Supply Chains
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FreightWaves Classics: Port Houston generates Texas-sized results
Port Houston is one of the youngest and busiest ports in the United States. Read about its history in this FreightWaves Classics article.
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As Amazon tightens shipping requirements, sellers look for answers
Amazon has started requiring third-party sellers to meet more stringent Prime shipping promises, and that is forcing changes to the supply chain.
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Ship-from-store: A retail Rube Goldberg machine?
Improvements will come in the form of more ship-from-store, but mainly more ship-from-dark-store as retailers realize the unnecessary complexity of the method and seek to…
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Big premium on sale of ORBCOMM didn’t catch everyone by surprise
The telematics, ELD and satellite provider is getting sold for a 50% premium. Even that is less than at least one analyst saw as its…
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Drilling Deep: The sharp competition in the visibility sector
Needing to know where your freight is spawns incredibly competitive market
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EFS chat recap: What SONAR reveals about the post-pandemic market
Zach Strickland, the Sultan of SONAR, talks about what the pandemic did to supply chains.
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Viewpoint: A wish list based on Biden’s American Jobs Plan
I am encouraged to see that President Joe Biden is calling for up to $300 billion of investments by the federal government to begin rebuilding…
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Are skyscraper warehouses the key to urban grocery fulfillment?
This clever twist on micro-fulfillment centers offers a futuristic model for urban retailing and fulfillment. And it comes as companies test out a bevy of…
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FreightWaves Classics: Northwest Seaport Alliance is first of its kind
Container cargo is stacked at the Port of Seattle. Note the Space Needle in the background. (Photo: Northwest Seaport Alliance)
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Shipwell introduces pricing intelligence tools for shippers
Shipwell is adding pricing intelligence tools to its enterprise platform. Shippers testing the new tools have seen procurement costs drop as much as 10%, Shipwell…
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