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Supply Chain Shock Waves: Strategies for Survival and Success with Mark Baxa and John Delgado

The Logistics of Logistics

Mark Baxa , John Delgado and Joe Lynch discuss supply chain shock waves: strategies for survival and success. Under John’s leadership, the company has established itself as a key player in the global freight forwarding sector. He also co-leads the St.

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A Crash Course on Navigating Trends in Trucking and Freight for 2018

GlobalTranz

As a result, shippers across the globe are looking for ways to keep up with the Amazon’s unrelenting approach, and these trends in trucking and freight reflect a few of the key ways shippers, third-party logistics providers and truckers will respond 2018. Freight Forwarding Will Undergo Digital Transformation.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

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. Finally, we’ll explore the potential impact (and coping tactics) for existing forwarders. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping.

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Is Freight Digitalization Still An Existential Threat?

Freightos

This year alone, Maersk has accelerated its direct-to-shipper strategy, digital forwarders have raised massive rounds (like Flexport’s billion-dollar injection), and platforms for forwarders and carriers – big and small – have continued to pop up almost daily, at least that’s how it seems. We concur with this view.

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When it Comes to Ocean Shipping, We Have to See Beyond Today’s Squalls and Plan for the Long Term

Logistics Viewpoints

When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. 1 carrier stopping its dealings with even a portion of the world’s freight forwarders?

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Freight Professionals “Want to Change Supply Chain Strategies Post-Covid” Says Survey

Logistics Business Magazine

Shipping and freight professionals want to change their supply chain strategies post-Covid, according to a recent survey. Answered by over 300 Shipping and Freight Professionals across the world, the survey brought out some key indicators that will inform the future course of global supply chains. Find more details here.

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Logistics marketing: Everything you need to know

LoGo

The logistics segment is full of opportunities and, of course, competition. Freight forwarders, customs brokers, shipping companies and all the other businesses operating in this field need to build strategies to stand out from competition and accomplish positive results.