Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

If you’ve attended any logistics conferences lately, or just tried covering a load in recent weeks, you know that the tide is turning in the transportation market. Will these trends continue in 2018? Capacity is tightening and rates are going up. What impact will the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) mandate have on the market?

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Radius Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Last month, several members of our team attended the in.sight conference in Nashville, Tennessee. This is a conference put on by TMW, the manufacturers of our ERP system, and is attended by over 2000 people from across North America. The cost to attend these conferences may not be small, but the payback is well worth the investment.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 20, 2018

The focus of our session is “Today’s New Normal” — a discussion about emerging trends and technologies in the industry, everything from e-commerce to blockchain, and what it means for supply chain and logistics professionals. I just have to figure out what to do during the other half of the day. I think Alexa would agree.

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Freightera

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Freightera’s CEO, Eric Beckwitt Gives His Predictions on The Trends in Sustainability in 2024. Although interest rates are widely predicted to fall in 2024, and the freight recession may end, the multi-decade trend of moving manufacturing overseas, especially to China, may be largely over.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference 2019. Another is that visibility enables companies to deliver an enhanced customer experience, which was the theme of this year’s conference. Customs Info in 2014, MK Data Services in 2015 and Datamyne in 2016). Keegan McCready, Sr.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2018

From May 2016 through the end of August 2017, “17 CEOs of public Big Food manufacturers and retailers had departed, or announced their intention to,” according to an article published last September in Fortune. The theme of the conference was “Go Boldly Together.” Nulogy xChange 2018: Why Courage is So Important Today.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Our European Supply Chain Summit is tailored to equip supply chain executives with insights into the latest supply chain trends, including real-time monitoring, supply chain management, demand planning, and AI implementation into the supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 19, 2018

Intel is another example of a company that is leveraging its supply chain and logistics capabilities and expertise to drive top-line growth, increase market share, and enhance customer loyalty.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 19, 2018

Still, if you had ocean freight in 2016, the memory of the bankruptcy of the Hanjin shipping line may linger in your mind. As was the case last year, there remain serious questions about the viability of the carrier conferences. The bankruptcy certainly put some shippers in a difficult spot.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

If we look at year-over-year growth rates, we’re going to go essentially no growth in the sector from 2015 and 2016 to 2.8% The post ATA reports lower truck tonnage readings but overall trends are solid appeared first on 24/7 Customs Broker News. It was a year ago when freight began to surge. September 18, 2018.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The first batch of containers was accepted in May 2016, with the final batch coming off the assembly line in June 2016, well ahead of the contracted delivery date. 16] Department of Defence 2016, Defence Industry Policy Statement, Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, p 19. [17] When Defence made mobilisation an agenda.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Then in December 2016, one of the my predictions for 2017 was that “The Migration from Traditional User Interfaces to Chatbots and Virtual Assistants Begins.”. A TMS user, for example, can say to the system, “Show me all uncovered loads,” or an inventory manager can ask, “Which stores have less than three days inventory of product X?”

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Conferences and expos are a chance for you to hear from the industry’s top players, and most importantly, build relationships with other freight shipping professionals. As a freight broker, you know the importance of staying ahead of trends in your business. Read the Full Article Here. . Get the White Paper Here. 29 and Jan.

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Freightera

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We collaborated with Climate Change—The New Economy in London and Eric Beckwitt, Freightera’s CEO, wrote the Green Future for Freight thought leadership article for the 2016 G7 Summit. It’s great to see that freight electrification is a trend well beyond the COP23 Climate Conference discussions.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 6, 2017

Investors are certainly betting that “the future belongs to networked companies,” as Infor CEO Charles Phillips said last July at the company’s user conference. One More Prediction for 2016: Blockchain Technology Will Make Its Debut in Supply Chain Management. What about you? The Network Effect in Supply Chain and Logistics.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

The impact of the Central Motor Vehicle Rules (CMVR) regulation, which was introduced in 2016 and limits the length of road-based car carrier equipment, also means that an alternative mode is necessary to take the pressure off capacity constraints now impacting the 15,000-plus car transporter fleet in the country.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 24, 2018

s annual Supply Chain Executive Conference held last week in Phoenix, AZ provided the platform for the release of its Supply Chain Top 25, which identifies industry “best practices.”. ” ROA: (2017 net income/2017 total assets)*50% + (2016 net income/2016 total assets)*30% + (2015 net income/2015 total assets)*20%.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 18, 2018

And according to speakers at this week’s Automotive Logistics China conference , the opportunities for the increasingly sophisticated and high-tech domestic market are as good as those for carmakers, including VW and Tesla, which will be able to hold more than 50% of local ventures.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 15, 2018

It is especially relevant to participants of the Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference and others elsewhere. Much is made of the trends in e-commerce and the influence on the supply chain. What are the trends from the retail/private sector that will have applicability in the military sector?

