The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Marc is the Co-founder and CEO of Fishtail, a Boston based fintech company that empowers freight forwarders to finance the movement and procurement of goods – for small and medium businesses (SMBs) around the world. Fishtail is venture backed and already servicing and partnering with some of the biggest names in the industry.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 26, 2023

Transport Exchange Group (TEG), a leading UK online freight exchange platform, is helping its members to operate more dynamically and competitively in a highly volatile marketplace with the launch of what it describes as an ‘industry-first’ load pricing data service.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 7, 2022

In the perishables market, freight forwarding relies heavily on Excel spreadsheets, emails, phone calls and other error-prone methods of managing the supply chain. This is especially true in the perishables industry, where items with a short shelf life need to be transported as quickly as possible to stay fresh.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

On March 1st the EU customs safety and security system, ICS2, was launched for the air freight industry. “Air freight forwarders should use this period to ensure that they can provide the airlines with the additional data required,” advises DAKOSY authorized officer Dirk Gladiator.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

About FreightFest 2023 FreightFest 23 , presented by Truck N’ Hustle, is an eagerly anticipated event in the Trucking, Transportation & Logistics industry. The event aims to explore profitable industry niches and provide valuable insights from subject matter experts.

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Freightos

MARCH 19, 2020

While people find it easy to book things like accommodations online, container owners and freight forwarders or shippers looking for available Shipper Owned Containers (SOCs) often still struggle to connect with trusted partners. As freight forwarders, we’re not the only industry that has had to digitize.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 5, 2023

This is accomplished through Axiom-One, a next generation artificial intelligence platform that enables transportation professionals to communicate data-driven insights and recommendations more quickly and easier than ever before.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

shipzero enables transport and logistics companies to create transparency about their emissions data and manage decarbonization throughout the supply chain. The Hamburg-based data platform has received seven-figure growth funding for further product development and internationalization.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 17, 2020

Utilizing fragmented systems limits logistics companies from fully leveraging the data in their systems. Data equals dollars and the 3PLs that best harvest the data (dollars) in their systems will be the most profitable. More viable and up to date data. Opportunities can be missed due to aging and irrelevance of data.

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Trans Global Auto Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Determining the current state of shipping industry news is similar to looking into a Magic 8 Ball – when you shake it and the water settles, the message says, “Future Remains Uncertain.” Shipping Industry News: The Good. The good news is that the shipping industry is doing better than expected.

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RPA Labs

JULY 22, 2021

To maintain a competitive edge in the shipping and logistics industry, businesses must follow a few best practices to improve freight forwarding customer service. Streamline Payment Management by Auto-Auditing Freight Invoices. Freight invoicing involves maintaining the checks and balances of the shipper.

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RPA Labs

JULY 22, 2021

To maintain a competitive edge in the shipping and logistics industry, businesses must follow a few best practices to improve freight forwarding customer service. Streamline Payment Management by Auto-Auditing Freight Invoices. Freight invoicing involves maintaining the checks and balances of the shipper.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 12, 2023

Nevertheless, there is still a lack of transparency in logistics, as data volumes are often insufficiently filtered and processed. The logistics industry and in particular those responsible for air and ocean freight have traditionally struggled with the issue of transparency.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Shell and digital freight forwarding company InstaFreight are partnering to transform the European freight market. This investment and new partnership will help InstaFreight to accelerate its mission to digitise the road freight space and transform the freight market.

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RPA Labs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

According to customer data shared by RPA Labs , Freight Forwarders spend 113 minutes on average processing shipments, and that’s not even including time spent drafting emails to clients, waiting for responses, or digging up documents that have been misfiled or lost. Data Confirmation. Automated Data Entry.

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RPA Labs

JULY 29, 2021

Moreover, automated responses delivered through chatbot functionality can be used to streamline communications addressing a wide range of needs, including interacting around sailing schedules or reviewing track and trace data. Chatbots create a personal conversation through data entered by a customer and interact through advanced APIs.

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RPA Labs

JULY 29, 2021

Moreover, automated responses delivered through chatbot functionality can be used to streamline communications addressing a wide range of needs, including interacting around sailing schedules or reviewing track and trace data. Chatbots create a personal conversation through data entered by a customer and interact through advanced APIs.

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RPA Labs

AUGUST 28, 2020

With the rise of competition and market pressure, it is becoming more difficult to meet the profit margins needed to grow in the freight forwarding industry. Forwarders are facing increased pressure to: Become digital. Interested in becoming a digital Freight Forwarder? Commit less mistakes.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2023

The objective of this guidance is to enable companies to better understand and track their logistics emissions on a granular operational level and seeks to quantify the footprint of end-to-end logistics emissions, from supplier to final customer, with focus on primary data calculations.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 14, 2023

About Transport Topics Since 1935, Transport Topics has been the news leader in trucking and freight transportation. Freight brokerage giant C.H. The Top 100 list and the accompanying sector rankings were produced in collaboration with industry research and consulting firm Armstrong & Associates.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

Container xChange has released a Container LogTech predictions report for 2023, which highlights important global trends that the shipping and supply chain industry will witness in 2023. On the other hand, until there is a balance reached between supply and demand, forwarders will favour short-term contracts until the rates stabilize.

