Transportation News
The Financial Value of In-Transit Cargo Tracking Data
Over the years, information about changes in the condition of goods in-transit has been considered untraceable. Today, however, actual field trials have demonstrated the financial value of precise real-time information from the operational supply chain.
The Pressure Transportation Supply Chains are Under
The Turning of the Screw: For a few years now, the screw has been tightening for the current transportation market, but the system remained resilient.
Walmart Awards Transportation Carriers of the Year
Each year, the retailer names the best of the best out of more than 400 third party carriers servicing the company.
Panama Canal says Deal with Consortium to be Signed This Week
The wrangling between the Panama Canal Authority and a Spanish-led consortium may soon be settled.
The Logistics of Transporting Wind Turbines
Reducing Inefficiencies, Costs and Community Impact by Streamlining the Supply Chain.
Oracle Transportation Management on Oracle Engineered Systems
This whitepaper describes how Oracle Transportation Management in combination with Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud provide the optimal solution for today’s transportation management challenges.
Global Transportation Management Benchmark Study: Climbing the Visibility Sophistication Ladder
This report annually looks into the trends that impact how shippers and logistics service providers manage their international freight transportation processes, and the technology that helps support those processes.
Amazon (India) to Use Own Logistics Network for Product Delivery in 2 years
In the next two years Amazon, the world's largest retailer, will use its own logistics network to deliver nearly every product sold on its Indian portal.
The Resilient Supply Chain
To be resilient, global enterprises need new decision tools for supply chain risk assessment, monitoring and modeling. Cognizant of this, Exel has developed Resilience360, a web-based risk analytics software solution that maps a company’s supply chain risks, and identifies alternative options that either mitigate or eliminate risk entirely.
Need Truckload Carrier Capacity? Diversify
Is the longest run of supply/demand balance since deregulation ending? As balance/price tensions mount, shippers seek assured capacity and predictable costs.
The Extraordinary Rolls-Royce Technology Behind Your Flight
Aircraft in flight anywhere in the world automatically report back via satellite to the Rolls-Royce Service Operations Room where our team looks at, compares and reports on half a billion engine data reports every year. The data is analysed, trends extrapolated, anomalies detected and, often unknown to the pilot, preparations are made at the arrival airport to take remedial action and send the aircraft on its next leg with no delays.
‘Airshipping’- Perhaps the Logistics of Freight by Blimp aren’t Just Hot Air
The unveiling of the Aeroscraft, a 266 feet long and 110 feet wide lighter-than-air craft by the now Californian based Worldwide Aeros company simply shows that some maintain faith that the concept so enthusiastically pursued by Count Zeppelin still has a place in the modern age, at least in selected logistics situations, carrying suitable freight to and from certain inhospitable regions.
Seven Tips to Reduce and Control Parcel Shipping Costs
If you are a high-volume, or even mid-size parcel shipper, this paper is a must-read. Parcel carriers employ many little known, but highly detrimental tactics to confuse or take advantage of their shipper clients – all in the interest of generating carrier revenue. These are the Seven Dirty Little Secrets of Parcel Shipping that can make a big impact in your ability to reduce and control your parcel shipping costs.
The Logistics of Delivering Fresh Roses In Time for Valentine’s Day
Shipping starts weeks before the holiday and the best flowers arrive early. But how does a flower that makes the two-week journey arrive with the splendor to light up a Valentine’s bouquet?
UPS Continues Global Healthcare Expansion with Purchase of UK Healthcare Logistics Innovator
UPS® announced it has completed the purchase of U.K.-based Polar Speed, an innovative provider of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical supply chain solutions in the U.K. The acquisition further strengthens UPS's healthcare network across Europe, providing healthcare companies access to a single source for logistics solutions across the continent.
B2City: The Next Wave of Urban Logistics
As cities continue to grow, both in terms of population and resource needs, they are running up against what will become one of the increasingly important questions of the 21st century: How to manage that growth sustainably.
Best Practices for a Freight Market that is Heating Up
Anyone who has talked to a motor carrier knows that it costs a lot more to operate a truck today that it did three years ago. Despite the increased operating expense, shippers have been able to avoid significant rate increases to this point.
3PL Partnership Increases Operational Flexibility, Reduces Costs
Given the fluctuations in demand, many chemical companies have sought ways to better manage their overhead costs such as warehousing and distribution – arriving at flexible, volume-based solutions.
Panama’s Colon Free Zone: Challenges and Opportunities of a Logistics Hub
Panama’s Colon free trade zone is becoming a distribution option for Latin America, particularly as the Panama Canal widening nears completion. Yet, the location has significant challenges, according to the just-released report, “Panama’s Colon Free Zone: Challenges and Opportunities of a Logistics Hub.”
Panama Canal Expansion Suspended Over Cost-Overrun Dispute
A Spanish-led consortium charged with a multibillion-dollar expansion of the Panama Canal lock system has halted work after a disagreement over massive cost overruns in the project.
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