Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The number of package flights operated by FedEx Express and UPS significantly declined month over month in July, underscoring how far the overall air cargo market has sunk since the spring of 2022 and the effect of efficiency initiatives the companies have undertaken in response to lower express volumes. Downing St.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This era, and its prosperity, encouraged people to invest in the shipping market, resulting in more and more ships being constructed to meet the extreme demand. Even though supply was not meeting demand, they took a much more conservative approach to adding new vessels to their inventory.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2020

These delays created lines of sometimes up to 31 inbound container ships long waiting their turn to discharge their cargo. The longshoremen began their first course of action with a 24-hour strike last week involving around 200 dockworkers. 3 days to over one week. An early estimate showed that the stalled operations cost the U.S.

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Logistics Manager

APRIL 15, 2020

Cargo thefts from supply chains in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) more than doubled to 8,548 incidents in 2019 and involved losses of product worth well over €137 million, according to the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA). In 2019, the number of incidents rose 114.7% to 8,548 versus 3,981 in 2018.

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 24, 2023

With established carrier relationships in these complex modes, this Team can quote, dispatch, and manage the cargo through transit. We can fully customize a Managed Transportation solution to meet your customer’s unique needs. Most importantly, we offer our Freight Agents the same opportunities as our Team Members.

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 24, 2023

With established carrier relationships in these complex modes, this Team can quote, dispatch, and manage the cargo through transit. We can fully customize a Managed Transportation solution to meet your customer’s unique needs. Most importantly, we offer our Freight Agents the same opportunities as our Team Members.

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Trans Global Auto Logistics

MAY 8, 2018

As the captain of your yacht, houseboat or other type of vessel, you know it’s critical to chart your course correctly when you hit the open waters. Although you won’t be consulting maps and charts, you’ll still need to plot the right course to ensure that your boat is handled properly throughout the process.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So three months after an executive meeting on June 23rd , an updated strategy was released, tracking a radical shift into a slimmer Maersk, focused on providing end-to-end logistics services. The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle. Today, 75 to 80% of cargo arrives on time.

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ShipLilly

OCTOBER 7, 2019

There are many things you have to take into account, such as where your goods are commercialized, meeting where they are going to be sold, and what countries they might pass through on their way to where they will be sold. What is bonded cargo? What is bonded cargo? But what exactly does this have to offer?

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Of course, dangerous goods (aka hazardous materials) is not just limited to lithium-ion batteries; it also includes other classes of materials, such as flammable and combustible liquids, flammable and poisonous gases, radioactive materials, and corrosive substances. (In Even so, there appears to have been a weak link somewhere.).

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MTS Logistics

MAY 27, 2022

Carriers report strong demand on transpacific trade as some lines now restrict contracted businesses they once committed to, in order to accommodate current spot cargo. Of course, we may still experience more factories in Asia not operating at 100 percent capacity, further trucking shortages, port issues, etc. Let’s not forget U.S.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 5, 2021

Due to the previous surge of China as the world’s factory over the last two decades, much of the global carriers’ business has revolved around transporting cargo between the U.S. Of course, it is also critical to apply data across all activities to identify which loads are ripe for the taking. Download the White Paper.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

APRIL 23, 2020

It’s a mega ship of course, or more precisely, an Ultra Large Container Vessel (ULCV). I believe it is vital for us to rebrand ourselves in the course of a huge leap forward in 2020” and added, “Most of our customers and employees will not be confused as the name ‘HMM’ has already been recognised and familiar to the global market ”.

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ShipLilly

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Currently, the Clean Cargo initiative put forth by the Business for Social Responsibility organization is providing data that measures and reports environmental performance for ocean carriers, specifically reporting CO2 emissions. Clean Cargo has calculated thy since the year 2015, there has been a 9.6% Industry standards.

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Airfreight Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

His years of experience in international emergency aid response, organizing cargo airlifts, and last-mile humanitarian aid is helping Volga-Dnepr to becoming one of the premier air carriers in this sector. Carriers will often receive cargo from the airport cargo handling agent and work with the customer to prepare the shipment for carriage.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

That can make it difficult to meet your delivery times unless you take proactive steps now to minimize the risk in your supply chain. There may be instances where you will have to work more closely with carriers and book further in advance to ensure you can meet critical deliveries. Peak season for ocean freight shipping is underway.

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Airfreight Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

After a construction phase of eleven months, cargo-partner are celebrating the official opening of their iLogistics Center near Ljubljana Airport with a gala dinner. The new iLogistics Center is the largest logistics complex of the cargo-partner group.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 9, 2021

The most famous shortage, of course, was the toilet paper shortage, which was really more about a shift in usage and panic buying than production. However, UPS said it has loosened the deadlines on its next-afternoon air deliveries to make it easier to meet its service commitments without being penalized.

