In this Issue:
- 29th Annual State of Logistics: Carriers take charge
- Truckload brokerage: Game on
- Taking the Cloud-first approach
- Emerging markets: Reaching out and reining in
- Special Report: Rising economic tide boosts North American ports
Logistics Management Magazine Archives
July 2018 Logistics Management
July 31, 2018 · The staff of Logistics Management (LM) is honored to present the logistics and transportation community with the results of our “35th Annual Quest for Quality Survey”
July 31, 2018 · Learn about the 35th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for Ocean Cargo carriers.
July 31, 2018 · While air cargo volumes continue to stage a modest uptick, shippers are now waiting to see how the introduction of larger freight aircraft might serve to sustain this growth. At the same time, shippers need to keep an eye on which domestic airports are prepared to handle more capacity and the new demands driven by e-commerce.
July 31, 2018 · Learn about the 35th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for Air Carriers and Air Freight Forwarders.
July 31, 2018 · Learn about the 35th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for North American Shipping Ports
July 31, 2018 · News emanating from the U.S. West Coast indicates that among many of the critical risks logistics managers must confront these days is that of forced labor.
July 31, 2018 · Things remain on solid footing in the freight transportation and logistics market and likely will for the foreseeable future.
July 31, 2018 · Learn about the 35th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for Railroad and Intermodal Carriers.
July 31, 2018 · There are two areas where shippers will feel the effect of the growing water and air pollution problem: freight costs and various taxes and fees.
July 31, 2018 · Learn about the 35th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for Truckload Carriers
July 31, 2018 · Learn about the 35th Annual Quest for Quality Award winners for Regional Less-than-truckload (LTL) Carriers.
July 9, 2018 · As if higher rates and capacity shortages weren’t enough to worry about, shippers must now deal with a pending trade war, import/export uncertainties and increasing scrutiny from C-suite executives. Shippers now face a steep climb to keep budgets and service levels intact.
July 9, 2018 · Voice-directed picking and other types of voice solutions are proven in warehouse environments. But suppliers are now out to make voice-directed work even more productive with analytics and optimization, as well as improvements to the voice recognition engines.
July 8, 2018 · As we have for the past 29 years, the Logistics Management editorial team has devoted a large portion of our July issue to putting context around the “Annual State of Logistics Report (SoL)”—and we continue to do so for good reason.
July 6, 2018 · Focused on low upfront costs, quick deployment models and less need for internal IT support, companies are turning to the Cloud to manage their end-to-end supply chains.
July 5, 2018 · As the economy and GDP grows, so too does container volume. But some North American ports are capitalizing on their competitive advantages and growing faster than the overall market.
July 5, 2018 · A combination of strong demand, favorable economic conditions and technological innovation is paying off in the truckload brokerage space—and savvy shippers are leveraging this dynamic market to gain advantage.
July 5, 2018 · While tactically scrambling for coverage, shippers need to begin now to strategically build relationships that will sustain competitive cost and service metrics over many years.
July 3, 2018 · Leading industry analysts observe that there’s a host of new technologies opening up fresh emerging market opportunities for U.S. shippers. How to properly harness these solutions and third-party partners now becomes the chief challenge.
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XPO opens up three new services acquired through auction of Yellow’s properties and assets
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FTR’s Trucking Conditions Index weakens, due to fuel price gains
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For February, the most recent month for which data is available, the TCI reading came in a -5.31, down from January’s -1.41, which was ahead of December’s -4.3.
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