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Truck Capacity Shortage: The Past, Present and Future

Talking Logistics

Market Review: Past, Present and Future. The past, present and future market forces causing today’s extreme truck capacity shortage include: Strong Economy. Intermodal transportation is another way to secure additional capacity, and is especially useful if time is not of the essence and your distance is longer. Holiday Season.

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The importance of cyber security risk management in shipping

Shipping and Freight Resource

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. What is cyber security and cyber security risk.?? Communication systems.

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DFB Tech Stack: Invoice Reconciliation

Parade

Freight brokers and 3PLs are exposed to risks on both the buy and sell sides: Depending on the supply chain, the process can involve multiple intermediaries: shipping lines, trucking companies, and charter companies, in addition to insurance firms and, of course, the customer who winds up receiving the goods.

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LTL Freight Rates: Using data to improve annual contract negotiations

FreightWaves SONAR

With the proper use of data and freight analytics , contract procurement and securing capacity can be enhanced. During times of high freight market volatility in the supply chain, data-driven decisions and fact-based analytics must be seriously considered in order to mitigate unexpected occurrences to secure contract procurement.

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How IoT Brings Railway Efficiency to Dutch Rail Network

IoT World Today

Of course, you can build more tracks and there are places in the Netherlands where it would be easy to do this, but in areas like the Randstad conurbation, where extra capacity is needed most, it’s going to be difficult,” said Pier Eringa, CEO of ProRail in an article on the railway’s efforts to boost capacity and speed. million in 2017 to 3.7

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The Past, Present, and Future of Technology in the Warehouse

Logistics Bureau

That’s probably one of the first differences you’d notice between a warehouse of today and that of 25-plus years ago—and of course it’s down to technology. There’s another supervisor, and another over there, although you can hardly see her for all the operatives moving among the pick faces in that aisle.

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MD of Eagle Eye Networks talks cloud-based security

Logistics Business Magazine

Video surveillance of logistics properties is about security – and a great deal more besides. He offers a vision of security throughout the supply chain enabled by cloud surveillance. All very ground-breaking – but we all know that security cameras are very often switched off or malfunctioning, don’t we?