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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. Transportation visibility is clearly not only for trucks.

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Is your freight invoice accurate? A new study claims it might not be.

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

But what is even more complicated is freight billing and handling freight payments: what a cargo owner is initially quoted is often different from what he later is asked to pay. A 2021 Cargo Owners and freight forwarders survey, confirms this. Shipping freight across the world is a complex matter. Lack of trust.

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The Best Explanation for the Supply Chain Crisis Yet

Logistics Viewpoints

As Asia-Pacific production ramped up, competition was on to source the scarce goods and to get access to the limited transportation capacity available to move these goods to their destinations. When there’s more demand than supply, prices go up, as we saw in previous months with record -high prices for ocean and air cargo moves.

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Current State of International Transportation Industry – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Our vision at TRAMES, is to reduce global trade barriers through digitalizing international freight and transportation. a) Across the various actors in any single transport chain. Beneficial Cargo Owners) to conduct International Freight in their very-own environment, powered by TRAMES’ technology. What TRAMES Aims to Tackle.

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Information Sharing Communities for Digitally Enabled Supply Chain Visibility – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Especially where multi-modal transport is necessary, and where dynamic decision making is required for the routing of goods in-transit. port authorities and terminal operators, regulatory bodies, and Beneficial Cargo Owners (BCO) are all working on this topic. Supply chain operations can be complex.

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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

alternate sourcing strategies), while others are potentially negative (e.g. Emerging technologies play a role in managing disruption and are driving change in the transportation and logistics industries. All of these come together in some way with autonomous transportation options. the daily delivery of packages to our homes).

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Supply Chain Impacts from Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, Volkswagen is halting production at two electric vehicle plants in Germany as a result of interruptions of components sourced from Ukraine. The country’s major service export sectors include air transport; business, professional, and technical services; sea transport, and information services. Beyond Fossil Fuels.

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