Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Supply Chain Matters reflects logistics and transportation services provider FedEx’s latest quarterly financial performance and the warning signs for the last mile delivery services segment. billion of common stock during fiscal 2025, for a stock buyback total of $2.5 Summary highlights included: Total revenues of $21.6

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The storms have delayed freight, increased congestion, and damaged crops, especially in Taiwan, where Typhoon Gaemi caused over $86 million in losses. Typhoons also disrupt industrial production, transport, and supply chains, with severe flooding and damage to road and rail networks. According to the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2022

Amazon on path to reach 100% renewable energy by 2025. While Amazon may be lagging on drone efforts, it is making headway in its pledge for renewable energy by 2025. The slower delivery times will allow it to use more trains and trucks as modes of transportation, which is more cost-effective and reliable than air transportation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2023

” The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has mandatory drug tests that any safety-sensitive employee must complete. The retailer has partnered with the Bengaluru-based cargo airline Quikjet to launch its maiden air freight service in the country, which it said will enable the firm to speed up its delivery.

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Elementum

JUNE 4, 2015

At the end of May the Ministry of Industry and Telecommunications Technology announced the introduction of China’s own manufacturing legislation: Made In China 2025. The creation of a fully integrated highway system will do wonders to relieve congestion caused by China’s freight-truck-heavy intermodal transportation system.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry. Freight rate reportedly fell 37 percent. The LMI has now declined 6.7

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Why aren’t we using more rail freight in Australia? According to logistics theory, rail freight comes into its own over greater geographical distances. I seem to recall learning back in my Cranfield days that 600 km was the magic number above which rail freight made economic sense. Rail Freight Australia.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2024

We further call attention to a published report indicating that container freight rates might surpass $20,000 per 40 foot container by 2025. The May report indicated that the Transportation Price index increased 13.7 Bloomberg has pointed out that the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index for China shipments to U.S.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 20, 2015

Top success in transportation services, logistics, the transport components of reverse logistics systems , and reaching financial goals set for transportation management demands a complete commitment of professionals passionate exclusively about excelling in the freight transportation field.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 29, 2024

retailers have been pulling forward their 2024 holiday fulfillment inventory needs as a hedge toward deepening global supply chain disruptions, geopolitical developments and rising freight rates. Added Perspectives In June we published a Supply Chain Matters industry commentary titled What’s Up in Exploding Freight Rates.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The right way” emphasizes that our fundamental relationship with the Earth demands that products be made and transported in ways not harmful to the Earth. This incremental change allows for greater recycling use and needs to be done in order for Coca-Cola to reach its 100% recycled bottle content objective by 2025.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , DSV has grown through a series of acquisitions from a small trucking company to a global transport and logistics services provider consisting of surface, air and sea transport coupled with order fulfillment and warehousing services.

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Turvo

JULY 14, 2020

Traditional freight brokers are afire with a need for technology. Everyone is looking for the next biggest and best freight brokerage solutions. It’s a complex transportation world, and the need to keep costs under control and enable shipment tracking has never been more important. billion by 2025.” billion by 2025.”

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Sean is the Chief Commercial Officer of Capstone Logistics , a leading provider of technology-enabled warehouse services, freight management, and last mile distribution solutions. Grocery shopping will never be the same and research suggests that 20% of groceries will be sold online by 2025. About Sean Coakley.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2021

Seventy-one percent of the surface of our “blue planet” is covered by oceans which is also reflected in the fact that 80% of goods are moved via sea transportation within the global supply chain [1]. Ships also account for around 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions [2] , contributing to the acceleration of climate change.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

Saint-Gobain also has a goal for organic growth of 3 – 5% through 2025. To support supply chain operations, Saint-Gobain has a Transport Control Tower. This control tower includes a supply chain design solution from Coupa that helps them reduce both freight costs and C02 emissions. There were also freight savings.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 9, 2021

bn during the forecast period 2021-2025.” ” To see less of an effect from these increasing transportation spend fees and market size, shippers can prepare with proper data insights, visibility , and parcel shipping advisors. Take Advantage of Zone Shipping to Lower Parcel Transportation Spend.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Business broadcasting network CNBC reported today that San Francisco based freight technology start-up Flexport has fired its CFO. In January, this start-up released upwards of 20 percent of the workforce , amounting to 600 people, due to freight recession conditions that continue to occur.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In fact, IDC predicts that manufacturers across Asia who digitally transform and accelerate sustainable innovation to improve supply chain operations, will increase their revenue by 20 percent in 2025. Dynamic routing has empowered logistics providers to consider plans B, C and D, offering alternative options of ocean and air freight cargo.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 16, 2022

Featuring Our Top 16 Articles on Freight and Logistics! In fact, experts predict that by 2025, the industry will be 380 billion US dollars. The company remained the solid pillar of strength for the country and helped with the efficient distribution and transportation of Oxygen and other life-saving pharmaceuticals.

