Transportation

The world's two largest shipping companies are building new facilities, adding more temporary holiday workers and pushing retailers to help them avoid a recurrence of a pre-Christmas shipping logjam.

Understanding current trade flows and continuing changes in international trade lanes is critical to optimizing system investment and operations within our own borders.

Freight forwarding is a complex business and managing multiple customers and multimodal transport carriers, customs challenges, fluctuating demand and allowing for different languages, time zones and currencies all add up to a big challenge that stands between you and competitive advantage.

UPS Inc. announced an average rate increase of 4.9% for package, less-than-truckload and airfreight delivery, effective Dec. 29.

This guide provides simple steps that shows how a location-based application can help companies with remote workers, remote assets or fleets of vehicles cut costs, improve productivity, become more efficient, and grow.

AT&T is now offering companies in the transportation industry fleet management solutions that can help them improve safety, increase productivity, and expand savings.

The facility, which began operations earlier this year, provides a centralized hub for transportation, logistics and distribution serving Orlando, Tampa and other regional Florida markets.

A lot of companies are outsourcing entire or part of their transportation department to 3PL providers, and according to a recent report, 3PL use is only on the rise.

The current USA trucker shortage was forecast many years ago, but not enough has been done to stop it and now the market is feeling the impact.

4 Common Sea and Air Freight Challenges of Australian Importers Solved with Buyer's Consolidation.

The past year has seen more early stage rounds than ever before, with seed rounds accounting for nearly three-quarters of all deals recorded in 2014.

Factors such as rising freight rates, shrinking capacity, an increased desire for supply chain visibility, and the move to install a culture of continuous improvement in logistics operations have all worked together to drive the need for transportation management systems (TMS).

Company says the Cloud offering allows customers to respond more quickly to new business opportunities, without significant upfront cost and implementation times.

By 2018, there will be 130 million of them, spending nearly three times as much, up to $307 billion, five years from now.

The acquisition complements UPS's international cross-border logistics capabilities from the U.S. and U.K., to over 100 countries.

Trucking accounted for 3,800 of the 248,000 jobs added in September, and the unemployment rate declined to 5.9%, the lowest level in six years, the Labor Department reported.

The message from the recent CSCMP conference is loud and clear, the supply chain storm is much closer to hitting than most realize.

Additional capacity is not being brought on, as carriers are not betting on the come, they were burned in the Great Recession and they will not repeat the pain.

Nearly one-third of the respondents participating in the study said they are not prepared to handle omni-channel retailing and only 2% of respondents rated themselves as high performing in the omni-channel space.

Today’s technology offers a variety of tools to not only keep products at the right temperature, but to better monitor the load—from temperature sensors and GPS tracking to self-reporting alerts for computers and mobile devices.