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Tracking Ecommerce Shipments: Tips & Insights

Ship Monk

In order to protect your inventory and customer experience, it’s vital that you understand the key components of keeping your orders safe when en route, know how to track them as they travel, and grasp the meanings behind different delivery status notifications. That’s where the shipping experts at ShipMonk come in.

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ORBCOMM Improves Cold Chain Telematics

Logistics Business Magazine

ORBCOMM’s next-generation RT 8000 will significantly improve how European cold chain operators in the food distribution, retail logistics and pharmaceutical industries track and monitor their temperature-controlled cargo. The unit is designed with the goal of reducing the frequency of field replacement.

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A Refresher on General Average and Why Shippers Should be Knowledgeable and Prepared

Dedola Global Logistics

The 14,000 TEU vessel experienced a massive container stack collapse en route to Long Beach from Hawaii on Nov. Cargo insurance protects your shipments and covers the full cost of loss regardless of the carrier liability. 30, 2020, with expected damages and losses to exceed $200 million. . Cargo Insurance is Essential. The Bottom Line.

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Today’s Freight Transportation Market: Answers to 9 Common Questions

CH Robinson Logistics

The carrier community has been aggressive in attracting drivers in the following ways: Increased compensation. The near-term and long-term challenges surrounding driver employment are certainly front and center in the carrier industry. The ocean carriers have signed more than 300 vessel orders in 2021 already.

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Ports brace for an onslaught of 1.9 million TEUs post-Suez Canal incident

Shipping and Freight Resource

At major ports such as Singapore, more than 370,000 TEU of capacity are en route to the port, where 83 vessels representing 299,310 TEU were already at the port or anchored and waiting to unload as of April 12. With more than 1.9 days (up from 1.09 days in March 2020); Shenzhen — Hamburg, where median delays last month were 9.23

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What’s going on with global supply chains: A primer for the casual consumer

Freightos

When that stopped, the industry found itself in a crunch and within just months, prices took off by some 400%. Prices climbed even as ocean carriers deployed 99% of all of the world’s container ships to keep up with the demand. Even if you don’t care about world economics or how the logistics industry operates, this is important.

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Recovering from Peak Season Order Issues

Ship Monk

Every shipping carrier has its own methodology for creating tracking numbers. For example, when it leaves a fulfillment center, arrives at the shipping carrier’s processing facility, leaves that facility, and so on. Thankfully, there are ways ecommerce businesses can see where their orders are. That is a two-fold outreach plan.