Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

By Pascal Chandler (pictured), business consultant at cloud-based accountancy software bluQube The pandemic, Brexit, ongoing geopolitical conflicts, and rising inflation have placed unprecedented pressure on the global logistics industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

ITR Economics analysis shows rising and unmet demand for electric power from sustainability initiatives, coupled with the proliferation of data center construction ($27.3 For example, the global logistics automation market is expected to grow from $50 billion in 2023 to $120 billion by 2030, according to Allied Market Research.

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Freightos

APRIL 27, 2023

In this article, Eytan Buchman, Freightos’ CMO, discusses the importance of data and context in global freight and logistics. The future of global freight data lies in real-time information, contextual insights, and aggregated data that can help companies make better decisions and adapt to a rapidly changing industry.

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The Logistics Academy

JULY 19, 2017

It is exploring driverless automated guided vehicles, leveraging smart sensors to detect shipping anomalies such as piracy, and data analytics to predict traffic congestion spots. Singapore’s success shows that, with a forward-thinking vision and much determination, a developing country with few resources can become a leading logistics hub.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

5PL: The most global strategy With the development of business and the growth of e-commerce, a new member has emerged on the logistics position scale: the 5PL. This partner assumes the most global logistics strategy of all.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JUNE 18, 2021

While flexibility is important any time global logistics is involved, the phrase ‘now more than ever’ holds true here. A good example of how this plays out is in the case of congestion at the Port of Oakland. Don’t dismiss historical data. However, these issues tend to be cyclical as we look at the data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

A disruption at any point in the global logistics network including the average of 12 touch points from shipment packaging to final delivery can prove disastrous for profits, service levels, customer loyalty, and other key metrics. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing. Tensions flare in the Middle East without warning.

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Dedola Global Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Importers rely on the help of a 3PL (third-party logistics company) to accomplish all the time-consuming and potentially costly tasks associated with shipping. With Dedola Global Logistics, soft costs are reduced allowing you to spend those valuable resources on growing your business while alleviating the stress of shipping.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Those industries include data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe. Mr. van den Eijnden is the director of global logistics operations planning and systems at Molex.

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Dedola Global Logistics

MAY 14, 2020

Professional logistics providers plan to ensure the most efficient routes and coordinate modes of transport seamlessly. Your global logistics partner negotiates the complicated movements and interchanges in the life of your shipment – from loading through to final delivery. About Dedola Global Logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. The Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN) is the world’s largest, collaborative multimodal logistics messaging network.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

And though the market index long predates digital computing, computing power combined with huge, aggregated data sets have proved fertile ground to improve visibility. As containerized freight has been slow to digitize in general, a reliable, data-driven, and actionable index has eluded the industry as well.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Through data integration and the ability to translate and share information flowing in from customers, vendors, carriers, order management, mobile applications, financial systems, emails, portals and more, today’s TMS can become a rallying point for all transportation related events and data for true inter-enterprise visibility.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Global logistics has always hosted a rotating cast of ocean liners, forwarders, customs brokers and others. Beyond the pricing and underlying ocean freight control, on display in this interchange, Maersk wields three less obvious advantages: Data. A Maersk ocean liner generates some 2 GB a of data per day.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JULY 7, 2021

As a key global logistics player, handling 19 million shipments annually, we are acutely aware of the significant responsibility we have towards creating a more sustainable future for our industry. Actionable data insights. With this data, we are uniquely positioned to improve transparency into emissions across the industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Billions of venture capital dollars of investment are being poured into companies that can integrate real-time visibility data with transportation to provide a more informed ETA for shippers and carriers. The Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN) is the world’s largest, collaborative multimodal logistics messaging network.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

The Descartes Global Logistics Network has 16,500+ customers on it, with more than 13 billion messages processed per year and more than 66 million routes/resources managed per year. The limiting factor is still getting timely and accurate data. The R&D team delivered about 350 product releases in 2016.

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Freightos

MARCH 29, 2017

This was one of the things that ICV saw in Freightos: Freightos provides large global shippers with the transparency and information required to lower not only direct costs, but also, through Freightos’ carbon footprint calculator, indirect costs to the environment from the transportation modes and trade routes they choose. #2:

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Dedola Global Logistics

AUGUST 9, 2024

Recent data indicates a significant uptick in freight volumes from these regions. For example, volumes from Vietnam have grown due to its booming e-commerce industry and increased foreign investments, positioning it as a significant production hub in Southeast Asia.

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Now, That's Logistics

MARCH 12, 2018

Global logistics and supply chains are not immune. Blockchain is likewise advancing in the logistics industry. This can result in greater transparency and security throughout the logistics process. 3D printing is already changing the logistics landscape, for example in the aerospace parts industry.

