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7 Tips to Choose the Best Shipping Company

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Image source: iStocks | 7 Tips to Choose the Best Shipping Company With the growing demand for freight transportation services, choosing the best carrier for your company can be a challenge. It is an essential task to ensure the quality and efficiency of a company’s logistics operations. After all, the wrong choice can lead to losses, delays in deliveries, and even problems with the safety of the goods.

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Unlocking Supply Chain Potential with AI Agents and Multi-Agent Workflows

Logistics Viewpoints

Colin Masson, ARC Advisory Groups expert on Industrial AI. The industrial sectorparticularly supply chain management, is facing unprecedented complexity. Volatile markets, global disruptions, and the need for real-time insights are pushing traditional systems to their limits. While Generative AI (GenAI) has shown promise, its limitations in planning, workflow automation, and dynamic adaptation necessitate a more sophisticated approach.

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Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk’s Gemini Cooperation: How This Partnership Could Change Shipping

MTS Logistics

The maritime transportation industry is undergoing significant transformation, driven by the increasing need for cost reduction, enhanced operational efficiency, and growing competition within the global supply chain. In response to these pressures, major shipping companies are increasingly forming strategic alliances. A prominent example of such a partnership is between Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk, announced in January 2024 and set to launch on February 1, 2025, under the name “Gemini.”

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What the New Administration Could Mean for Your Business

WorkWave

The outcome of the 2024 presidential election is poised to bring pivotal changes to industries deeply tied to the nations economic and regulatory framework. Service sectors like commercial cleaning, physical security, pest control, lawn care and landscaping operate at the intersection of labor, compliance and financial policymaking them especially sensitive to shifts in federal priorities.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.

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Logistics Data Reflects Industry-Wide Focus on Operational Efficiency

Food Logistics

Across all sectors, the time from order entry to shipment improved by an average of 9.6%.

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Houthis Say They Plan to Scale Back Attacks in Red Sea

Supply Chain Brain

Houthi attacks in the Red Sea date back to November 2023, when rebels attacked the British-owned Galaxy Leadercargo ship and seized its crew.

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Unlock the Full Benefits of Logistics Automation

MercuryGate

It doesnt matter whether youre managing a modest fleet or a warehouse that could fit in Amazons break room logistics automation helps you succeed. In this guide, we show you how. The post Unlock the Full Benefits of Logistics Automation appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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The Evolution of Delivery Management: From Manual to Automated Systems

Loginext

Explore the evolution of delivery management system, from manual processes to advanced automated solutions. Learn about their benefits, features, and future innovations in logistics. The post The Evolution of Delivery Management: From Manual to Automated Systems appeared first on loginextsolutions.com.

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Pulling the Plug on Electric Trucks?

Talking Logistics

Last week, as reported by Reuters, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has withdrawn its request for a federal waiver to require commercial truckers to transition to zero-emissions vehicles, preempting an expected denial from the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. Here are some excerpts from the article: California’s Advanced Clean Fleets rule aimed to.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Tariffs, Panama Canal Threats Headline Start of Trump's Second Term

Supply Chain Brain

Trump signed more than 200 executive orders within hours of being sworn in, including one that requires federal agencies to conduct a review of U.S. trade policies.

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January 21, 2025 Update

Freightos

Blog More Resources Home January 21, 2025 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. Judah Levine January 21, 2025 Weekly highlights Ocean rates – Freightos Baltic Index : Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) fell 10% to $5,321/FEU.

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Supply Chains Shift as Companies Adapt to Looming Trump Tariffs

Supply Chain Brain

As Trump's trade policies take hold, businesses will be faced with the choice between diversifying their supply chains, or building up inventories to get ahead of tariffs.