Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 4, 2023

For example, even during continued market disruptions from the COVID pandemic and the war against Ukraine, the Group stuck to its digitalization strategy and invested significantly in digitalization of business processes and forward-looking technologies. With the guiding principle of ‘For the better.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Scenarios allow planners to ask all kinds of what-if questions to help determine the best course of action under a variety of future outcomes.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The supply chains of FTSE 100 companies emitted 3 billion tons of CO2 last year, shows research by supply chain experts INVERTO, a subsidiary of Boston Consulting Group. While some sectors will of course take much longer to get there, their progress will undoubtedly quicken over time.”

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

million tons of cargo. The war in Ukraine, the sanctions against Russia and the energy crisis greatly changed the energy landscape and flows in Europe, which translated into strong growth in bulk cargo. First, of course, 2022 was the year of the merger and therefore a historic year. This affected throughput, which was down 0.7%

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

During a normal Olympics, millions of spectators flock to venues to watch over 300 events unfold over the course of two-plus weeks. The kick-off to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan is just two weeks away, after being postponed last summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 21, 2019

For example, BLG Group and STS Logistic have announced plans to jointly operate and develop Auto Terminal Slask in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland. . Of course, this had a negative influence on carriers’ overall performance and planning. Whatever the case, I would say Poland’s exports will remain largely intra-EU,” Schemoul comments.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is a blog by one of our affiliate partners, Global Vision Group , a Federal Maritime Commission licensed Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC) and Ocean Freight Forwarder (OFF). At one point, the steamship lines owned the chassis and oversaw their distribution at the ports and inland container yards.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 29, 2018

CTM, which is part of Convertible Concepts Corporation (CCC), has a patented design for car carrying trailers that convert to flatbeds (or a combination of the two) to carry other cargo.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 16, 2018

As more consumers continue to buy groceries online, it has the potential to drive up the demand for roughly 35 million square-feet of United States-based cold storage space moving from retail stores to warehouses and distribution centers over the course of the next seven years. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. About the Author.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The mix between international and domestic may shift, however, as freight that has been warehoused on the West Coast is distributed inland,” she said. “Of Of course, trade policy has become a wild card these days and can cause unpredictable impacts.”. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. About the Author. Contact Jeff Berman.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

industrial vacancy rates for warehouses and distribution centers fell to a new all-time low at 5.0% We have been gradually seeing this shift quarter-over-quarter through the course of 2017. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. Customs & Border Patrol is essential to your cargo clearing customs. About the Author.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 1, 2018

By loading the cargo into a pod inside a low-pressure ‘hyperloop’ tube that passes via Columbus, Ohio, Virgin Hyperloop One reckons it can move freight along the 490-mile (785km) route in just 47 minutes – and for around the same cost as trucking it. But if the visionaries at Virgin Hyperloop One have their way, that will soon change.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Automation is already well established in many distribution centres around the world, but for most, it is limited to workflow automation managed by increasingly advanced warehouse management systems. 2018 Update: Warehouse Robotics. End-of-year Update: Autonomous Goods Vehicles. 2018 Update: Logistics Technology as a Service.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 5, 2018

Meanwhile, the IHL Group , a global research and advisory firm for the retail and hospitality industries, maintains that a more concentrated focus on reverse logistics is simply another way to save money. The more increasingly common course today, however, is to outsource some, if not all, of the reverse process to a 3PL partner.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 9, 2021

The most famous shortage, of course, was the toilet paper shortage, which was really more about a shift in usage and panic buying than production. Amazon is turning malls into distribution centers. Between 2016 and 2019, Amazon converted around 25 shopping malls into distribution centers.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Therefore, NRAs do not require a signature or actual assent in any manner of the NRA other than the booking of cargo. warehouse distribution companies with the objective of participating and fulfilling this niche. 3. Additionally, neither NSAs nor NRAs require filing with the FMC or publishing in tariffs.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 6, 2018

Vehicles are transferred to truck again out of the ports, with last mile distribution all by truck.” The move to rail and ocean has resulted in an improvement in quality because it removes several handover stages that road hauliers made when distribution over China’s vast distances was exclusively handled by truck.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 27, 2018

Before things would go from a port to a distribution center to a store, and customers would make purchases at the store. And now it goes from port to distribution center to fulfillment center and then to the customer through some form of last mile delivery. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. billion of the $185.7 billion U.S.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 29, 2018

