GlobalTranz

JANUARY 20, 2015

We believe they are worthy of discussion in 2015 as they are more pressing than ever as competition continues to heat up with current incumbents and the growing competition from start ups. The Cerasis “e-commerce” blog category has great articles on developing your strategy. Differentiation.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Short Term Medium Term Special Feature Carriers & Cargo Innovation Freightos focus November 2015 freight and logistics trends that rate. China’s slowing economy is generally bad news for the freight industry. As we noted last month, most articles are rightly focusing on the negative. Keep reading. Or is there?

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

We continue our "Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015.So As you can see, or if you work in the industry, you know that all five of these categories and the functions and processes around them are central to each other. Like the logistics and manufacturing blog posts, the supply chain blog posts featured below are all also written in 2015.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Suppliers of steel fabrication and metal working equipment and technology are looking forward to a significant rise in demand from the region’s resurgent construction sector, one of the key demand drivers for the fabrication industry. Look for the steel fabrication industry to want to add capacity to gear up for the unexpected.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 27, 2015

On April 18, 2015, the National Motor Freight Traffic Assocation® has amended the NMFC rules regarding the required time frames for reporting concealed freight damage. Recall our previous conversation on how the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the transportation management services industry.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 15, 2015

o, also referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In today’s post we will talk about what is Industry 4.0, Industry 4.0: The Fourth Industrial Revolution. So what is “industry 4.0?” According to Accenture, they define Industry 4.0 The core of Digital Industry 4.0 Revolution.

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 6, 2025

While considering a few topics for this article, I initially planned to focus on a more technical and industry-specific issue. Since 2015, Maersk and MSC had been operating under the 2M Alliance, which has now been terminated, causing a major shift in global shipping operations.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 13, 2015

DECEMBER 2015. In just one day (30 November) there were at least 13 articles breaking down what it means for for Serbia , Africa , North East Asia , and the whole world , with a variety of perspectives from the railway , maritime , political affairs , financial , capital and gadget press. Freight Rates News.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

we used the U.S’s share of estimated iPhone sales for the three months to Feb 2015. For how many iPhones a 747 can carry, we used the logistics industry’s consultant’s estimate in the Bloomberg article (we got a little fancy in applying a ratio to account for changes in packaged phone dimensions and weight). REQUEST BETA ACCESS.

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 21, 2020

Tanker endorsement is one of those regulations that often get some buzz in the trucking industry for CDL holders. All states began enforcing this regulation in July 2015. . The FMSCA finally pushed a hard deadline of July 2015 for enforcing the law. What is it? Why is it needed? When did this become enforced?

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 21, 2020

Tanker endorsement is one of those regulations that often get some buzz in the trucking industry for CDL holders. All states began enforcing this regulation in July 2015. The FMSCA finally pushed a hard deadline of July 2015 for enforcing the law. What is it? Why is it needed? When did this become enforced? Where is it Enforced?

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 26, 2015

a provider of integrated material handling and storage systems for industrial operations, is the first post in which we will have a few blog posts on robotics, jobs, and how millennials figure into the future of manufacturing. This post is chock full of great statistics and other great articles to discover around these subjects.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

This article is from Scott Mullins, EVP of Operations and COO at Lucas Systems, and looks at self-distribution in healthcare systems. In this article we will explore four factors that must be thoroughly evaluated. To read the full article, click HERE. Their picking accuracy actually increased to 100%.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2020

In 2015 union-organized strikes on the U.S. shipping industry – they managed to upset supply chains all around the world. Now, five years after the strikes took place, the shipping industry is still seeing some residual effects. Needless to say, it was a devastating blow to the industry. 3 days to over one week.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In a single day in 2015, Alibaba handled an average of $9.9 That’s one and a half million dollars of sales in the time it took to read this article’s first sentence. According to Adobe research, total US online spend on Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2015 hit a paltry $5.8 By Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 29, 2015

The manufacturing industry is undergoing steady growth and momentum as economic activity continues to expand. Here’s a look at 3 areas for forward-thinking organizations to consider: Industrial Internet of Things. So what are some ways manufacturers can increase warehouse safety – both now and in the future? Automation.

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3PL Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The American Trucking Association is the largest trade association representing the trucking industry in the U.S. This article shares details on the Truck Tonnage Index, how the data reflects the overall economy, and other ways to interpret the data. Data Collection. The ATA states that 72.5%

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

And on the subject of sustainability, SCDigest.com covered Walmart’s 2015 Sustainability report : Walmart, the world’s largest corporation, is fresh out with its 2015 sustainability report, the eighth such document it has produced. restaurant industry made in 2013. ” Walmart states early on.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Listen to what Peter Diamandis had to say in a recent article featured in Inc. Plus, entrepreneurs now have access to a huge amount of capital–from VCs and the angel community as well as crowdfunding, which is expected to reach $15 billion in 2015. “The ability to build a business has gotten easier and cheaper.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MARCH 8, 2022

The global supply chain and specifically the ocean freight industry and ports and terminals have gone through a very trying and tough time in the last two years. Starting with COVID-19 which was the genesis of the unprecedented supply chain disruption, the industry has seen many issues, especially at the US ports.

