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Navigating the Future: The Rise of Electronic Bill of Lading (eBL)

MTS Logistics

The eBL, a digital version of the traditional bill of lading, is reshaping the way businesses manage and streamline their shipping documentation. The bill of lading is a crucial document in the shipping industry, serving as a receipt of goods, a contract of carriage, and a document of title. What is a Bill of Lading (BOL)?

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Freight Forwarding Basics with Miles Varghese

The Logistics of Logistics

Miles Varghese is the co-founder and CEO of Cargologik , an all-in-one transportation logistics collaboration software developed for freight forwarders. The platform provides automated tracking, document management, alerts to create and add structure to your business, and communication for you and your client. About Miles Varghese.

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LTL in a Post-Yellow World with Curtis Garrett

The Logistics of Logistics

Curtis documents and shares challenges, progress, and goals in a collaborative and community driven way. For carriers, it presents an opportunity to expand their market share and increase their profitability. He is a huge believer of working in public.

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Kimberly-Clark’s Digital Transformation of Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

Weisenberger’s presentation particularly interesting was that while Ms. Weisenberger said the project team looked at some of the documentation steps and asked ‘why?’ Why does a driver have to get out of the truck and go into the shipping office and sign a shipping document? This was an online event. What made Ms.

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How to Expand Your Business with Cross-Border Shipping to Mexico

Blue Grace Logistics

Optimizing Your Supply Chain A robust supply chain is the backbone of any successful business operation, and cross-border shipping to Mexico presents an opportunity to enhance your supply chain efficiency.

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The State of The Freight : Unique Challenges and Novel Solutions

Shipping and Freight Resource

2020 threw at us a potent concoction of virulent market conditions including a pandemic, skyrocketing freight rates, reduced availability of space and equipment on container ships, unprecedented demand and port congestions along with the usual documentation and visibility issues that we have been facing for years. Take the survey.

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Industry bodies call for digitalisation to be accelerated in maritime sector

Shipping and Freight Resource

It is understood that the policy document will be submitted to the IMO as a proposal for further discussion and dissemination. The full statement about the need for digitalisation in the maritime sector to be accelerated can be downloaded here.