SEKO Logistics

Companies such as Peloton are facing a costly logistical nightmare as record congestion at ports around the world cause delays.

Taking steps to expand its United States facilities footprint, Chicago-based third-party logistics (3PL) services provider and global freight forwarder SEKO Logistics said this week it has opened two new East Coast-based regional distribution hubs in Baltimore and Charlotte.

Higher rates, tight capacity, and a lack of empty container availability are major factors the current state of the global ocean container market.

The development comes at a time when SEKO is moving forward on its next stage of expansion, focusing on additional acquisitions, technology platform investments, and continued growth in key global regions.

The process of COVID-19 vaccination on this scale is going to be an enormous task, but the fact we are even discussing it within a year of the start of this pandemic illustrates the collective effort already undertaken and the logistics capabilities moving forward.

A partnership announced earlier this month by Tel Aviv, Israel-based Bringg, a delivery and fulfillment orchestration platform provider, and Chicago-based third-party logistics (3PL) services provider SEKO Logistics is focused on innovating and optimizing the digital consumer delivery experience. This partnership is timely, in that many consumers are keenly focused on getting holiday shopping done earlier, due, in large part, to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen various delivery networks backed up as more consumers are now ordering goods online.

As the world struggles through this unsettling and uncertain period, sectors of all kinds are affected in one way or another; retail has been hit particularly hard by COVID-19 and, looking ahead, businesses will have to be more adaptable than ever to thrive in what was already a rapidly evolving industry.

Setting up a slick ecommerce website with sophisticated online ordering and payment processing is only the tip of the iceberg, if you don’t deliver the goods according to a customer’s expectations, they may never return.

Retailers, direct-to-consumer brands, marketplaces and marketplace sellers riding the lockdown boom in Cross Border eCommerce sales are going to get a massive ‘wake-up call’ in the mail from July 1 as Global postal rates into the United States start to soar by as much as 150% or more.

A wave of digital disruption surfaced in the freight forwarding sector a few years ago, with startups, suppliers, and even shippers using new technologies to develop a variety of innovative trade solutions, but the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic poses the ultimate challenge to these new models.

There’s a lot to think about before you can launch internationally, so, we’ve put together our three steps to international shipping for eCommerce retailers to help you plan your strategy.

The objective of this partnership, according to SEKO, is to create new cross-border growth opportunities for shippers that do business between Asia and the United States, in light of global trade disputes accelerating demand for what it called broader geographic supply solutions.

INLT, a licensed customs broker with the ability to file entries anywhere in the United States has been acquired by Amazon for an undisclosed amount.

Within the past two years, retailers around the globe have begun to focus more on the entirety of the customer journey while building a successful supply chain; this includes the dreaded returns process.

The 2019 23rd Annual Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Study examines the global outsourced marketplace and leading trends for shippers and 3PLs in the logistics industry.