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The Real Impact of Demurrage Fees—And How to Avoid Them

Dedola Global Logistics

Containers left sitting too long at the port accrue charges , often because of poor coordination, slow communication, or disorganized service from freight forwarders. Large freight forwarders collect demurrage fees up to 80% of the time and issue supplemental invoices on 40-60% of shipmentsoften months later. The result?

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What Can Freight Forwarding Learn from Airbnb? – A guest post from Container xChange

Freightos

While people find it easy to book things like accommodations online, container owners and freight forwarders or shippers looking for available Shipper Owned Containers (SOCs) often still struggle to connect with trusted partners. As freight forwarders, we’re not the only industry that has had to digitize.

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How To Reduce Soft Costs in Shipping

Dedola Global Logistics

Archives When it comes to choosing the right international freight forwarder for your shipping needs, cost plays a factor in your decision. An experienced forwarder or third-party logistics company (3PL) can help you improve your bottom line by reducing your soft costs in addition to saving you money on hard costs.

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Outsourcing transport and warehousing: How to be Successful

Logistics Bureau

While many logistics service providers commenced as transport companies, they have diversified to engage in contract warehousing logistics, freight forwarding plus many other value adding services. But where there is an absence of sensible interpretation of data, this can cause major issues in the outsourcing relationship.

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How to Choose an Automated Document Processing Platform

RPA Labs

Creating a standard for current operations better equips decision-makers to choose a data-driven processing option that doesn’t limit them to their platform’s restraints. . When buying RPA for supply chain needs, freight forwarders should consider the intelligent document automation abilities it holds.

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How to Unlock Value of Data-driven Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

The ability to tap into data is critical to business success – from predicting sales trends to improving operations and customer service, writes Stephan Sieber (pictured), CEO at Transporeon. This gives companies the insights they need to outperform the competition, and today’s business leaders clearly recognise the value of data.

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How to Use Artificial Intelligence (AI)  for Shipping Document Automation

RPA Labs

As domestic truck rates increase, international trade freight costs will most likely escalate too. Shippers and freight forwarders are turning to AI for shipping document automation to stay competitive in price and efficiency. . Baseline RPA is limited to extracting data with rules set for each session or document type.