247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

It’s true that those terms are too often discussed in theoretical platitudes in conference sessions and white papers. But, this month we’re happy to share a case study about a shipper that’s leveraging a third-party logistics (3PL) provider partnership to manage massive growth and create a scalable, global supply chain network.

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The Logistics Academy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Over the course of 2016, real revenue and volume growth in the air and sea freight forwarding markets was remarkably similar globally, but this disguises significant differences across important countries and regions, say analysts who keep a close eye on the market. DHL Supply Chain & Global Forwarding. Toll Group.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 22, 2018

Speaking on a recent conference call hosted by investment firm Stifel, Costello said that there are a few drivers of the current solid freight activity, including consumer spending, construction activity, manufacturing activity, and inventory levels throughout the supply chain. “[L]ooking Jeff Berman, Group News Editor.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] The first batch of containers was accepted in May 2016, with the final batch coming off the assembly line in June 2016, well ahead of the contracted delivery date. 18] Beaumont, D.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 13, 2018

vehicles last year, up almost 9% on 2016, and the forecast for 2020 is for 5m units, according to figures presented at this year’s Automotive Logistics Mexico conference. vehicles were exported last year, up 12% on 2016. SSA signed a concession to operate the terminal back in 2016. Mexico made 3.8m Logistics island.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 16, 2018

That is a pretty good number, especially when considering back in January 2016, which is really not all that long ago, the ratio was checking in a 1.41. But things started to weaken in 2015 and 2016 and into early 2017, due to higher inventories. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. Thus, companies overshot the inventory cycle.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

Container shipping volumes in December of 2017 were 5 percent higher than in the same month of 2016, noted Yin Ming, deputy secretary general of the Shanghai International Shipping Institute and professor at Shanghai Maritime University. He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif.,

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 8, 2018

billion in 2016; and the USDOT estimates that freight volumes will rise 45% by 2045. And it cited a 2016 USDOT study which addressed the impact of increasing current truck size and weight limits, making the determination that there is not a need for federal policy changes on truck size and weights. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

One of my first clients back in 1999 was Descartes Systems Group. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends). A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference 2019. Where is Descartes today? Descartes, in short, is alive and well. Takeaways from Evolution 2019.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The company was founded by a small group of former APL executives and staff who spent their time at the ocean carrier devising the most efficient means to move containers from the ships, on and off the piers, and into the nation’s commerce. 15, 2017 Apparel Importers Trade and Transportation Conference in New York. “A

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 24, 2018

of them driving around it, making it the second largest in China for vehicle numbers behind Beijing – and it was to Chengdu that delegates headed last week for this year’s Automotive Logistics China conference. Lithium-ion batteries, in particular, have significant supply chain risks. The city of Chengdu has 4.5m

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 20, 2018

The finished vehicle logistics sector needs to find better ways to communicate and collaborate to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, delegates at this year’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference in California were told in March. Marcus Williams reports.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

In 2017, the Fraunhofer institute spun off a supply chain start-up, doks.innovation, in Dortmund which now provides drone and sensor technology for the logistics sector and has contracts with a range of companies in the automotive industry. Matthias Haberstroh, director of supply chain management division, ZF.

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 20, 2018

The finished vehicle logistics sector needs to find better ways to communicate and collaborate to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, delegates at this year’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference in California were told in March. Marcus Williams reports.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 16, 2018

I know from Toyota and many other examples that it is crucial [to ensure] that our supply chain relations are flourishing by avoiding the introduction of new frictions,” he said. Around 85% of finished vehicles from Burnaston are exported, most of them to Europe. “I As an industry, there are around 2,000 trucks per day through Dover.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2017

Comparing the headlines (September 7, 2016 and May 12, 2017). It echoes the title of my post from last September: “ The Day a Cyber Attack Brings the World’s Supply Chains to a Halt.”. (I The WannaCry cyber attack is another warning for supply chain executives to stop being complacent. What can you do?

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 15, 2018

At the press conference in Paris in January, Nadal said the company was opening up to new industrial sectors including aviation, manufacturing, energy, life sciences and healthcare, among others. “The At the end of 2016, we realised that to come out of the PSA matrix was not easy,” says Nadal. “We

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2018

When Audi opened its assembly plant in Mexico in September 2016, it was a milestone achievement on a number of levels. Audi’s Mexican factory is the first in the Volkswagen Group to implement RFID technology for the complete material and container flow. We have standards for the whole VW Group across the world,” says Koltai.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 10, 2018

Earlier this month, LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman caught up with Greg Gantt president and CEO of national less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) at the National Shippers Strategic Transportation Council (NASSTRAC) conference in Orlando, Fla. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. About the Author.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

West Coast longshore labor strike in late 2014 and early 2015, or in the aftermath of liner carrier Hanjin Shipping declaring bankruptcy in August 2016. Cargo owners and trucking companies are normally given a certain number of free days to pick up containers of imported goods from ports after they have been unloaded from ships.

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Freightera

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In 2016, the science publication Nature noted that air pollution from ocean freight shipping, specifically nitrous oxides, sulfur oxides and particulate matter, was causing the premature deaths of 60,000 people worldwide. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 8.3 percent of the children in the U.S. have asthma.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 18, 2018

Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, stopped by in August 2016. In June 2016, the Lagos State government signed a memorandum of understanding with Dubai Holdings LLC, owners of Smart City (Dubai) LLC, “to develop sustainable, smart, globally connected knowledge-based communities that drive a knowledge economy.”

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 2, 2018

In April 2016, a fleet of trucks – some of which had driven almost 2,000km – arrived in the Dutch port of Maasvlakte and made modest headlines around the world. The key thing is that regulators appear to be broadly supportive, seeing the obvious benefits that platooning can confer.” . The reason?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

the supply chain. The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' annual State of Logistics report attempts to offer just such a map -- accompanied by some timely warnings. We saw that starting to turn around in 2016 and continued to accelerate into 2017," he notes. The research, done by A.T.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 16, 2018

percent this year — the best since 2010, Behravesh told the recent TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif., percent in 2016 and 6.9 Transportation executives appearing at the TPM conference agreed. Global GDP chalked up growth of 3.2 percent in 2017 and is on track to approach 3.5 sponsored by IHS Markit. In the U.S.,

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