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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

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This year, with the LA Rams being Super Bowl champs, Good360 said it will ship thousands of “unsellable” Bengals-branded hats, T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, COVID-19 masks, and scarves to struggling people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. New wave of contracts will lock in much higher shipping rates.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

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The retailer says snacks and beverages are the most popular items sent by drone. Amazon shipped last-minute Christmas gifts faster in 2023 than in 2022, according to data from analyst firm Momentum Commerce. products on the platform warned it would ship after Christmas. And now on to this week’s logistics news. percent of U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 23 – 29)

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But for a lot of kids, it may have been Fisher-Price’s Chatter Telephone, which debuted sixty years ago. According to Best Buy, the limited-edition model is available for $60 and works through a Bluetooth connection from users’ cell phones. UPS posts record-breaking profits, plans to hike prices. Gopuff arrives in New York.

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How Connecting Your TMS Saves Time and Money

CH Robinson Transportfolio

In your personal life, you can use a variety of devices to make purchases—from your phone to your smart TV, it’s all possible within whatever device you’re using. In fact, today you can procure freight rates from your transportation providers right in your TMS. Freight in new lanes out of bid cycle. Specialized project freight.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 20-24, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Price-Fixing Probe (WSJ – sub. January 2017 North American Freight Numbers. There was a lot of shipping-related news this week. At launch, eBay will guarantee delivery in 3 days or less on 20 million eligible items – millions of which will offer free shipping. NAFTA freight totaled $88.0 in February.

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How To Start Your Brewery On The Path To Success

Unleashed

Don’t purchase any supply chain solution that is not Cloud or SaaS based. That means you can buy it as a remote online service (SaaS) paying typically by user per month, or buy and install the software on the cloud. Don’t buy any solution from a supplier that has no brewing sector experience. Costed Purchase Orders.

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How to Calculate Dimensional Weight and Why It Matters

Ware2Go

Learn how to calculate and reduce dimensional weight to lower shipping costs and improve margins. DIM weight is a formula used by carriers to determine the cost of shipping a package first implemented by UPS, FedEx, and USPS in 2015. Last mile carriers use DIM weight to calculate shipping prices. What is DIM Pricing?