Shipping and Freight Resource

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

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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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Nashville, TN — In an era where technology is continuing to migrate consumer spending habits online and away from brick-and-mortar stores, the newly released 2019 Third-Party Logistics Study (#3PLStudy) highlights how supply chains are also going digital and using science to keep pace. The publication, available at www.3PLStudy.com

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 16, 2023

But, keep in mind it is documented that most of our infrastructure was built using the temperature records from the mid-20th century. In 2017, a study assessed extreme climate impacts on infrastructure in Europe. Project cargo weight on these possible compromised roads and railways should be a concern even with DOT route surveys.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Penske Logistics will appear on a trio of educational sessions and once again serve as a Global Sponsor at the upcoming Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ( CSCMP) EDGE conference in Anaheim, California, from September 15-18. economy through the lens of the supply chain. to reach $1.64

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

Supply Chain Risk Management Solution from riskmethods. If I was asked to vote for the most interesting solution set that has come to the fore over the last few years, my vote would be for supply chain risk management solutions. This solution has a graphical view of the AGCO supply chain across multiple supplier tiers.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In an era where technology is continuing to migrate consumer spending habits online and away from brick-and-mortar stores, the newly released 2019 Third-Party Logistics Study (#3PLStudy) highlights how supply chains are also going digital and using science to keep pace. The publication, available at no cost at www.3PLStudy.com

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 20, 2022

The rise in eCommerce and bottlenecks in the global supply chain are driving the need to solve these challenges. Studies have shown that effective project planning leads to improved performance. Ensure project documents are living and breathing by bringing a plan-do-check mentality to the project.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We are continuing to monitor the situation and communicating with other industries and the government to ensure keep the supply chain updated.”. Also at the meeting, TIMCON launched its annual UK Wood Pallets & Packaging Market survey for 2020, which it publishes jointly with the Forestry Commission.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Supply chain transparency, in particular, has come a long way over the past twenty years. Transparency within the supply chain has gone from an unrecognized concept to a focus item for the C-Suite across a vast number of companies and industries. Given the current state of the market, it’s no small surprise either.

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Freightos

AUGUST 29, 2019

In becoming more responsive, carriers also help their larger customers as they develop more agile supply chains. Two growing sets of international freight customers – Millennials, who now make 36% of the U.S. workforce , and smaller ecommerce retailers, whose businesses live and die on customer services – expect nothing less.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2022

Few organizations are immune to the effects, which are acutely felt in supply chains — and the more complex they are, the greater the probability of interruptions. The study found that these leaders considered the largest gap to be between supply chain and procurement, citing it as a major issue.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Supply chain areas like transportation and logistics have in particular reported robust hiring and some difficulties in finding skilled workers. The plight of many doctorates who are barely making ends meet, often as “adjunct faculty,” has been well-documented. Rigorous data is scarce is in this area. It is completely anonymous.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 8, 2018

Among the report’s key findings was that forwarders that quote manually took 57 hours on average—an improvement on previous surveys, but still 20th century performance. Furthermore, 72% of those forwarders surveyed failed to quote, thereby missing out on digital business. They don’t understand the business side of things.”.

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Turvo

JUNE 10, 2020

The costs of supply chain disruptions vary based on the severity of the disruption, how quickly companies recover, and numerous other factors. In the post COVID supply chain, drivers want a safer, healthier option than spending extra time in facilities. Without an adequate supply, the supply chain shuts down.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

Yossi Sheffi of MIT is certainly one of the most influential and I would add interesting figures in supply chain today. Of late, about every three years he produces a new supply chain-related book, the last two being complementary takes on supply chain resilience and risk management.

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Expedited Freight Questions Answered Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - November 10, 2023 Whether your organization uses expedited freight shipping every day or occasionally, it pays to understand how to use these services as effectively as possible.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

“The dire predictions that robots are going to take our jobs are overstated,” said Susan Lund, co-author of the study for McKinsey, adding “There will be enough jobs for everyone in most sectors.” Maybe a software robot will be writing columns on supply chain topics before too long too.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Covid Vaccine Issues Put an Increased Foucs on Cold Chain Logistics . Covid has led supply chain management issues to be more discussed than ever before. But within supply chain management, the complexities associated with vaccine distribution made cold chains one of the key supply chain topics getting attention this year.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 10, 2018

Shipa Freight’s global study of 800 SMEs from developed and emerging markets shows that smaller companies are remarkably upbeat about their ability to expand through trade. Eighty-nine percent of exporting SMEs surveyed say their export revenue will grow over the next three years. About the study.

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Forto

JULY 15, 2019

However, if a freight forwarder has failed to deliver time and time again, the repeated failures will start impacting a shipper’s business, supply chain, and ultimately the shipper’s customers as the reliability of deliveries will be called into question. The same applies to document management and exception handling.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Over the first ten months of 2018, Brazil’s GDP rose by around 1.3%, after one of its longest recessions in history, and according to a Central Bank survey of economists, this should edge up to around 2.5% Maurício Almeida, senior director of operations at DHL Supply Chain for Brazil, says Anfavea’s registration data showed 25.6%

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 17, 2018

There have been many studies and horror stories about the accuracy of freight invoices and seasoned professionals acknowledge that the invoice mistakes are there – some citing error rates as high as 20%. Blockages in the payment pipeline are often due to discrepancies in the invoices and supporting documents submitted.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 4, 2019

” With the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), don’t expect major shifts in how North American supply chains are managed. ” With the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), don’t expect major shifts in how North American supply chains are managed. The new NAFTA. Jose Minarro.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 3, 2017

The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) has released the results of its annual manufacturing content marketing survey, and there have been some big changes since last year. Like many businesses in the logistics and supply chain industries, manufacturing companies have been slow to adopt modern marketing principles. Going forward.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

As global trade intensifies, so do the risks associated with cyber breaches, fraud and limited visibility for shippers to track and trace international shipments across the end-to-end supply chain. Indeed, digitalisation is now a buzzword in supply chain circles, as logistics innovators look for ways to improve operating platforms.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

MH&L’s Editorial Advisory Board tackles some of the toughest topics facing the supply chain today. Every year, in our annual MH&L Salary Survey , we ask readers to identify the biggest challenge they face in their jobs, and every year they tell us the same thing: finding, developing and retaining talent.

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