how Jeff Bezos turned the supply chain world upside down in December 2013. Faster than you can say “same day delivery,” drones were the buzzword du jour at supply chain conferences, much like RFID following the infamous Walmart mandate about a decade earlier.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 10-14, 2017)

Talking Logistics

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal : Transfix has raised a total of $78.5 million since its founding in 2013. One of my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 was that traditional software user interfaces would start migrating toward chatbots and virtual assistants.