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Sheer Logistics Acquires CargoBarn, Enhances 3PL and 4PL Services

Food Logistics

Sheer Logistics acquired CargoBarn, a tech-enabled third-party logistics provider (3PL) that provides full truckload freight brokerage, expedited, drayage, and other specialized services.

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April 2, 2024 Update

Freightos

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Comments This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. More Resources Home April 2, 2024 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market.

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Panama Canal Will Need Rest of Year to Recover From Drought

Supply Chain Brain

La Niña is expected to usher in ample rains in a matter of weeks, providing relief after record dryness afflicted the key transit channel in 2023.

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Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions

Freightos

Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Email This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. More Resources Home Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions Joyce Tai April 2, 2024 If there’s one lingering lesson from the supply chain crisis of COVID, it’s that digitization can help organizations navigate crises…but that digitization can’t be put in place DURING that same crisis.

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Rethinking warehouse work culture: Can automation create better workplaces?

Heico Sandee, CEO of Smart Robotics, explores how automation redefines warehouse culture. By shifting repetitive tasks to skill-based roles, automation improves safety, fosters collaboration, and makes warehousing more appealing to today’s workforce.

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Finding Calm in the Chaos: How 3PLs Can Navigate Today’s Unruly Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Brands, carriers, and third-party logistics providers are rapidly adapting their operations to address a chaotic shipping landscape and skyrocketing customer demands.

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The Challenges of Small-Parcel Shipments for Distributors

Supply Chain Brain

The growth in e-commerce in recent years has led to a surge in small-parcel volumes. Distributors are struggling to keep up with the deluge of shipments to consumers and businesses.

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World Autism Awareness Day: A Letter from Ann Marie Sullivan, CEO of Spectrum Works

MTS Logistics

Today, April 2nd, is World Autism Awareness Day. As many of our readers know, autism awareness and acceptance is a cause near and dear to our hearts at MTS Logistics, the parent company of MoreThanShipping.com. Now in its 14th year, the 14th Annual Bike Tour with MTS for Autism, will take place on June 8th, 2024 in New York City. The event is the shipping and logistics industry’s largest biking event ever.

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Secondary Route Lets Small Vessels into Baltimore Port for First Time Since Bridge Collapse

Supply Chain Brain

A majority of the vessels permitted in the secondary channel will be ones helping with cleanup efforts for the collapsed Baltimore bridge.

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Supply Chain Benchmarking for Beginners

FreightWaves SONAR

You don’t have to use historical data to justify your contracts…or at least you shouldn’t. Transportation pros from the executive seat down to the entry-level analyst have better data to lean on to make their jobs easier. A common way for shippers to run RFPs, annual bids or even shorter projects is to simply rely on pricing data from a core group of trusted carriers and brokers.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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Watch: Threats and Concerns for Global Shipping in 2024 and Beyond

Supply Chain Brain

Lee Smith, global trade attorney at Baker Donelson, reviews the top economic, regulatory and geopolitical concerns of supply chain executives for the coming year.

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Import Compliance Deep Dive: Tackling Tough Questions in Global Trade

MercuryGate

Importing and exporting are not without challenges, especially in terms of the complexity of import compliance regulations. The global trade environment is ripe with geopolitical tensions, varying stages of digitization, and a lack of automation. The post Import Compliance Deep Dive: Tackling Tough Questions in Global Trade appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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Manufacturing Delay Leads to Temporary Shortage for Pair of Eli Lily Insulin Offerings

Supply Chain Brain

The two insulin drugs will be temporarily out of stock through the beginning of April, according to Eli Lilly.

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Reusing Pallets Essential to Sustainability Goals

Logistics Business Magazine

The Chairman of the UK National Association of Pallet Distributors (NAPD) has called for supply chain businesses to ensure they have a ‘reuse first’ policy in place for pallets. As new legislation will be introduced in the UK and EU in 2024, environmental reporting will be mandatory for large businesses and is expected for SMEs by 2026. NAPD Chairman Paul Tait said the many companies that supply products such as food, drink, and pharmaceuticals can make the transition more straightforward by reu

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.

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EVPassport Will Provide Charging Stations for Associa’s Communities

NGT News

Electric vehicle charging network EPassport and community management services supplier Associa have partnered to provide next-generation EV charging stations at Associa-managed communities throughout the U.S. Under the agreement, Associa will implement EVPassport’s infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform across its national portfolio of managed communities, delivering a reliable, frictionless charging experience to over five million residents.

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Stoecklin Logistics Announces New CEO

Logistics Business Magazine

Stoecklin Logistics, a leading provider of automated material handling and warehouse storage systems, announced the company’s new CEO, Juerg Frefel, at MODEX 2024 in Atlanta recently. Appointed for his expertise as a natural scientist and engineer, Frefel (pictured) is passionate about supporting Stoecklin’s efforts in achieving sustainability and reducing its overall environmental impact.

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Gage Zero, Hillwood Will Develop Commercial EV Fleet Charging Hub in Texas

NGT News

Austin, Texas-based fleet electrification solutions company Gage Zero LLC and developer Hillwood plan to develop Texas’ first public commercial EV charging facility, catering to trucks and last-mile fleets. Nestled within the 27,000-acre master-planned, mixed-use development of AllianceTexas, this project is a significant leap forward in sustainable infrastructure.

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More Customer Appointments with Routing Solution

Logistics Business Magazine

Descartes Systems Group, a global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that the British kitchen retailer, Wren Kitchens, is using Descartes’ dynamic appointment scheduling, route planning and optimisation solution to improve surveyor productivity allowing them to complete 56% more customer appointments and significantly reduce its overall ‘cost per appointment’, which has saved the company £2million annually.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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Quantix has acquired CLX Logistics

Commercial Carrier Journal

The CLX makes Quantix one of the largest chemical 3PL companies in its network.

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Galvanised Clad Rack High-Bay Warehouse

Logistics Business Magazine

Renova, a European consumer products brand in the tissue paper products segment, has automated its intralogistics operations with the opening of a new clad rack high-bay warehouse in Torres Novas, Portugal, where its head office is based too. The manufacture, design, calculation and installation of the structure was the responsibility of the storage solutions specialist AR Racking, who also carried out the project management.

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Ships With 240 Tons of Aid Turned Back From Gaza After Airstrike Kills 7 Workers

Supply Chain Brain

The charity announced that it would be suspending its delivery of food aid on April 2, all while experts warn that famine is imminent in northern Gaza.

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