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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

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Happag-Lloyd will track all their container shipments. The world’s fleet consists of approximately 6,000 ships. These ships carried nearly 150 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers last year. These ships carried nearly 150 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers last year.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

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When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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FourKites Ocean Visibility: A Next Generation Solution

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When it comes to real-time visibility, the market is becoming more important and more robust than ever before. Billions of venture capital dollars of investment are being poured into companies that can integrate real-time visibility data with transportation to provide a more informed ETA for shippers and carriers.

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The Counter to Constant Supply Chain Volatility Is Pervasive Visibility and Industry Collaboration

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If you’re Home Depot, you reserve an entire ship for your own exclusive use. Real-time transportation visibility platforms tell shippers and their broker/carrier partners where their freight is at any point on its journey. And what is sitting in the warehouse. And in the rail car. But we have to go further.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Gathers Steam

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Working with a strong supply chain technology provider with a holistic digital operating platform is key. In many organizations, freight shipping has become static: companies use air cargo because that’s what they’ve always done. This eliminates repositioning empty boxes – quite literally, shipping air.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 20 – 26)

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billion ‘Green Gateway’ rail expansion The CrowdStrike software bug that crashed Microsoft operating systems and caused the largest IT outage in history caused disruptions at U.S. Planes sitting around too long may need software or other updates. And they present a host of logistical challenges. That’s all for this week.

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o9 Solutions and FourKites partner to bring unprecedented connectivity between freight visibility and planning Control Towers

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This article has also been published on Business Wire The partnership combines o9’s industry-leading integrated business planning platform with FourKites’ Visibility Cloud to provide end-to-end visibility to freight tracking. This enables them to do more work with less labor.