The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 17, 2024

Chris Cser and Joe Lynch discuss global giants – ICAT moves the world’s largest cargo. Chris is the Director of Operations at ICAT Logistics Detroit where they handle the shipments that other companies don’t, can’t, and won’t. The most efficient modes of transport. The best routes.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Speakers are the SCRC meeting yesterday and today continued to speak more on the topic of transportation strategy given increasing challenges in the transportation sector, and the need for an effective transportation management strategy. As an example, Adam Ruff mentioned the big border crossing across the Detroit River.

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

When the expanded Panama Canal opened this June, a new set of routes became available for shippers and beneficial cargo owners (BCOs). A transportation management system (TMS) can help shippers weigh the pros and cons of each option. For two product types, pumps and t-shirts, transportation constitutes just 3% of revenues at most.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The biggest savings won’t be from trying to make transportation cheaper at a plant, but looking at why logistics cost are so high for that plant. By looking more broadly than just how can we reduce the transportation or warehousing costs, they will find the big savings, the billion dollar savings. No, we’re not.

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GTG Technology Group

AUGUST 6, 2018

This was the year a local lumber merchant asked Fruehauf – a blacksmith and carriage builder in Detroit at the time – to build him something to haul his boat using his Ford vehicle. Today’s 18-wheelers can accommodate up to 700,000 tons of cargo per year! The Future of Hauling.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 27, 2015

It will take in other metropolitan areas like Detroit and Columbus, and encompass a newly contested region that accounts for more than 15% of the U.S. They serve regional markets and are unlikely to receive large volumes of cargo headed to the battleground region. Neutral or Unclear: Baltimore, Miami, and other East Coast ports.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 21, 2016

It will take in other metropolitan areas like Detroit and Columbus, and encompass a newly contested region that accounts for more than 15% of the U.S. They serve regional markets and are unlikely to receive large volumes of cargo headed to the battleground region. Neutral or Unclear: Baltimore, Miami, and other East Coast ports.

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