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ShipLilly

APRIL 7, 2021

One of the effects of this situation is that cargo ships are losing an increasing number of containers overboard. To meet the demand, shipping companies are stacking large quantities of cargo on increasingly narrow equipment. This can be seen when the ships start to sway or even topple as they are piled high with cargo.

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Forto

MARCH 17, 2020

How do we at FreightHub meet this Corona challenge and what measures have we taken to support our customers? Thanks to meeting apps like Zoom, we can hold our regular meetings via video chat and exchange information as usual. What communication strategy should logistics companies rely on in times of crisis?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Of course, there can be no stronger motivation than legislation, but money comes a very close second, and the potential cost savings offered by the circular supply chain are substantial. No longer do the large, beneficial cargo owners have an overwhelming advantage in global supply chain operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

Cargo ships avoiding Houthi attacks in the Red Sea face a different kind of delay-causing threat as they go around the southern tip of Africa: storms and 30-foot swells. Vessels are expected to seek shelter/alter their course to avoid the impacted areas,” Maersk, the world’s No. 2 container carrier, said in an advisory.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

APRIL 27, 2020

Carbon emissions, of course, was not the reason the Panama Canal came into existence. The first Panama Canal pilot was Captain John Constantine who piloted the SS Ancon , an American cargo and passenger ship that became the first ship to officially transit the Panama Canal in 1914. Big vessels are forbidden to meet in this area.

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Airfreight Logistics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Mr. Glyn Hughes, Global Head of Cargo at IATA. IATA is uniquely positioned to help guide and advise the industry on key issues and for this reason is why we were privileged to speak with Mr. Glyn Hughes, Global Head of Cargo at IATA about what he foresees for the airfreight market moving forward. The Digitalization Movement.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

Air cargo providers had a very good year in 2017. Bruce Chan , an air cargo institutional investment analyst with Stifel Capital Markets; Brandon Fried , president of the AirForwarders Association ; and Skip Dokken, a consultant with London-based Drewry Supply Chain Advisors. What will be its impact on air cargo operations?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 15, 2021

Of course, the coronavirus pandemic is shifting things as it is doubtful Girl Scouts will be going door-to-door or setting up outside of shopping centers this year. The company is developing a new line of luxury and commercial models to meet what it sees as fast-growing demand for battery-powered vehicles.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

But, of course, with so many cases in such a vastly populated nation, the risk of a new variant emerging to start the whole cycle over again cannot be underestimated. At the same time, MSC has boosted its cargo capacity massively through a shipbuilding program that will add over 100 new vessels to its already colossal fleet.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 22, 2022

From 2009 he became MD of one of the leading air and sea cargo forwarders in Austria and had the Regional Director role for Central Eastern Europe. CG: At WOF SUMMIT, networking is not just having a coffee with another interesting participant but is powered by the innovative 1to1 Meeting Scheduler.

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Dedola Global Logistics

AUGUST 3, 2017

This includes collecting duties and taxes, and ensuring dangerous or suspect cargo doesn’t come into the country. They also focus on protecting international supply chains and cargo from global threats, such as terrorism. The Criteria a Certified Freight Forwarder Must Meet. What Is C-TPAT?

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MARCH 17, 2020

Cyber technologies have become essential and critical not just to the operation and management of numerous systems and processes on board ships but also for the safety, security and protection of the ship, the crew, the cargo, and the marine environment.

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3PL Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Employees are required to attend proper safety training as well as regular security and safety meetings to improve awareness. If cargo needs to be stored while being transported, store hazardous materials in a secure facility. Drivers should be trained on reducing theft and keeping cargo secured.

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Freight Center

DECEMBER 19, 2019

People often assume carriers function as movers or that the friendly driver will pick up or deliver your cargo inside your business’s front door. Of course, some of the more common billing adjustments come from weight and freight class reclassifications. Freight packaging is in a world of its own and for good reason.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 28, 2022

Without having an overview of the location and status of inventory, or the ability to forecast customer demand to prepare for a surge in sales, businesses could not react quickly enough and plan the right course of action. Additionally, products were stranded at sea on cargo ships due to maritime mobility issues. In the U.S.,

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The wave of congestion that is sweeping through global supply chains delaying deliveries of seasonal goods and essential commodities, stranding many shippers between meeting impossible delivery deadlines while paying record shipping rates is not set to subside anytime soon.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The challenge, of course, is finding the right balance — that is, figuring out how to meet peak demand volumes without building out a network that goes under-utilized the remaining 11 months of the year. Maybe they’ll do better in 2018.

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Freight Center

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

With the fluctuations in this complex business, shippers everywhere find it harder to meet their shipping goals and get the right solutions for their supply chains. A TMS also has tracking capabilities so shippers and 3PLs can monitor the progress of their cargo. The freight shipping industry is constantly changing.

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GoShip Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The logistics industry constantly evolves to meet the ever-changing demands of today’s global economy. Of course, this price increase will result in costlier logistics services, which could lead to a spike in operational expenses. Meeting the customer’s expectations for delivery time is vital to retaining loyalty.

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