FBA Onsite is interesting from a delivery and distribution on a few different levels, according to Jerry Hempstead, president of Hempstead Consulting, in a recent interview. “It’s Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. Customs & Border Patrol is essential to your cargo clearing customs. About the Author. Contact Jeff Berman.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Therefore, NRAs do not require a signature or actual assent in any manner of the NRA other than the booking of cargo. warehouse distribution companies with the objective of participating and fulfilling this niche. 3. Additionally, neither NSAs nor NRAs require filing with the FMC or publishing in tariffs.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2019

Groupe PSA, for example, has recently confirmed that it plans to begin electric engine assembly in the Trnava plant in Slovakia. “We This has resulted in new cargo flows and we’re not always able to create paired transport. Vehicle electrification, in particular, seems important for the region.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

One of the UK’s biggest port operators, GBA Group, says that Brexit dominated planning discussions with its OEM customers through last year. That activity includes a new vehicle preparation centre for BMW and the expansion of vehicle handling space for VW Group in the Humber. Uncertain relations.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Darren Prokop, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): As in the academic world in general, there is a trend to online course delivery. In one logistics class, we turn the classroom into a distribution center for a period, and play a simulation game. My courses change from year to year based on industry events and trends.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

Strong results for air freight, container shipping and export orders in particular suggest that, while the trade recovery may moderate in due course, it will likely continue in the coming months and remain above trend,” the report says. Similar bottlenecks at inland points threaten to slow the movement of cargo and choke off growth.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2018

As with most things in life, change is a constant in automotive logistics, but in finished vehicle distribution that doesn’t seem to hold as true. Their usage is limited to one unique purpose, whereas general cargo is flexible and provides more opportunities of transport,” he says. But change could be just around the corner.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 16, 2018

What has been an even more immediate challenge from a logistics point of view is the stress on production and distribution, including longer lead times resulting from the introduction of the new tests, and the need to find additional storage space for vehicles awaiting certification.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

www.interbusinessgroup.com Interbusiness Group is a UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 certified leader in the manufacture and distribution of INTERCURE® accelerators, vulcanizing agents and curing agents for special elastomers. distributes throughout North America. and a network of globally positioned independent distributors.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 7, 2018

Of course, TMS still needs good analytics and planning logic, especially when it comes to what Clark calls “deconstructing” truckloads into less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments to see if breaking orders into LTL moves makes sense for both service level and costs. Distributed Order Management (DOM) Evolves. Blockchain Meets Supply Chain.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 5, 2018

Of course, TMS still needs good analytics and planning logic, especially when it comes to what Clark calls “deconstructing” truckloads into less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments to see if breaking orders into LTL moves makes sense for both service level and costs. Blockchain meets supply chain.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 3, 2018

Meanwhile, Geely’s stake in Malaysian carmaker Proton may lead to further production and distribution of Volvo models in South-East Asia, for example. When you combine that with visibility of the entire global vehicle pipeline, you get a good picture of the distribution chain. The rail is just an alternative for particular cargo flows.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But what if, despite huge progress – dozens of digitized carriers representing over half of air cargo capacity, hundreds of thousands of real-time bookings, more and more solutions built around it – what if…we admitted that today, right now, it’s not really digital. Or, rather, only a small percentage is. Both are key.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

But, of course, with so many cases in such a vastly populated nation, the risk of a new variant emerging to start the whole cycle over again cannot be underestimated. At the same time, MSC has boosted its cargo capacity massively through a shipbuilding program that will add over 100 new vessels to its already colossal fleet.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Demand for rail transport is growing faster than service providers can keep up with, according to Siegfried Jung, head of planning and steering vehicle dispatch and transport at BMW Group. ” – Siegfried Jung, BMW Group. Of course, Jung is not the only one battling such difficulties. “We

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 2, 2018

Should platooning be restricted to groups of trucks from the same manufacturer, using identical platooning technology, or is multi-brand platooning, with a mix of trucks brands using disparate platooning technologies, the best way forward? Or Level Two platooning in which lateral coordination is added in the form of steering?

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Shipchain

JUNE 27, 2019

How many tokens are yet to be distributed under lock-up period? Second, effectively all committed tokens are about 85% distributed and will be sent out over the coming months. I’d love for it to be sooner rather than later of course, but I can’t make any guarantees quite yet. How many customers are already signed up?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

Of course, just a few weeks ago the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) launched an investigation into potentially unfair demurrage and detention charges that are being levied against cargo owners, often for events beyond their control. Even some large companies struggle with distribution challenges and excessive transportation costs.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. . The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle.

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