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MARCH 13, 2023

Girl Scout Cookies Crumble Under Supply Chain Woes Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® News Press Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics For some Girl Scouts and their bake sale fans, it’s shaping up to be another tough cookie season. This year is seeing similar problems.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Demand for Goods and Services Remains High In Florida Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® News Press Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics Shippers’ demand for trucks may bounce back this year according to a Bank of America. What will 2023 bring for the economy of durable goods?

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 20, 2023

Shipper's Guide to Planning Ahead Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® News Press Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - March 20, 2023 Data shows there is a consensus that revenue will increase and inventory levels will build.

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Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 28, 2023

billion in 2022, according to data from the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America, a trade group now part of the Global Private Capital Association. Kearney, which has been tracking nearshoring for a decade, said that 2022 was the first year since 2019 that U.S. That was down from a record $5.6 Kearney Inc.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Logistics Blog®. October 24, 2022. LTL pricing will be “more favorable” to shippers heading into 2023, but for many shippers that may mean LTL rates stay flat or dip only slightly, not by double digits, Blankenship said. I think the LTL carriers will announce modest GRIs [general rate increases]” for 2023, he said.

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JUNE 5, 2023

million trucks headed northbound from Laredo in 2022, with the crossing surpassing the volume of goods received by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach by October. Initially, we’ll target three cities for sales and operational aspects, primarily sales. As the Wall Street Journal reported, 5.5

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Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 24, 2023

Another freight broker taking steps to promote carrier loyalty is RXO, which spun off from less-than-­truckload carrier XPO in November 2022. Seattle-based Convoy ranks No. 54 on the TT100 list of logistics companies. Earlier this year, RXO announced a program to provide rewards and cost savings to its carriers.

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Blue Grace Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Logistics Blog®. Although LTL rates have been rising over the last couple of years, 81% of surveyed companies saw their LTL contract rates increase between 2021 and 2022. of surveyed shippers anticipate further increases between now and 2023, with nearly half of respondents expecting rate increases of 5-9% next year.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2023

in 2022,” the report stated. in 2022,” the report stated. “Nearshoring has the potential to boost the growth of Mexican manufacturing exports to the U.S., from $455 billion today to an estimated $609 billion in the next five years,” according to a June research paper by investment banking firm Morgan Stanley.

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