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2020 Trends in Freight Transportation, and the COVID-19 Impact

Logistics Bureau

When I first began planning this article, the most significant impacts of COVID-19 were primarily limited to Mainland China. 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.

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Freight Cost & Transportation Capacity Outlook for 2021

Now, That's Logistics

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. For shippers, the impact on cargo flows was only worsening as 2020 came to a close.”.

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Editor’s Choice: Dodge Disruption Using Smarter Transportation Management

Logistics Viewpoints

Today’s article is from Open Sky Group and highlights the need for a smarter transportation management system. But have you ever associated it with supply chain life in 2020? And, more often than not, it was a modernized, intelligent approach to transportation management that gave them the critical edge. Dodge ball.

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Horseshoes and LTL with Scooter Sayers

The Logistics of Logistics

Scooter is the President at Sayers Logistics , a boutique LTL-based transportation consultancy that helps 3PLs, shippers, and technology providers to develop best practices, reduce costs, optimize solutions, seize opportunities, and penetrate new markets. Sayers Logistics was founded in 2020 by LTL industry veteran Scooter Sayers.

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Top Logistics and Transportation Trends That Will Shape 2020 and Beyond

Trans Global Auto Logistics

Last year was a great year for the logistics and transportation industry around the world. The introduction of emerging technologies and business processes has restructured the way logistics and transportation has operated, and this trend will likely continue beyond 2020, especially as technological innovation will lead to sustained growth.

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2020 Trends in Freight Transportation, and the COVID-19 Impact

247 Customs Broker

When I first began planning this article, the most significant impacts of COVID-19 were primarily limited to Mainland China. It’s probably fair to say that,… The post 2020 Trends in Freight Transportation, and the COVID-19 Impact appeared first on 24/7 Customs Broker News.

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Land Transport Outlook for the Year Ahead

Now, That's Logistics

million registered trucks traveled a total of 302 billion miles in 2020 and the number of for-hire carriers on file with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration totaled just over 1.1 The post Land Transport Outlook for the Year Ahead appeared first on DB Schenker. In the US, trucks move roughly 72.2% According to the ATA, 38.9