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What is a Carnet?

MTS Logistics

A carnet is an international customs document that allows the temporary importation of goods for commercial purposes to and from a country without having to pay duties or value-added taxes on the goods. The carnet allows us to use this single document for clearing the goods through customs.

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LTL in a Post-Yellow World with Curtis Garrett

The Logistics of Logistics

Curtis documents and shares challenges, progress, and goals in a collaborative and community driven way. About FreightPlus Founded in 1988 by trucking industry veteran, Russ Aborn, FreightPlus (formerly Aborn and Co.) For carriers, it presents an opportunity to expand their market share and increase their profitability.

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Boston University’s Sourcing Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

At a quarterly meeting of the Institute of Supply Management, Kevin Frechette, the founder and CEO of Fair Market, gave a presentation on tail spend management. For example, the University may need to buy five snowplow attachments for the front of its Ford F-150 trucks. This is not a purchase made very often. “I

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. Autonomous Alternatives to Trucks and Vans On the other hand, we may see a divergence in the types of assets used in distribution fleets.

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Kimberly-Clark’s Digital Transformation of Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

Weisenberger’s presentation particularly interesting was that while Ms. With the visibility solution, the company is able to develop a plan for warehouse labor that insures when a load comes in, that workers are ready to unload the truck, or when an outbound truck is scheduled at a dock, the pallets are staged and ready to be loaded.

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Document Extraction Bot

RPA Labs

Whether your company is a domestic freight broker, an international freight forwarder , an ocean carrier , or a trucking fleet, you probably rely on your employees to do data entry, document processing, shipment tracking, and invoicing. RPA Labs’ Document Bots allow for seamless system- to-system interaction with a no-code interface.

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Moving toward freight ton efficiency together

Fleet Owner

Last week I presented our Run on Less findings to the government industry meeting of the 21st Century Truck Partnership. I first worked with this group back in 2007, when I represented Navistar and helped construct some of the early documentation th