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Doing Our Part To Help Logistics Companies Adapt to COVID-19

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Land travel restrictions in Asia extended Chinese New Year, dropping ocean freight demand, which, just weeks later, spiked when the shutdown ended. And, of course, then the potential recession started to tamper demand. With WebCargo Sky, forwarders can instantly price air freight shipments from nearly every global airline.

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Freight Innovation and the Lesson from a Dead Remote Control Tech Play

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To some extent, it was global freight in a nutshell. At this point, carriers have their own automation and data under control. This is one of the main raison d’etres for freight forwarders. In a shockingly high number of cases, the root cause is data sharing, not physically lost goods. The Solution.

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Industry Experts Discuss Technology Trends & Solutions for Efficient Ecommerce Logistics – Supply Chain 24/7

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Machine learning can help companies make sense of all the data that can be harvested and provide recommendations on how to respond to likely disruptions or opportunities,” says Vernon. The goal is to take all this data and be instructive with it, which is where machine learning comes in. Digitized Freight Forwarding.

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5 Ways Technology Will Forever Change the Automotive and Transportation Industries

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These three technologies involve connecting cars and trucks to the cloud to gather big data about their state-of-being and actions. Of course, the vehicle didn’t hold as much potential as fossil fuel vehicles and wasn’t widely adopted by the public. Related White Papers & eBooks. Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs).

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The Great Maersk Shift

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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. . Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift.

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TPM24: Key Takeaways on Geopolitics, Technology and Other Drivers of Ocean Freight in 2024

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I was fortunate to be able to attend again this year, and, though I couldn’t sit in on all the sessions or meetings I would’ve liked, here are my key takeaways: Geopolitical challenges, Red Sea especially Geopolitics were, of course, on people’s minds. Nearly 25 years later, he is surprised at how slow that progress has been.