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Linde takes pride in 2021 awards

Logistics Business Magazine

On behalf of the VerkehrsRundschau magazine, an independent market research institute surveyed a representative number of purchasing decision-makers from the transport and logistics sectors about the best-known brands. The competition, which was launched in 2020, is decided via online voting.

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Freight Market Intelligence: Data is crucial, but context is king

Freightos

The article presents findings from a survey conducted across over 200 global supply chain professionals to highlight how the pandemic has increased the need for freight market intelligence and how it continues to be relevant even as supply chain issues resolve. But even since July 2020, much has changed.

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Guest blog: With the Truck Driver Shortage, How Many More Drivers will be Enough?

CH Robinson Logistics

My preferred measure of demand for truck transportation is an index I’ve developed with my colleague Yem Bolumole at the University of Tennessee that uses data from the Census Bureau’s and Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Commodity Flow Survey to calculate implied demand for truck transportation.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

About 11% of carriers have vehicles that use a fuel other than diesel or biodiesel blends, according to a 2016 survey by ATRI. Lately they have upped their game and many have in place ambitious goals for 2020. By 2020 it wants to obtain 30% of its jet fuel to use alternative fuels. FedEx also has ambitious goals.

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Profitably Delivering eCommerce with Consumer-Centric Priorities

Logistics Viewpoints

In my Logistics Viewpoints article in April 2021, Building Profitability with Agility while Digitally Transforming the Supply Chain , I mentioned that we will continue to explore here the concrete steps in the digital journey and examples of determination from the top in addition to logistics operations. The payoff is well worth it.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP. Skills Shortages. skilled production workers. researchers. machinists. scientists. appear to include the following.

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Flatbed Demand and Challenges for Construction and Manufacturing

Trinity Logistics

Let’s take a deeper look into these challenges and present some considerations for how those in the industry can overcome them. percent year-over-year (YOY) from June 2020 to June 2021. Census Bureau’s Small Business Pulse Survey , 59.7 Lumber and plywood jumped 62 percent and steel recorded a 20 percent rise since April 2020.