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

Logistics Viewpoints

The Conference Board ( conference-board.org ), a well-known, global business membership organization, conducted its C-SUITE OUTLOOK survey in the fall of 2021. Its survey results showed supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and rising inflation to be 3 of the 5 high impact external factors on the minds of CEOs.

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The Weekly Freight Report for November 27, 2020

FLS Transport

The Reefer Outbound Tender Rejection Index hit an all time high of 48% this week. A recent survey shows consumers and retailers are feeling confident about holiday fulfillment. Check out the survey results here. Survey indicates optimistic view for the manufacturing sector. when the same group was surveyed back in May.

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The Weekly Freight Report for February 4th, 2021

FLS Transport

After the market took a breath in late January, volumes bounced back last week… Volume is up 21% year over year and it seems outbound tender rejections may have found a floor. Port officials, trade groups and maritime regulators are calling on the White House for a priority COVID-19 vaccine for industry workers.

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Making strategic investments in digital supply chain in a downcycle

FreightWaves SONAR

The Outbound Tender Reject Index measures the percentage of load tenders rejected by carriers. As a group, the supply chain executives believed that mitigating risk was necessary but said their companies didn’t prioritize resilience. To learn more about FreightWaves SONAR, click here.)

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The Weekly Freight Report for March 4th, 2021

FLS Transport

FREIGHT CHART OF THE WEEK: If you look at one chart this week, make it the outbound tender volume index. Traveling… beaches… and dining out with groups of friends. A new survey from IBM says that’s about to change. The hottest stories in freight can be found here, in the Weekly Freight Report: 1. Get the full details here.

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Reduced trucking capacity – the shortage of drivers and its impact

Transporeon

carriers have reported that they have been at capacity utilization rates of 95% and higher from the last quarter of 2017 through mid-2018, as evidenced by recent surveys conducted on the Transporeon platform. Der Beitrag Reduced trucking capacity – the shortage of drivers and its impact erschien zuerst auf TRANSPOREON Group Blog.

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FedEx Express introduces new Sydney-Singapore flight

247 Customs Broker

While the frequency for flights between Sydney and Singapore remains the same, the new flight enables a 3-hour cut-off time improvement for outbound shipments to Singapore and Malaysia from Tuesday to Friday,” she said. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. About the Author.