Freightos

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For example, if we look at recent peak seasons, the cost of shipping a 40’ container from Asia to the US West Coast in September 2019 was $1,437 according to the Freightos Baltic Index (FBX). Switching from ocean to air cargo or from full containers to LCL (Less than Container Load). Looking to compare and book freight?

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

Just 14 years later, the first air cargo flight took place in 1910. ”[3] In 2019, Logistics Plus Inc., ”[4] In the press release announcing the 2019 event, Scott G. ”[7] Even back then, food, spices, salt, and other goods had to be sourced and moved. ” Cision PR Newswire, 28 June 2019. [5]

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The Associated Press reports, “Canal authorities attributed the drought to the El Niño weather phenomenon and climate change, and warned it was urgent for Panama to seek new water sources for both the canal’s operations and human consumption. In January Panamanian authorities slashed Panama Canal ship crossings by 36%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2021

alternate sourcing strategies), while others are potentially negative (e.g. China increased its lead in global parcel volume in 2019, shipping more than 63 billion parcels last year, representing 26% YoY growth and making up substantially more than half of global parcel volume. fewer commuting miles driven), some largely neutral (e.g.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases. Image via StarAir.dk). Behind the Maersk shift. One goal, two different motivations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

In fact, IT spend as a percent of business capex crossed over the prior ~10 year average in 2019 and we see that trend extending in early 2020.”. According to a Forbes article, BD managed a number of disruptions seamlessly , including a rudder problem with a cargo ship that resulted in 28 BD containers being thrown overboard.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 27, 2024

National Logistics Day was established in 2019 when Logistics Plus partnered with the Registrar at National Day Calendar to create an annual day to recognize and appreciate the importance of the logistics industry in both the U.S. Just 14 years later, the first air cargo flight took place in 1910. million residents.”[2]

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3rdwave

MARCH 28, 2019

Sitting at the airport awaiting my flight back home provides an opportunity to reflect back on my experience at the TPM 2019 conference in Long Beach, California. What’s more, that vessel will need to be repositioned twice without cargo, resulting in lost revenue for that asset. I am very much looking forward to next year’s TPM.

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3rdwave

MARCH 28, 2019

Sitting at the airport awaiting my flight back home provides an opportunity to reflect back on my experience at the TPM 2019 conference in Long Beach, California. What’s more, that vessel will need to be repositioned twice without cargo, resulting in lost revenue for that asset. I am very much looking forward to next year’s TPM.

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AFFLINK

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

As we enter the last half of 2019 (and cast our eyes on 2020), there are a number of developments that need to be watched. With unique identifiers, shipments and cargo can be tracked on a transactional level. The entire history of a shipment or cargo can be tracked, with clear hand-off points and accountability. 5G and IoT.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 18, 2019

… Blockchains can be used to ensure that products are ethically sourced, and that they have been acquired from safe, certified sources.” 2019 is likely to see the supply chain and logistics industry swiftly adopt blockchain technology as a means to keep up with growing demand. ” AFFLINK, 10 May 2019. [5]

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Multichannel Merchant

JANUARY 3, 2023

Amazon, facing a continued slowdown in its ecommerce business and under pressure to boost flagging sales, is looking to sell excess capacity on its commercial cargo jetliners used to move goods among its network of warehouses here and in Europe, Bloomberg reports. billion more than in 2019. billion, which is $48.6

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Despite carrier hopes of volume normalization as the market contracts in 2023, FreightWaves warns, “ 2023 is likely to be another year of sub-replacement level builds due to parts and components shortages as well as Europe’s struggles with sourcing energy to power vendor manufacturing site. ”. YoY Volume Lapses Worry Air Cargo Companies.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2019

Bindiya Vakil ( @BindiyaVakil ), Resilinc CEO, notes, “Supply chain, sourcing and procurement professionals are on the front lines of managing global trade risks for their companies. 2018 challenged them in new ways, and 2019 is shaping up to present continued uncertainty as long-standing trade relationships are reconfigured.”

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 21, 2021

The new concepts require: digital supply chain execution capabilities in transportation, warehouse, labor and fulfillment digital control towers fueled by artificial intelligence (AI), data science and analytics strategic product segmentation, sourcing and inventory management effective pricing and promotions management.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 3, 2019

As the logistics industry, and the broader business world, looks to 2019, it’s time to explore what the next year will bring to logistics. After reviewing several industry sources most Logistics professionals are in agreement with all of these trends. Blockchain technology will increase transparency for importers and exporters in 2019.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 11, 2020

He explains, “Supply chain networks need to provide greater visibility into every aspect of operations, from initial sourcing to the last mile, including fulfilment. Cargo bikes, drones, last mile robots, and autonomous delivery vans are all being trialed.” Last mile is the most expensive part of the delivery process.

