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FedEx Elects to Spin Off LTL Freight Business

Supply Chain Matters

Transportation and logistics services provider FedEx announced this week that it has decided to spin off its FedEx Freight business unit. The freight unit was established in 2001, when FedEx Corporation acquired and merged the assets of American Freightways , Viking Freight and Watkins Motor Lines.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

and global ports, with highly complex air freight systems suffering the heaviest hit, as global airlines grounded flights. and global ports, with highly complex air freight systems suffering the heaviest hit, as global airlines grounded flights. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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3PL vs 4PL: How to Know Which One is Right for You

GlobalTranz

Among the services which they provide are transportation, warehousing, cross-docking, inventory management, packaging, and freight forwarding.”. It includes brokerages and freight forwarders, but there comes a point at which simply outsourcing to a single 3PL or even several 3PLs grows too complex to handle. from 2019 to 2026.”.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Colorado also adopted the rule but will have a heavy duty truck provision begin in 2027. Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. A string of states have already adopted California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Thanks to container prices rising as much as 600%, money that could be used for advertising went to freight companies instead. At the end of 2021, ocean freight rates were more than three times what they were throughout 2020. In November 2021, global air freight traffic (measured in tonne-kilometres) saw a 3.7% Bloomberg).

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The Better Goal: More Fuel Efficient Trucks or Using Fewer Trucks?

Talking Logistics

The proposed vehicle and engine performance standards would cover model years 2021-2027, and apply to semi-trucks, large pickup trucks and vans, and all types and sizes of buses and work trucks. For related commentary, see Transportation Collaboration: Optimizing Freight Costs by Sharing Capacity and 5 Principles for Greener Freight.

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Why Large Companies Increasingly Opt for 4PL Services

Logistics Bureau

million USD by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 4.5 percent between 2020 and 2027. Unloading of local freight and de-stuffing and palletising of international freight. Ambient and/or temperature-controlled storage of supplier freight. Phoenix Freight: 3PL and 4PL Provider. million USD in 2019. percent over FY19.