Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Walmart said it will host its Walmart Deals – Holiday Kickoff savings event, featuring deals on thousands of holiday gift items across categories such as electronics, home, fashion, and toys, from Monday, October 9 through Thursday, October 12.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Just in time for the holidays, the Ship It Zero campaign is bringing visibility to the impacts of dirty ocean shipping caused by mega retailers all year round but especially as they ship their goods during the holiday season.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 28, 2017

Freight shipping has relied on the same systems for years, ranging from manual entries to a constant struggle in balancing delivery windows with costs. Before these changes can happen, shippers need to understand a few things about LTL shipping challenges and ways Less Than Truckload technology will impact them. Carrier rates may vary.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice! Significance.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

The History of the Shipping Container. 26 April 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy. But the modern shipping container has changed much more than one industry. Significance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But Molex, a global electronics and connectivity solutions company, has been investing in their intelligent digital supply chain strategy to improve their supply chain agility and customer experience. Those industries include data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics. But they were very basic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2024

Data across the retail sector shows year-over-year order increases through June, including at department stores, electronics, and apparel retailers with bricks-and-mortar locations (32.9%), home improvement (24.4%), grocery & superstores (22.1%), and discount retailers & wholesalers (13%).

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The Regulation’s Impact on Ocean Shipping and Data Management. The revised Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) container weight verification requirement is a significant change in the ocean cargo supply chain. In regard to rolling out the regulation in practice, multiple considerations remain depending on the type of cargo and other factors.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Key features include the tracking of concise milestones to bring supply chain transparency, a completely digital document repository to facilitate real time sharing and confirmation of shipping documents, exception management, and many other collaboration tool-kits. a) Real-time Shipping Milestones. c) Collaborative Chat.

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Zipline Logistics

APRIL 11, 2023

Cargo theft is surging across the United States — and food and beverage products seem to be the main targets. Cargo Theft Increases in the United States Cities seeing a spike in freight theft include Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Savannah, Newark, New Jersey, Memphis, and Chicago.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

In contrast, the larger Amazon warehouses typically rely on delivery stations closer to customers for the final stage of shipping. Amazon’s fast-shipping service can add fees for small orders. The air cargo industry has seen softer market rates due to increased capacity and shippers flocking back to ocean freight services.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 23, 2018

At the same time, this technology helps decrease the amount of fraud and cargo theft. It grows constantly, and we need to implement innovative solutions to cope with the growth of the shipping needs.” In turn, the latter activates the shipping system. GET YOUR FREE WHITE PAPER. DOWNLOAD WHITE PAPER.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2023

The point is to stop shipping small online orders in boxes that are ridiculously oversized. Electronics seller Crutchfield Corp. has been shipping orders in made-to-fit packaging for roughly a decade, and the automation has cut the average box size in half and reduced shipping and packaging material expenses.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Shipping products overseas article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has paved the way for easier cross-border transactions, with customers having no qualms of ordering products located halfway across the globe. Why Engage In International Shipping? Subscribe Here!

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

It means being able to see where a shipment or an order is while it’s in transit — whether on a truck, a railcar, an ocean liner or a cargo plane — anywhere in the world. Data on ocean shipments, for example, is generally available across the globe, due primarily to greater standardization in ocean shipping.

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Freightos

JANUARY 12, 2017

International Air Freight Shipping: Definition. Air cargo is used by global importers and exporters when they need to get goods somewhere rapidly and reliably. While 90% of everything is shipped by ocean, air connects the world faster, cutting China-US freight shipping time from 20-30 days by ocean to only 3 days by air cargo.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 21, 2025

Risks include ongoing Red Sea disruptions brought on by attacks on cargo and container ships, the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict destabilizing manufacturing and trade activities, along with Taiwan trade risks brought about by Chinese military drills hindering trade through major sea routes.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Hiring an IOR agent like GeTS can help you handle all this electronically on your behalf. The CIF is an international shipping agreement representing the charges paid by a seller to cover the costs, insurance, and freight of a buyer’s order while the cargo is in transit.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2015

Enough to go through every single article published in the top tech blogs – Techcrunch, Verge, Mashable and Recode – since 2007 to count how often articles about logistics startups, freight or cargo were published. Movers marketplace matching shipping requirement with freelance student drivers. Specialized Shipping.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 17, 2021

International shipping industry article and permission to publish here provided by Daniel Choi. Even during the epidemic, the shipping industry’s significance in the value chain and the transportation of resources and goods worldwide was emphasized, probably most prominently. The Shipping Industry During Pandemic.