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Forto

JULY 12, 2019

How the right communication process and data management style augment shipment handling and reduce risk. The complexity of global logistics and volatility of trade more and more encourages the use of an experienced and digital freight forwarder. The complex nature of freight forwarding is best explained via examples. .

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Dedola Global Logistics

JUNE 4, 2024

Leveraging our expertise in intermodal shipments, we at Dedola Global Logistics navigate these hurdles with finesse, assuring seamless movement from ports to inland destinations. Hands-On Expertise : Our team possesses a deep understanding of international logistics, which translates into expertly handling drayage complexities.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 5, 2021

Let’s look at seven ways that freight technology and data achieves that goal. Freight data reduces dwell time and load time. New advances in data-driven transportation management help reduce dwell time impact by streamlining scheduling and avoiding bottlenecks in the yard. Data-driven processes streamline shipping.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

A modern, multi-modal Tier 1 TMS can now take data from all sources, cleanse it and use it. With the ELD mandate, some companies are plugging into ELD manufacturers and retrieving data off the ELD or the carrier’s system (which gets it from their own ELD devices). Small but mighty. That way, information can be shared but remain secure.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It means that carriers and drivers are more empowered today thanks to technology and data transparency. Having greater access to data, particularly benchmarking data, is also empowering shippers. Edwards Deming famously said, “In God we trust, all others must bring data.” What does this mean for shippers and receivers?

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

At TOPBOTS , an online, educational resource for all things AI, writer Mariya Yao calls the process “turning supply chain logistics into automated trading.” She gives an example: Amazon’s ability to deliver packages to a person’s door in under two hours. Young’s example of robot workers involves a company previously mentioned: Amazon.

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Material Handling and Logistics

MAY 2, 2018

If temperature at point B varies dramatically from the temperature at point A and C, product managers can extrapolate this data to pinpoint problem areas and allocate resources accordingly. Scott Nelson is CEO of Sweetbridge , a global blockchain alliance. It’s not just the producer that stands to benefit from these advancements.

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Airfreight Logistics

JUNE 16, 2020

FedEx and Microsoft on Monday announced a new multiyear collaboration to help transform commerce by combining the global digital and logistics network of FedEx with the power of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud.

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Now, That's Logistics

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

According to Logistics Management , soaring inflation, tightening cargo capacity, and a shrinking labor market only add up to one thing for today’s global logistics managers: the triple whammy. Indeed, industry analysts advise logistics managers to expect a steady escalation of rates and expenses,” Patrick Burnson writes.

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Shipchain

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

ShipChain , the blockchain-based end-to-end logistics startup, has announced the integration of its platform with Scandinavian logistics company Scanlog , to help with the track-and-trace of Scanlog’s freight moving across the company’s global logistics network.

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Now, That's Logistics

MAY 11, 2021

“Researchers have already detected ongoing campaigns aiming to take advantage of individuals seeking access to the vaccine, and even personal data being sold on the dark web.”. Nuspire’s John Ayers points to security awareness training, proper data classification (i.e.,

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2024

Global logistics, which involves the transportation and storage of materials and information through supply chains, is part of the challenge that affects every industry. For example, fleet monitoring, driver support systems, and eco-driving can reduce GHG emissions as well as fuel costs by as much as 20% at the same time.

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

During the week of May 30 th , for example, Yantian’s container dwell times rose to eight days and were expected to reach as high as 18-21 days by early-June. Container availability dropped at the three southern China ports, the publication adds, citing data from Container xChange. Yantian, Shekou, and Nansha) hard.

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Dedola Global Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Importers rely on the help of a 3PL (third-party logistics company) to accomplish all the time-consuming and potentially costly tasks associated with shipping. A good example of how we achieve our goal of providing our customers with world class services it our online shipment tracking system, Trackit! Provides reports and data.

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Dedola Global Logistics

MAY 14, 2020

Professional logistics providers plan to ensure the most efficient routes and coordinate modes of transport seamlessly. Your global logistics partner negotiates the complicated movements and interchanges in the life of your shipment – from loading through to final delivery. That’s the Dedola difference.

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Dedola Global Logistics

MAY 14, 2020

Professional logistics providers plan to ensure the most efficient routes and coordinate modes of transport seamlessly. Your global logistics partner negotiates the complicated movements and interchanges in the life of your shipment – from loading through to final delivery. About Dedola Global Logistics.

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Now, That's Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In the logistics arena , electronic air waybills follow cargo from shipper to delivery; machine learning (ML) helps organizations uncover supply chain data patterns and enhances decision-making; and real-time, cloud-based transportation management systems (TMS) can handle a wide variety of processes—from freight procurement to billing.

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