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The Network Effect

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Generic drugs may be distributed over several logistical steps involving several distributors and transport providers while high-value specialty drugs and medical devices might be distributed from a single global or regional distribution center directly to the hospital (pharmacy or ward) or even the physician specialist at point of care.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2015

When commoditized warehousing and transportation functions dictated contractual arrangements, the idea of partnership was buried in the fine print. The biggest hurdle for logistics and transportation managers continues to be, how I get my product to my customer in the most cost effective, reliable, and quickest way.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JULY 7, 2021

To sceptics the vision of a sustainable supply chain remains an oxymoron, due to the emissions from 18-wheeler trucks, cargo planes, container ships and delivery vans as they move freight around the world. Intermodal transportation. In fact, rail can move a ton of freight nearly 450 miles with a single gallon of fuel.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Thanks to container prices rising as much as 600%, money that could be used for advertising went to freight companies instead. The auto industry makes up less than 9% of chip demand by revenue, and that figure is expected to increase by 10% per year until 2025.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The Tesla Semi Truck Will Change Freight. Freight innovation frequently focuses on moving data better – like visibility, eBookings , and the new generation of forwarders and brokers. Many major truck manufacturers are now investing in electric rigs, with one projection having them reaching a 25% market share by 2025.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

The responsibility for container safety is shared across the supply chain, with solutions for safer container transport including proper packing, stowage, and securing of containers, and reporting of correct weight. And Rhode Island said last week that it plans to move forward with its own rules. But industry voices have noted concerns.

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 8, 2019

The economic forecasts are mixed overall, which adds to uncertainty in other freight-producing sectors," wrote DAT analyst Mark Montague in a research note. Order rates right now are not that relevant,” said Don Ake, vice president of commercial vehicles at FTR Transportation Intelligence. Today in: "Where's my freight?".

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

The 2M alliance will be disbanded in 2025. The effectiveness of alliances in shipping depends on various factors, including the routes, the types of goods being transported, the competitiveness of the industry, and the specific goals of the participating companies. Are alliances the best model in the shipping industry?

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Multichannel Merchant

APRIL 7, 2022

The transportation sector is the largest U.S. Launched in 2004, this voluntary public-private program gives shippers a comprehensive system for tracking, documenting and sharing information about fuel use and freight emissions across supply chains. The call for sustainable shipping is getting real.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Over time it was understood that this was much needed and it actually helped in organizing and setting up different logistics and transport sectors to speed up their overall processes. The statistics have shown an increase in freight shipping volume to about 1325 billion and these numbers are predicted to double by 2025.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Background For some time now, Supply Chain Matters has published viewpoints on the disruptive threat that online platform provider Amazon will and has had on both online and physical retail, but also package logistics, transport and last mile product fulfillment strategies surrounding many industry sectors.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JULY 29, 2018

This is where it gets tricky, according to Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. The company also set a new goal that by 2025, 40% of all ground fuel will be from sources other than conventional gasoline and diesel, an increase from 19.6% In the U.S., Lauderdale.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 21, 2021

A new era of air transportation trends is emerging to create a confusing outlook for shippers. Air freight has been in nonstop peak-season mode despite pandemic-induced capacity decline, while other disruptions, such as the Suez Canal blockage, drove even more demand to air. Flex your creative muscles.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2023

Additional Thoughts and Perspectives As Supply Chain Matters has pointed out in our various highlights of this and other labor contract negotiations involving global transportation, logistics and other supply chain related support services, we are in a period of higher labor activism. This effort is bound to increase labor tensions.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

Futuristic road transportation technology with digital data transfer graphic showing concept of traffic big data analytic and internet of things. The transport and logistics industry, has seen several changes in business models in the last few years. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), there is USD 1.5 Dr. Shereen Nassar.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 19, 2021

Anyone who has been paying attention to the transportation of goods has noticed delays in their own shipments, headlines in mainstream media paying attention to supply chains, and a general heighted awareness of how goods get from point A to point B. How the stimulus is an extraordinary event creating freight demand.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

According to PLS Logistics , global companies will install procurement managers in China for entire organizations by 2025. Meanwhile, the use of Big Data will empower new fleets and freight optimization and consolidation measures, and the IoT will provide new insights. Globalization Will Become More Important in Everyday Decisions.

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