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Ocean Freight Contract Season: An Overview and Key Components

MTS Logistics

The ocean freight contract season is a critical time for businesses involved in global shipping and trade to negotiate advantageous terms and rates for delivering products across international borders. When does the ocean freight contract season get negotiated?

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10 Challenges for Shippers in Negotiating Trucking Contracts

FreightWaves SONAR

Transportation analytics is among the most effective tools in trucking contract negotiations. And it’s equally important to know the top 10 challenges for shippers in negotiating trucking contracts like limited headhaul insight and how to overcome them. Limited network contacts result in higher costs.

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Supply Chain Basics with Jason Miller

The Logistics of Logistics

His primary research stream examines firms’ logistics operations, with an emphasis on studying motor carrier safety, productivity, pricing dynamics, and driver turnover. Students graduate with foundational knowledge across all areas of SCM, positioning them to work in multiple capacities for the top global companies. Scorecards.

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How Landed Cost Affects Ecommerce Profitability

Ship Monk

Could there be hidden costs you’re not accounting for in your pricing strategy? One of the most common mistakes direct-to-consumer (DTC) ecommerce brands make is failing to understand and track their true costs, a.k.a. landed costs. What is Landed Cost? Landed Cost vs. Cost of Goods Sold.

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Transporeon Unveils Platform Innovations

Logistics Business Magazine

Autonomous Quotation Price negotiations remain opaque and manual in the growing freight spot market. Automating the process can also unlock cost-savings by minimising the manual work involved in the quotation process. Autonomous Quotation generates quotes based on companies’ individual quotation strategies.

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December 28, 2023 Update

Freightos

Judah Levine December 28, 2023 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) increased 7% to $1,659/FEU. Europe prices (FBX11 Weekly) increased 11% to $1,621/FEU.

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What are the Characteristics That Make up Parcel Pricing?

GlobalTranz

Unfortunately, finding savings in parcel shipping costs can be difficult at best, especially considering the major carriers’ constant changes to parcel service guides. Carriers have detailed published rates, counter rates and negotiated rates with various shippers, smaller carriers and even destination types. Negotiations.