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Now is Not the Time to Worry About Freight Rates

Trinity Logistics

percent year-over-year (YOY), being the sharpest increase seen since February 2006, based on the latest figures from Cass Information Systems. The ability to exercise flexibility could be the difference among your competitors, making your shipment easier to cover. FREIGHT MARKET OUTLOOK. Freight rates have jumped 26.6

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Vertical Integration in the Supply Chain: Is it on the Rise?

Logistics Bureau

Horizontal integration has become the go-to value chain strategy over the last two or three decades, to the point where companies that insisted upon remaining vertical became the outliers in a global field of distributed organisations. For Starbucks, vertical integration is a risk mitigation strategy. Ferrero: They Must be Nuts.