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4 industry executives look into the future of global supply chains

Shipping and Freight Resource

The supply chain industry has also been affected severely. There has been a massive drop in cargo volumes, congestion both on land and at sea, job losses etc, although ironically this is one of the industries that has and is helping to fight this pandemic by ensuring the movement of essential goods like medical supplies, food and PPE.

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Understanding the ATA Trucking Tonnage Index

3PL Insights

The American Trucking Association is the largest trade association representing the trucking industry in the U.S. The ATA creates the tonnage index through a series of surveys of its members. The current base year is 2015, meaning from 2015 to the present day, truck tonnage has increased by 9.8%. Data Collection.

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Top Trends in Freight Forwarder Digitization

Freightos

The transformation of a tech giant and the freight industry’s current process of digitization share some key principles: whether selling AI tools and consulting or freight, the ability to adopt new technologies by listening to what customers want can be key to any transformation. For previous years’ reports: 2015 , 2017 , 2018.

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Dock Delays and Detention are a Big Issue

Trinity Logistics

Over the last 18 months, the trucking industry has faced uneven supply and demand, congested ports, rising costs, a global pandemic, labor shortages, and a boom in online consumer spending. While loading dock wait times have plagued the industry for years, recent woes have worsened them. Dock delays and detention.

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The Circular Supply Chain: A Push for Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

The SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030 and are included in a UN Resolution called the 2030 Agenda. In a survey on returns management, I explored which sustainability practices organizations used when it came to returns. Per our survey, 64.2

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This Week in Logistics News (April 29 – May 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

6 River Systems was founded in 2015 and developed an Autonomous Mobile Robot product called ‘Chuck’ that provides automated assistance to pickers in a warehouse, working collaboratively with human operators. Shopify will receive stock representing a 13% equity interest in Flexport, on top of its existing equity interest.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

billion in 2015. Women working as truckers face a host of challenges in a traditionally male-dominated industry, the majority of whom say they’ve experienced discrimination on the job. Tomé, the chief executive officer at UPS, in the release. The company is selling Coyote for $775 million less than the purchase price.