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20Cube Logistics

JULY 9, 2019

Well, with so much complexity, one would certainly require a reliable and transparent source to carry such enormous data and activities. This is where Blockchain is ready to transform the way the supply chain and logistics industry works. How will blockchain impact freight forwarding? Understanding blockchain. 20cube.com.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Transportation and the logistics industry serves as the lifeblood of today’s modern economy, binding together businesses, streamlining supply chains, and championing eco-friendly initiatives on the path to achieving net-zero emissions. Nevertheless, this approach threatens the industry’s sustainability unless addressed.

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Forto

APRIL 25, 2020

More specifically, we have moved beyond offering just freight forwarding services. Today, we develop data-driven technology solutions and services for the entire logistics industry, empowering customers to own their supply chain. Beyond sea freight transportation. We’re here to help you.

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20Cube Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Sometime back, the logistics companies in India were known to have a laid back attitude, it was such that even adopting a new technology was a slow start, but with the latest advent like IoT, Data Analytics and Big Data the logistics companies have changed paths and transformed the way the sector works. How did it all start?

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 19, 2024

Photo by Jim Allen Drayage is a tricky market to dissect with a data solution. This is due to the drayage industry being highly fragmented, which makes pricing opaque. While SONAR doesn’t contain drayage rates yet, certain data sets provide a look forward at demand that can help carriers be nimble with timely adjustments to rates.

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Trans Global Auto Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Determining the current state of shipping industry news is similar to looking into a Magic 8 Ball – when you shake it and the water settles, the message says, “Future Remains Uncertain.” Shipping Industry News: The Good Let’s start this update on the most positive note.

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RPA Labs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While robotic process automation (RPA) integration provides an invaluable service within the many facets of the logistics industry, RPA in the shipping industry can also yield benefits from the numerous boosts in efficiency as well. Integrate Your Systems Today to Tap Into the Power of RPA In the Shipping Industry.

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ShipLilly

OCTOBER 14, 2021

26, according to shipping data compiled by Bloomberg. Some shipping companies have taken to continuously monitoring the market because freight forwarding has become an uncertain business. The Pacific hurricane season can be deadly and disruptive to the industry. The hurricane season is part of the shipping industry.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 3, 2023

Gary Nemmers , Martyn Verhaegen and Joe Lynch discuss digital freight forwarding – and the importance of a modern, data-driven logistics software platform to optimize every step of the freight forwarding process. Freight forwarding is one of the most difficult services within the logistics industry.

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Shipsta

MARCH 4, 2021

Digitization in tender management is a concept that is becoming increasingly relevant to carriers and freight forwarders. The digitization of processes also enables the generation of new data, which can be used to gain a strategic view of business operations, plan resource and improve decision-making.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Available as a feature in the DispatchTrack routing console, CO2 tracking enables companies in any market worldwide to better understand their existing carbon output on a per-route, per-stop, and per-vehicle basis, optimise routes to reduce CO2 output, and gather data to illustrate the impact of their sustainability initiatives.

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RPA Labs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The rise of technology has also rapidly increased the amount of company data, where it’s stored, and its uses. Forbes reported, “somewhere between 60-73% of enterprise data sits idle on servers somewhere in the cloud, a squandered resource never tapped for the benefit of the business.” Integrate Your Supply Chain Tech Stack.

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Tradewinds

JANUARY 5, 2019

Graham started his first freight forwarding company at the age of 22 and within a year, reached his $1M revenue goal. Due to the complexity, fragmentation, and multi-stakeholder dynamics of international shipping, freight forwarders are essential to global trade. We appreciate a review and rating!

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 2, 2020

But it’s not just new technology shaping the future of logistics: It’s also emerging business models and new industry players. Without the need for a rich asset background, startups tend to focus on the “asset-light” parts of the value chain, for example by turning into digital freight forwarders.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We have witnessed the greatest transformation to logistics and the supply chain the industry has ever seen over the past few years. Considering the past two years have been extremely profitable in shipping overall, this resulted in an increased interest in the industry by venture capital firms.

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Tech Portlogics is a digital freight forwarder offering clients a robotic, automation-based forwarding management system. The Traction + Next Steps Fast forward less than two years and 26 companies are currently using the new tech Choi and his team have created. But this doesn’t have to be the case any longer.

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