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Peak Time or Holiday Shipping: Strategies & Tips to Stay Sane, Mitigate Extra Costs, & Keep Customers Happy

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. We lose valuable transit days with shipments when carriers aren’t moving freight. Truckload Holiday Shipping.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

bans exports by Oregon freight-forwarder in warning shot to industry Container losses fall to record low Warehouse wages rise to average of $18.99 An Oregon freight-forwarder was hit with an export ban in what officials said was a warning to companies to heed restrictions on the shipment of sensitive technologies to countries the U.S.

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Peak Time or Holiday Shipping: Strategies & Tips to Stay Sane, Mitigate Extra Costs, & Keep Customers Happy

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. We lose valuable transit days with shipments when carriers aren’t moving freight. Truckload Holiday Shipping.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Cargo ships lost 661 containers at sea in 2022, down from the 15-year average of 1,566 lost per year, according to the latest figures from the World Shipping Council (WSC). Some major ocean carriers have also announced new fees for goods shipped on the route as of June 1 in response to the canal restrictions.

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A Complete Breakdown of the 26th State of Logistics Report

GlobalTranz

Motor carrier transportation cost for 2014 was approximately $702 billion, and an additional $10 billion was found to exist within costs related to shipping. Ultimately, less space to store goods, which haven’t been purchased and shipped yet, results in higher cost of storage. percent in 2013 to 8.3 percent in 2014. Managing Capacity.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 25-29, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation (TechCrunch). CX North America Adds Replay Technology to Its Freight Visibility Solutions. Target Restock leverages Target’s store network to get digital orders packed and shipped swiftly. [It] Ford and Lyft Sign Driverless-Car Agreement (WSJ – sub.

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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

As we move into the back half of May, the freight market is starting to show signs of an expedited rebound. . Th ese conditions have caused a more favorable freight environment. That is e specially the case for outbound freight in southern states and California where produce season is in full swing. . Logistics? ? .

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