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The Definitive Guide to Transportation and Logistics Terminology

GlobalTranz

The following is a list of widely used terms that will help you with deciphering freight bills, articles, comments, and communications made by transportation professionals and the mainstream media about everything transportation. Commodity: Any article of commerce, including raw material, manufactured, or grown products.

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FourKites Visibility 2023: CONNECTED

Logistics Viewpoints

C-Suite Themes For the C-Suite, there are three main themes where supply chains make a definitive impact: increased customer retention, revenue growth, and lower costs. As a result, supply chains continue to be wasteful when looking at time, inefficiencies, and emissions.

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A simple but clear perspective on the notion of Shipping Cartels

Shipping and Freight Resource

Based on this, there seems to be a natural and immediate view that these lines fit the definition of cartel “ A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. I have reproduced the thought provoking article below.

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The Freight Forwarder’s Era: The Top Advantages of Working with a Freight Forwarder

MTS Logistics

Let’s start with some definitions of what a freight forwarder is. In this article, we define five advantages that will transform the future of freight forwarding. Having more capacity as a freight forwarder will present the most competitive offer to the customer, always considering the shipper’s needs, requirements, and goals.

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What Are Order Pickers? [Definition, Types, Pros/Cons, Uses]

Conger

Because this article explains everything you need to know about order pickers, like: What order pickers are What they’re used for All the types (and subtypes) of order pickers Which industries use them? You can learn more about reach trucks in our reach trucks vs. forklifts article. Have you ever wondered: "What are order pickers?"

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What does Corporate Social Responsibility Really Mean?

Logistics Bureau

Article summary. I like to quote the following definition of CSR , offered by Chatham House associate fellow, Paul Hohnen. What does corporate social responsibility really mean? For some companies it means ethical procurement, for others it involves supporting worthy causes. You get the idea.

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

Equally, these anecdotes present the ADF experience as one defined by collective complacency and hubris at a policy level. This series of articles aims to address this gap by showing how logistics problems accumulate and metastasise into operational preparedness shortcomings. What do we know?