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Knowledge is power – Start managing your cargo shipments actively

Global Trade Management

I am talking about real time information that is coming directly from the cargo, for instance a sea freight container. One platform, one dashboard Based in the heart of Switzerland arviem is about to be a melting pot for global cargo monitoring. Let’s call this information knowledge.

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The Beginning of the Beginning: A Progress Report on the Digitisation of Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

An indication for this belief is the level of fundraising reached by digital players like Flock Freight, a trucking platform and project44, a supply chain visibility platform, which reached US$113.5 Prior to La Poste, he was Head of Eastern European and Mediterranean Regions, and Country General Manager Switzerland at TNT.

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The decrease of air freight, an opportunity for commercial airlines?

KEPLER Consulting

Air freight : situation and players. It is a bad time for air freight. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) attributes this decline to rising kerosene prices, Sino-American trade tensions and protests in Hong Kong – forcing world’s first cargo airport to shut down temporarily.

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How Blockchain Could Create the 'Autonomous Container'

Supply Chain Brain

The technology features chips that monitor temperature and humidity within a 500-meter range of an air-freight container. Smart Containers is preparing an initial coin offering (ICO) to support its use of blockchain for air-freight container monitoring. Where there’s a blockchain, a cryptocurrency can’t be far behind.

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Logistics & Supply Chain News Roundup, January 2023

Logistics Bureau

Pilot Freight Services’ purchase of LTL company American Linehaul Corp. However, as the ocean freight environment has changed in the wake of the COVID pandemic and as a response to the current recession and inflation issues , the two companies agreed it was in their interests to exit the arrangement when the prescribed ten-year term expired.

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Deutsche Telekom and arviem AG launch M2M partnership

Global Trade Management

Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. Deutsche Telekom AG today signed a nearly double-digit million euro contract with leading cargo monitoring service provider arviem AG of Switzerland. Cargo monitoring is crucially important for many companies if they are to remain competitive. March 21, 2013. Stefan Reidy.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. It started in 1969 as DHL Air Cargo, and by the late 1970s, the company had expanded its operations and offered services throughout the world. Kuehne + Nagel Inc.