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Gravity Supply Chain

JULY 9, 2020

Gartner’s ‘ Top 8 Supply Chain Technology Trends for 2019 ’ report indicates that IoT adoption is growing in select supply chain domains, but rarely as part of a complete end-to-end supply chain process. overall environmental/health status of cargo. Our products support industry needs, spanning areas such as: Sourcing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Freight Rates 2019-2021. meters draft, and cargo capacity up to 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU); previously, it could only handle vessels up to about 5,000 TEU.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The speed of drones is a major selling point for customers, of which 79% say they would be “very likely” or “somewhat likely” to request drone delivery if their package could be delivered within an hour (Source: Walker Sands Future of Retail 2016 Study ). UPS offers one possible way that drones could be used within last mile logistics.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

From the earliest days of the pandemic, air cargo providers have been called upon to meet high demand for PPE and other critical products, and later to deliver vaccine doses. Now, air shipping is increasingly in demand by retailers whose products would otherwise languish off the coast of Southern California or in congested Chinese ports.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 22, 2016

The CEO of the company behind the test (Hyperloop One) estimates that the system will be transporting cargo by 2019 and passengers by 2021. They might allow companies to carry less inventory – perhaps using Hyperloop to rapidly source whatever parts or raw materials that can’t be 3D printed.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 30, 2020

Truckers, warehouse workers and cargo handlers, all in a vast network, find themselves one endless day after the next getting food, medicine and, yes, toilet paper to customers. 4] Steve Mitchell, “ Three Good Arguments for a Flexible Supply Chain ,” Supply Chain Brain , 25 October 2019. [5] ” Cost reduction.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2017

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

San Francisco -based Onera provides retail technology that connects inventory across siloed systems and transforms them into a single, real-time source of inventory status. A previous edition of this column published in December of 2019 highlighted release of the company’s fulfillment operating system.

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Sustainability is an often-discussed concept that can be a reliable source of differentiation for CPG manufacturers. In a 2019 survey from Hotwire , 47% of consumers said they had recently switched to a different product or service because the company had violated their values. Aligning Parts of the Supply Chain.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Top View Cargo containers ship logistics transportation Container Ship Vessel Cargo Carrier. New regulations and changes to EU shipping processes and requirements will make it all the more vital that importers and exporters have a single source of information and service.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

port authorities and terminal operators, regulatory bodies, and Beneficial Cargo Owners (BCO) are all working on this topic. Ports and hinterland carriers want to know what cargo (and how fast it) is approaching them, and where it is heading. Logistic Service Providers (LSP), carriers, intermodal operators (air, sea, ground etc.),

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Freightos

MAY 31, 2022

In retrospect I’m pleased that I was blissfully ignorant of the fact that it would take so many years for even a single cargo airline, or container ocean liner, to provide an API (that is digital computer to computer connection) for instant rates, capacity, and electronic bookings. Between 2012 and 2019 we made the most of what we had.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

We hope you enjoy this salute to the best of 2018, and we look forward to even more innovations in 2019. In that spirit, we’ve combed the MH&L archives for the most innovative supply chain developments of the past year, as reported in our print magazine, on our website, in our e-newsletters, or our various social media channels.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Warehouse receiving is a misunderstood source of bottlenecks in the supply chain, and it has been a problem since long before the pandemic. I wrote a previous article about a similar dynamic for transportation — how optimizing the way trucks are loaded with cargo requires taking into account truck capacity during the planning process.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Warehouse receiving is a misunderstood source of bottlenecks in the supply chain, and it has been a problem since long before the pandemic. I wrote a previous article about a similar dynamic for transportation — how optimizing the way trucks are loaded with cargo requires taking into account truck capacity during the planning process.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Source: Data from the Federal Reserve Board of St. There’s also the problem of empty miles (trucks driving with no cargo after completing a delivery), with an estimated 35% of truck miles being empty in the U.S. Costs have increased about 60% since before the pandemic. Low Transportation Capacity Utilization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Freight Rates 2019-2021. meters draft, and cargo capacity up to 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU); previously, it could only handle vessels up to about 5,000 TEU.

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ThroughPut

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Published October 25, 2019 in Global Trade Magazine. You can’t just turn around a giant cargo ship. Once cargo has shipped, there are no “backsies.” Everything from custom duties to cargo inspections can create bottlenecks within the supply chain. This isn’t to say you should avoid international sources for goods.

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Vinculum

MARCH 18, 2021

They are as safe as they are economical in terms of conducting inventory, locating cargo, cycle counting, and even performing stock-taking operations. As Gartner predicts, drones will grow to over 13 million units in 2029 worldwide which was 989,000 in 2019. Equipped with sensors, cameras, barcode scanners etc.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

tractor fleet and sourcing 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, according to the press release. British supermarkets source peppers exclusively from Spain during the winter months. The rooftops of medium and large warehouses built before 2019 could produce 185.6 percent by 2030. Generating the full 185.6

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