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Preparedness, Communication Key to Mitigating the Effects of a Weather Event on Fleets and Maximizing Opportunity

Blue Grace Logistics

Preparedness, communication key to mitigating the effects of a weather event on fleets and maximizing opportunity. In most cases, landfall (timeframe and location) and severity are known hours – if not days – in advance, but they consistently create logistical logjams for inbound and outbound freight. CCJ Digital. Sep 9, 2021.

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February 2024 Freight Market Update

Trinity Logistics

However, an impact could be felt from recent events with regards to container shipping that would make it feel like less trucks are available. With recent geo-political events, and events at home, shipping to the West Coast has become more feasible than it was a year, certainly two years, ago. As you can see in Figure 1.1,

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Commercial Vehicle Show

Logistics Business Magazine

The Commercial Vehicle Show is the largest and most comprehensive road freight transport, distribution, and logistics event in the United Kingdom. The show offers commercial vehicle manufacturers, dealers, distributors, and hundreds of sector suppliers an energetic event based on an established brand first launched in 2000.

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. The moves span inbound, intracompany, and outbound shipping. It was quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline. It was quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline.

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What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? Resilience, Efficiency, Responsiveness, or Widespread Dysfunction?

Logistics Viewpoints

Recent events have elevated supply chain to a top priority for CEOs across the globe. The Conference Board ( conference-board.org ), a well-known, global business membership organization, conducted its C-SUITE OUTLOOK survey in the fall of 2021. and warehouse and fulfillment resilience approaches.

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How freight markets react amid weather-related chaos

FreightWaves SONAR

These major weather events affect transportation markets in the days leading up to the event and following the events in different ways. Major weather events hamper transportation markets from both the demand and supply sides of the market. The demand side of the market is an easier impact to understand.

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Stord Strengthens its Leading WMS Solution with 3PL-focused Functionality

Stord

Its Stord One Warehouse WMS software has let us cut our receiving and outbound processing time in half, provide real-time inventory updates to our clients, improve our inbounding accuracy, and boost efficiency by having product available almost immediately to pick orders,” said Sam Manley, Director of Business Development at G.O.S.S.

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