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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. Pete Buttigieg, U.S.

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

GlobalTranz

They all involve a degree of outsourcing transportation functions, whether that’s supply chain cybersecurity management or white glove services , and technically, all 4PLs and 5PLs exist as 3PLs too. Among the services which they provide are transportation, warehousing, cross-docking, inventory management, packaging, and freight forwarding.”.

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How Advancing Technology in Transportation Management Highlight the Growing Trucking Driver Shortage

GlobalTranz

Predictions for transportation management in 2016 highlighted growing stress and concern. Obviously, supply chain entities providing less-than-truckload and other modes of transportation do not want drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Big Data Became Essential to Transportation Management.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Colorado also adopted the rule but will have a heavy duty truck provision begin in 2027.

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

ToolsGroup

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. At the end of 2021, ocean freight rates were more than three times what they were throughout 2020. Department of Transportation ).

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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. Over the past five years, our transportation department in Mexico has demonstrated continued improvement in the area of efficiency.