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2021 Logistics Outlook: LTL Industry Trends

GlobalTranz

Many LTL industry trends, such as capacity constraints , rising rates, and changing consumer buying patterns, will continue through 2021. As e-commerce surged, LTL, truckload, and small parcel capacity tightened, which lead to record rates in some lanes. Let’s look at top LTL industry trends for 2021.

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3PL Warehousing Trends for 2022

Camelot 3PL Software

As we chug along into the first quarter of 2022, the trends we observed last year continue to play out. The impacts of these trends can be significant. Shipping Capacity is Tight. Capacity is stagnant. The adage Speed, Quality, Cost – Pick two is an everyday exercise. It’s everywhere. Integrated Systems.

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Build Resilience in Volatile Freight Environments

FreightWaves SONAR

Shippers drive prices higher when they bid against one another for available capacity in tight markets. Carriers drive prices lower, bidding for business when capacity is readily available. Starting in roughly 2017, the US freight market has had two periods of extended capacity tightness and two extended periods of looseness.

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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

The pursuit of ever higher efficiency and speed have dominated transformation initiatives for more than forty years, driven in large part by the assumption that raw materials, commodities, warehouse space, transportation capacity and labor will be plentiful and immediately available at stable and often declining cost.

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Walking Ramp in Air

20Cube Logistics

New trends come up in the markets in a very rapid succession and sometimes multiple times in a season. Manufacturers need to cater to the customers in accordance with the trends and for that reason the supply chain needs to be extremely agile and resilient.

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Flexibility in the Face of Uncertainty

Freightos

Most recently, the recent disruptions in the Red Sea that saw ocean freight rates from China to Europe by over 190% and saw transit times lengthen, sea-air services offered a strategic advantage for logistics professionals able to remain agile, by watching trends and jumping at opportunities to ensure a resilient supply chain.

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Leverage freight data for confident demand planning

FreightWaves SONAR

Will a delayed produce harvest in Florida and Southern California tighten refrigerated trucking capacity in midsummer? Are the past few weeks of sales data an anomaly or part of a larger trend also experienced by competitors and other segments in the economy? But look at the first quarter of 2022, particularly the month of March.