247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The mood at the 3PL association’s annual conference was buoyant based on truckload demand, but concerns about brokers’ digital strategies floated. percent in 2017 to $184.3 It also lists operational strengths and procurement survey results. percent in 2017 to $184.3 Users that viewed this also viewed.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 20, 2018

It is a topic of daily discussion at every industry trade show and conference, while also getting a ton of attention in the form of commentary or data being issued fairly frequently. A good example of that was apparent in an October 2017 survey of 1,500 motor carriers conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI).

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

Indeed, digitalisation is now a buzzword in supply chain circles, as logistics innovators look for ways to improve operating platforms. Last year, the malicious NotPetya virus infiltrated the operating systems of shipping icons Fed-Ex and Maersk after an accounting software upgrade, costing AP Moller-Maersk an estimated $300m.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 7, 2018

To have two ro-ro vessels importing and exporting vehicles simultaneously at the port is an important milestone for our cargo operations and demonstrates our growing ability to accommodate multiple large-capacity vessels,” said Captain John Murray, CEO of Port Canaveral.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The timing for such a conference could not have been better, say industry analysts, as transpacific rates have been volatile and unsteady during the peak season for a variety of reasons related to carrier consolidation and pending trade conflicts. Eleven freight forwarders participated in the pilot, said spokesmen. Subscribe today.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 16, 2019

When the Tax and Jobs Act legislation was signed into law in late 2017, expectations for the benefits it could bring for corporations were fairly high. At the NASSTRAC conference in May 2018, the nation’s top trucking lobbyist said that, at that time, the tax reform bill had already seen $3.8 viewed it as negative.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Not long ago, robots added yet another level of automation by making it possible to get work done even more efficiently and by providing information about their operations. An operator can control them wirelessly or through wired connections. Further advances have made it possible for robots to move and work in a variety of places.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 5, 2019

Data from Dynamar, a Dutch maritime intelligence and consulting firm, shows that container traffic through Lomé grew threefold over the five years from 2013 to 2017. Lomé processed 311,500 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) in 2013, but more than 1,193,800 TEU in 2017. Low global ranking. Lomé looks to the future.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Coinciding with the upswing in the world economy two years ago, global seaborne trade is doing well, note analysts for the Geneva-based United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). This was an improvement of 4% over the first nine months of 2017.”

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management’s (CSCMP) annual EDGE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Penske is once again a major conference sponsor. In 2017, revenues reached $175 billion, and the U.S. market is expected to grow at about 5.5 The Significance of E-Commerce.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Europe’s finished vehicle sector faces several big challenges in coming months, as speakers at the recent ECG conference in Germany made clear. At last week’s annual conference of the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG), held in Mainz, Germany, speakers discussed what they were doing to tackle these problems.

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Freightos

JULY 11, 2017

Alibaba’s Jack Ma recently urged 3,000 US small businesses to do just that at a conference in Detroit, and he is making good on his vision to take down trade barriers that are holding smaller businesses back from buying and selling globally. Speaking in Detroit in June 2017, Jack Ma encouraged US sellers to increase their sales abroad.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

We saw that starting to turn around in 2016 and continued to accelerate into 2017," he notes. trillion in 2017, up 6.2% Parcel delivery volumes jumped 7% to $99 billion in 2017. Many shippers had been lulled into a very soft market, costs were coming down and it was a beneficial fuel market. Postal Service, UPS and FedEx.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Every year, in our annual MH&L Salary Survey , we ask readers to identify the biggest challenge they face in their jobs, and every year they tell us the same thing: finding, developing and retaining talent. For example, the NIST demonstration shows an assembly operation. The answer is to replace human operators with machines.

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