Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2018

The fee reduction for 2018, totaling about 9%, was based on a recommendation from the UCR Board of Directors following several years of higher than expected collections.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2018

There's good news for businesses in the manufacturing industry looking to stay competitive in a global marketplace. According to a report by Deloitte, the U.S. is expected to be the most competitive manufacturing nation in the world and will move China to the number two position by 2020. Although the optimistic news leaves manufacturers in a prime global position, what does it mean for companies competing domestically?

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2018

With factories around the world humming, demand for raw materials is fast increasing pushing the Bloomberg Commodities Spot Index, which tracks the price of 22 raw materials, the highest since December 2014. The strongest manufacturing activity since the aftermath of the global financial crisis is slowly draining commodities surpluses, sending prices to a 3-year high as investors pour money into everything from oil to copper.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2018

Can a Cuban ski in -21.6F and survive? I wasn’t willing to find out. But I did ski the day before when it was a balmy -10F and I survived (barely) eight runs down the mountain. The cold still has a tight grip on the East coast, with more than a foot of snow falling yesterday and today we’re blessed with wind chills as low as -20F. Happy New Year, everyone!

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Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.

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AAJ Enterprises

JANUARY 5, 2018

In the most common sense, logistics states the question of how and from where to where the supply of materials or products needs to be taken place. Various decisions like stock holding, its transportation management, storing and accommodation, supply to the end parties has to be taken to meet the requirements of both buyers and sellers. The task of managing the supply chain activities can be tiresome and demands extensive efforts and diligent approach from part of the 3pl company in Bangalore.

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Freightera

JANUARY 5, 2018

How to Avoid Freight Damage. and how to deal with damage if it does happen. The uncomfortable truth is: shipments do get damaged. It happens rarely in the freight industry (to less than 1% of shipments) but it does happen, and we understand that it can have a huge impact on your business being conducted effectively. However, it also holds true that these accidents are often preventable.

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Penske Move Ahead

JANUARY 5, 2018

The current state of the trucking industry is putting shippers across the country in a bind – leaving them with fluctuating rates for freight transportation and a shortage of drivers. Several factors have driven high demand for trucks, including the hurricane relief efforts in Florida and Texas, severe winter storms, higher holiday freight volumes, new driver regulations for electronic logging devices (ELDs) and an overall increase in economic activity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2018

Happy New Year and welcome back to Logistics Viewpoints! It’s good to be back, refreshed and rested, and ready to bring you all the logistics news you’ve been missing. After a bitterly cold stretch here in the Boston area to end 2017 and start 2018, we finally got a reprieve from the cold yesterday. And by reprieve, I mean the temperatures finally escaped the single digits and crept up towards freezing.

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