GoShip Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The produce shipping season is slowly coming to an end, marking the beginning of the busiest time in freight transportation – peak season. Here are a few useful tips on how to get armed for the busy season as a small business: How to prepare your small business for the peak season? Competitive rates.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JANUARY 21, 2020

Weather events can put a drastic slow down on your operations and unfortunately, it’s practically impossible to predict exactly when these events will happen. Sure, there are seasonal weather events like snow and hurricanes, which gives us a reasonable timeframe in which to expect these types of events.

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Forto

JULY 25, 2018

Below are the 5 tips to guide you on dangerous goods shipping. As far as air freight is concerned, the internationally agreed regulations for transporting dangerous goods are covered by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) International Dangerous Goods Regulations. The classifications as shown in the chart below.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2018

Here are my top 10 tips to boost your Supply Chain performance towards Best in Class. Look at how you are buying freight services and ask yourself two questions. Do you really need so much air freight or express freight? Then 2) Look at how you are paying for that freight. Yes of course there are.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 27, 2015

As the world becomes hyperconnected , the demand for rapid response for concealed freight damage, general freight damage or missing items from shipments has changed. On April 18, 2015, the National Motor Freight Traffic Assocation® has amended the NMFC rules regarding the required time frames for reporting concealed freight damage.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 8, 2021

That insight into how freight logistics and optimization rely on data and understanding the full picture is critical to making the best improvements in supply chain route optimization too. Freight management represents a vital part of market adaptability. And it’s important to know a few best practices to achieve that goal.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 3, 2016

It’s a great time to be in the freight brokering business, and there are plenty of reasons to consider starting your own brokerage now. an increasingly stable and growing industry , and increasing demand for new brokers, you have all the external conditions to become a successful freight broker. What does a freight broker do?

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

This fragmentation, aside from inhibiting technology incursion, has impeded visibility and transparency in freight movement. Stakeholders within the freight industry, be it fleets or traditional brokerages, suffer from siloed operations that do not interact with other functions within the same organization.

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Turvo

MAY 29, 2020

Few events carry the notoriety of black swans, and the COVID-19 pandemic is the most unprecedented and disruptive event to affect supply chains in decades. These tenants can provide an immeasurable source of information that can help your company speed all processes from order processing through freight settlement.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2021

Of course, this also increases costs by needing to pay a two-driver team for every shipment. Unforeseen events have already taken place, like the Wisconsin pharmacist who allegedly ruined a shipment of vaccines under his care. To make those changes during unprecedented events can be near impossible. Monitoring Temperature.

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

2020 has been different from the norm in just about every single way imaginable, so it should come as no surprise that freight is going off the rails. Amazon, of course, has been leading the way in e-commerce sales for the better part of the year as quarantine and lock down restrictions forced many shoppers to go online, rather than in-store.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

This is even more likely thanks to tight capacity , fewer drivers on the road and even refusals to ship freight from full truckload carriers. Shippers need to understand what’s contributing to a higher-than-usual LTL peak season and how to prepare for it to keep freight spend in check. Extra GRI for peak seasons to continue.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 5, 2023

In this post, we’re sharing our top tips for cost reduction in each of these three areas, so let’s get to it, beginning with truck expenditure. The following tips should prove helpful in getting those truck running costs down. You could look for a training organisation that offers train-to-train courses.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It also allows them to communicate proactively with customers in the event of vehicle maintenance issues, heavy traffic, or other conditions that might delay delivery. Meanwhile, in the case of commercial freight, customers might unload their goods much as they do in today’s warehouse receiving operations.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2019

However, I think we may soon stop talking about supply chains as end-to-end sequences of events, because, in many cases, the two ends appear to be joining up. After all, the last few years have been full of talk about integrating supply chains from end-to-end. Happily, though, that’s not something you can expect to change in 2020.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 31, 2019

This blog will be my first writing in logistics at MGEPS at UPV , so as we in this course to talk about logistics in our life and i noticed that many of the ones writes about The logistics in Mercadona and Consum , so i decided to write about the Logistics in Lidl. Warehouse based in Warrington, Cheshire.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The port of Wilmington, for example, and the port of Charleston, just to the south, only recently reopened and resumed intermodal travel for freight. The problem is that port closures can cause some significant delays for general freight transportation, even to areas that aren’t necessarily affected by the storm.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 13, 2018

Is there a system in place to alert management when drivers divert course? Many 3PLs will offer “intermodal” services, but if they don’t have the size and experience to properly manage that freight in-transit, they are essentially handing off responsibility to another party. . Are trucks secured? Is your 3PL BlueGrace?

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Of course, this merely scratches the surface of what a third-party logistics provider can bring to the table. If you’re looking to make your organization grow, regardless of what events the rest of the world has in store, a 3PL can help you reach your goal. Want to Learn More?

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

As we see this year, there are more cars on the road (meaning carriers want that attractive freight), and we are also seeing tight capacity. Don't let the bird not be the star of the show, make sure your freight is ready to go! That’s not just good news for consumers; capacity is opening up for freight carriers.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

APRIL 27, 2020

Carbon emissions, of course, was not the reason the Panama Canal came into existence. As years passed by, new events would cause the idea of an interoceanic canal to shift up to the next level. These dimensions were, of course, applicable to the “old” or “Panamax” locks. pic.twitter.com/3ODD6vuuwZ.

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Blog on Log

APRIL 15, 2007

The solution to reducing freight costs and lag times could lie right at your own docks. Here are 10 tips to maximize your LTL efficiency: 1. Generally, the farther you are from these areas, the more expensive your freight charges will be. The likelihood that your freight will be delayed also increases.

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