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Freightos

AUGUST 6, 2016

Plummeting freight rates mean that under 50% of logistics providers turn a profit on ocean shipping, while threatening competition from industry newcomers like Amazon and Alibaba spell out unprecedented challenges for the logistics industry. DHL seeded its empire by moving ocean documentation faster than cargo ships.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

tariff on China electronics is seeing a rise in demand for these products from other countries within Asia. Ports are having to off-load cargo onto the new mega-ships offshore from multiple smaller ships because they don’t have the capacity to handle the bigger vessels. Logistics is a whole other ballgame.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 18, 2015

In this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon in talks to lease 20 jets to launch air-cargo business (The Seattle Times). Truckers take government to court over electronic logbook mandate. That would help Amazon keep the cargo planes loaded even after the holiday crush ends. Baird & Co.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A widely recognized leader in the global logistics industry, Neel was formerly SVP and Chief Cargo Officer at Delta Airlines and VP Sales and Marketing at United Airlines. Shipping via ocean freight has become very difficult and expensive. Neel is the EVP and Global Head of Airfreight at Flexport , the platform for global logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Schiphol airport gears up for chilled vaccine cargos. Walmart scraps shipping minimum for subscription service. UPS can make as much as 1,200 pounds of dry ice an hour near its Worldport air hub in Louisville, KY, and can ship it the next day to US and Canadian hospitals and clinics.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The Shipping Container. Amazon Anticipatory Shipping. The Shipping Container, 1958. The shipping container changed shipping forever. Prior to the container, general cargo was a general mess, requiring a veritable Tetris game every time a ship was loaded. Anticipatory Package Shipping , 2013.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 20, 2018

It is continually important to be proactive about identifying capacity trends and daily shipping reality. From 2008 until about mid-2017, air cargo had been in a prolonged recession and airlines had taken capacity out of the market – reducing air cargo shipping lanes. Thanks to an increase in ecommerce.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

bound ship is being held ‘hostage’ (Reuters). The fallout from Hanjin’s bankruptcy continues, with $14 billion of cargo still stranded at sea. According to a Reuters report: As of Wednesday, of Hanjin’s 97 container ships, 36 were waiting outside of overseas ports, according to South Korea’s finance ministry.

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Supply Chains Rock

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Cargo ships and cargo planes carrying electronics, paper goods and food all use the same ports, trucks and planes. Did I miss HSBC in the latest AMR/Gartner Top 50 supply chains ? I am not quite sure, which statement is more perplexing. First, the food supply chain and the supply chain are one already.

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Resilinc

APRIL 21, 2016

This is part 1 of a 2-part blog addressing the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) recently enacted ban on the shipment of lithium-ion batteries as cargo consignments on passenger planes and the associated supply chain risks of such provisions.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Stagnation of Air Cargo and Sea Freight Rates. Even though there have been concerted efforts to reverse the downturn experienced in the year 2015, most shipping lines have not succeeded in reversing the trends in supply chain. Air cargo rates will also remain static. Managing Risk. Top 3 Benefits of Driverless Vehicles.

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Freightera

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Semiconductor Shortage: Electric trucks require advanced electronics, and the recent global semiconductor shortage has slowed production (Although it is currently recovering). Unfortunately, batteries for electric trucks can weigh several tons , which means a tricky trade-off between travel range and maximum cargo capacity.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Shippers, beneficial cargo owners or non-vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) are responsible for verifying weights. Shippers are required to communicate verified weights in a shipping document. She has over two decades of sales, marketing and operations experience in the container shipping and logistics industries.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2016

This tremendous growth was driven by freight shipping, which scaled in size but didn’t significantly improve underlying technology, getting bigger, not getting smarter. For example, 26% of the 730 million TEUs shipped annually and approximately 30% of trucks on the road are empty. By 2014, it reached $77 trillion dollars.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 2, 2023

E-commerce sales are higher than in the pre-pandemic period, as are shipping costs. Census Bureau tracks e-commerce within the 'non-store' segment, which includes mail-order houses, vending machine operators, home delivery sales, door-to-door sales, party plan sales, electronic shopping, and sales through portable stalls.

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American Global Logistics

AUGUST 22, 2023

As we navigate the third quarter of 2023, it's time to examine air cargo's role in global commerce. Air cargo is now essential for global supply chains and offers many benefits for businesses worldwide. Air cargo refers to the transportation of goods via an air carrier, which may be charter or commercial.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The path forward for global container shipping. Container shipping has a paper problem, and it’s never been more obvious than in 2020. The pandemic has exposed the shipping industry’s continuing dependence on printed documentation. COVID-19 has put unprecedented strain on the world’s supply chains.

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