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What blew your freight budget-the people or the process?

Logistics Management

t’s that time when transportation professionals begin preparing their freight budgets for the upcoming year. With all that’s occurred in 2018, I’ve had some very interesting conversations, especially with shippers. The leading candidate for my “Favorite Conversation of the Year Award” came from a loyal follower of our “Two Minute Warnings.” He asked when we would be releasing our “Crystal Ball” publication, because he has found our materials to be invaluable when creating his freight budget.

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10 Holiday Prep Tips for Your eCommerce Business

Ottawa Logistics

There’s an undeniable nip of cold in the air and the Holidays are just around the corner. Soon the waves of eager customers looking for holiday gifts for friends and family will flood online and physical shopping venues all over the world. Once, shoppers would have had to perform their yearly pilgrimage to the shopping malls to get everything they need but today, eCommerce is the new crowd-free shopping mall alternative.

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Trans Global Projects Open New Offices in China

Logistics Manager

UK-based Trans Global Projects recently announced the opening of two new offices in China that will see their Hong Kong branch relocate to Shanghai and the launch of a completely new office in Dalian. Trans Global Projects have witnessed a continuing boom in the Chinese logistics industry and are aiming to further align their global network with the Chinese market to ensure they have a key foothold within the leading economic power in Asia.

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WFS to Handle New Oslo Seafood Center

247 Customs Broker

A new lucrative piece of business will fall to Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) after having signed an MOU with Norways Sjomatterminalen AS which will allow WFS to operate the new Seafood. Center planned for Oslo Airport. State-of- the art facility Once completed, the facility will be able to handle up to 250,000 tons of seafood annually. Seafood, especially salmon, is now probably Norway’s largest export commodity with 230,000 tons. expected to be moved out of the country in 2018.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

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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Emirates SkyCargo Transports Record Number of Vaccines to Brazil

Airfreight Logistics

Emirates Airlines Freight Division, Emirates SkyCargo recently announced they have transported over 25 tonnes of vaccines from Milan to BH airport, Bello Horizonte in Brazil using one of their Boeing 777 freighter aircraft. This transportation project was the largest the shipment of vaccines that Emirates SkyCargo has transported on a single flight, it was also the first such a large shipment of vaccines had been delivered to BH Airport.

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Japan, Russia Join for Trans-Siberian Rail Transportation

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Shailaja A. Lakshmi August 19, 2018 Japan and Russia plan to officially develop a freight transport route between the two countries via the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Yomiuri newspaper reported. The report said that the two governments aim to foster mutual economic cooperation by energizing the “third distribution channel,” after sea and air routes.

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What blew your freight budget-the people or the process?

247 Customs Broker

It’s that time when transportation professionals begin preparing their freight budgets for the upcoming year. With all that’s occurred in 2018, I’ve had some very interesting conversations, especially with shippers. The leading candidate for my “Favorite Conversation of the Year Award” came from a loyal follower of our “Two Minute Warnings.” He asked when we would be releasing our “Crystal Ball” publication, because he has found our materials to be invaluable when creating his freight budget.

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