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Logistics Manager

MAY 1, 2018

However, with the abolishment of the conference system and as carriers began sharing space on vessels, carrier services and offerings became narrower in scope. This is part of an overall trend we’ve seen with carriers looking to cut costs. It’s not hard to see why carriers have been placing such an emphasis on cost savings.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 29, 2019

The trend toward greater customisation within the vehicle is also a logistics challenge as vehicle configurations become more complex and complicate the traditional fixed bill of materials. For volume shipments of its cars, Wang said Nio would use trucks conforming to the latest regulation on size and quality, known as GB1589 (2016).

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

It’s true that those terms are too often discussed in theoretical platitudes in conference sessions and white papers. As McCrea reports, the company’s first offering was a travel mug that hit Starbucks shelves in 2016 and sold out within weeks.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 6, 2018

As reported by The Verge , Wing’s biggest drone-delivery rival Amazon has been testing “Prime Air” drone deliveries in the UK since 2016. An attempt by Wing to deliver Starbucks in the US was wound down after a couple of months , while Amazon has been quiet since its delivery of sunscreen to a robotics conference in 2017.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

Still, if you had ocean freight in 2016, the memory of the bankruptcy of the Hanjin shipping line may linger in your mind. As was the case last year, there remain serious questions about the viability of the carrier conferences. The bankruptcy certainly put some shippers in a difficult spot.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

Air drone regulationsare stipulated in the Air Navigation Order 2016 (ANO 2016), which was recently amended in light of an incident at London Gatwick Airport, in which hundreds of flights were cancelled following sightings of a drone. The exclusion zone around UK airports was subsequently extended from 1km (0.6 miles) to 5km.

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The Logistics Academy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Over the course of 2016, real revenue and volume growth in the air and sea freight forwarding markets was remarkably similar globally, but this disguises significant differences across important countries and regions, say analysts who keep a close eye on the market. The global freight forwarding market has grown by 2.7% A&A Rank.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Working at a logistics startup means attending a lot of logistics and freight conferences, most with the same technology panels talking about the same technology again and again. Setting aside the critical importance of trust for a moment, let’s take a look at trends in enabling data movement.

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Freightera

JANUARY 10, 2017

As this trend continues there will be less room in the market for highly expensive, inefficient, highly polluting transport companies. This trend will accelerate in 2017. The post 8 Green Freight Trends to Watch in 2017 appeared first on Freightera Blog.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

“Strong results for air freight, container shipping and export orders in particular suggest that, while the trade recovery may moderate in due course, it will likely continue in the coming months and remain above trend,” the report says. He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif.,

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

The biggest parts supplier operating in Turkey is Bosch, with revenue of $901m in 2016, largely derived from locally produced brake systems, according to figures published by the country’s investment agency. Parts worth $1.4 billion left the country in 2018, up from $1.2 billion in 2017, according to OSD figures.

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Freightera

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In 2016, the science publication Nature noted that air pollution from ocean freight shipping, specifically nitrous oxides, sulfur oxides and particulate matter, was causing the premature deaths of 60,000 people worldwide. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 8.3 percent of the children in the U.S. have asthma.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

We saw that starting to turn around in 2016 and continued to accelerate into 2017," he notes. However, members of the shippers and providers panel at the CSCMP press conference stressed that the tradeoff is a welcome improvement to safety now that drivers cannot cheat on their logbooks. Kearney and co-author of the report. "In

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 24, 2018

of them driving around it, making it the second largest in China for vehicle numbers behind Beijing – and it was to Chengdu that delegates headed last week for this year’s Automotive Logistics China conference. Glass said between 2016 and 2020, global lithium-ion battery production capacity would increase by 521%.

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 20, 2018

The finished vehicle logistics sector needs to find better ways to communicate and collaborate to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, delegates at this year’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference in California were told in March. Marcus Williams reports.

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 20, 2018

The finished vehicle logistics sector needs to find better ways to communicate and collaborate to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, delegates at this year’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference in California were told in March. Marcus Williams reports.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 25, 2019

this year, delegates were told at this week’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference. Peterson suggested that the US market had reached a peak for passenger cars and light trucks, with this year’s forecast running a little under the 17m sales reached during 2016-2017.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 25, 2019

this year, delegates were told at yesterday’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference. Peterson suggested that the US market had reached a peak for passenger cars and light trucks, with this year’s forecast running a little under the 17m sales reached during 2016-2017.

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