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Freightos

AUGUST 19, 2024

Shipsta’s expertise, built on deep industry knowledge and outstanding technology, has transformed freight tendering for importers and exporters, making Shipsta the perfect complement to our platform. It’s a truly better global freight industry that ultimately reduces supply chain costs, improves speed and agility, and keeps goods moving.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In 2015 shipping carriers universally adopted the DIM weight pricing formula, which factors both a package’s dimensions and its weight into account. When a package’s volume exceeds a certain size in proportion to its weight, (meaning that it’s not very dense) it may be subject to DIM weight pricing. What is DIM Weight?

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

What is Manufacturing Day 2015? Manufacturing Day 2015 is an opportunity for manufacturers to highlight their work and their workers and to energize a future pipeline of skilled workers. Seeing what happens to a community when such an important industry shuts down in a small town really pushed me into making this film.

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MTS Logistics

JUNE 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic was a major disruptor for the global shipping industry. It took thirteen quarters for global trade to fully recover from the 2015 Chinese stock market crash. Demand for goods plummeted as nations locked down and individuals began to quarantine. This rapid of a recovery is unprecedented in recent times.

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The Lean Thinker

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Background: I wrote an article appearing in the current (October 2017) issue of AME Target Magazine (page 20) that profiles two very different organizations that have both seen really positive shifts in their culture. Copyright © 2015, Mark Rosenthal. Mark’s Word Quibble. Rounding vs. Visiting. Fed from The Lean Thinker.

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Morai Logistics

APRIL 5, 2018

The Canadian supply chain and logistics industry foresees a promising future integrating robotics and automation into their processes. In 2015, the value of Canadian robotics reached $201 million in orders, with an annual growth rate of 32% between 2010 and 2015. Canadian Robotics Industry. Personal and Service Robots.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This will allow the industry to “close the gap” caused by demand for freight, projected retirements and other issues. The industry is raising pay at five times the historic average, but this isn’t just a pay issue. “The

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

million truck drivers in the country (as of 2015), but a new report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the number of long-haul truck drivers somewhere between 1.87 Here are some excerpts from her article : BLS researchers parsed agency data on U.S. The American Trucking Association says there are 3.5 million and 2.125 million.

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10xLogistics

JULY 18, 2015

A while back I wrote about how I thought executives in the trucking industry were getting dangerously close to collusion as they discussed capacity in the industry. A line from that article: "A trigger may have been the June meeting. The DOJ has never really looked at the trucking industry because it was so fragmented.

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Mazars Ledger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

This article was originally published by Progressive Grocer on September 25, 2015. Click here to view original article. When Congress passed… The post The Food Safety Modernization Act – The Future is Now appeared first on Insights Center - Mazars - United States.

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10xLogistics

JANUARY 7, 2018

On July 18, 2015 I wrote a blog post entitled: DOJ Investigates Airlines - Are the Trucking Companies Next? At that time I had just read an article about the DOJ investigating the airlines concerning collusion on capacity and ticket pricing (The original article was on Bloomberg News and titled: What Does it Take to Prove Airline Collusion ).

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GlobalTranz

JULY 6, 2015

Rethink Robotics introduced Sawyer in 2015 and pioneered the “friendly” robot game with the introduction of Baxter in 2012, which will make the integration of human workers and robots seamless. Furthermore, newer robots have more applications as they may be repurposed to meet the needs of the manufacturing and logistics industry.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

Since the collapse of the housing market and the economy in 2008, the freight transportation industry has managed to claw its way out of a damaging situation and maintain historically low trucking rates. However, the industry stands on the verge of a rate-hike cliff. What’s Driving the Trucking Rates Increase? Driver Expenses.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

Alfa Industrial, a leading engineering solutions provider, told us how you can save money by building a new floor within your warehouse. Increase in speed of workflow By increasing the amount of space available for your employees to work in, Alfa Industrial say, you can improve the workflow in your facility.

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ShipLilly

MAY 11, 2021

For those outside of the industry, the fragility of the global ocean freight network came as a bit of a surprise. Several unprecedented global challenges have placed significant pressure on the shipping industry. This article examines the underlying causes of congestion as one of the key challenges facing the industry.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As we close the year of 2015, we want to take a look at some manufacturing trends for 2016. The Internet’s large-scale global penetration has spawned an increasingly large number of technology and web-savvy consumers, creating a huge opportunity for both industrial manufacturers and their end customers. E-Commerce for Manufacturing.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 6, 2016

In today's post, we take some time to reflect on the history of American manufacturing innovations and the trends that will define the future of our industry. . We still have a long way to go, but this industry deserves a google alert on the ole' browser. . And then 2015 showed up. 3D Printing. The Internet of Things.

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