Logistics/Supply Chains

Greg Tuthill, chief commercial officer of SeaCube Containers, sizes up the market for refrigerated shipping containers during a fireside chat at FreightWaves Global Supply Chain Week.

FourKites’ Glenn Koepke discusses how and why collaboration among retailers, transportation providers and brokers enhances supply chain visibility.

Biden’s executive order seeks short-term and long-term review of critical supply chains.

Canadian health care logistics provider Andlauer will acquire most of pharmaceutical trucking firm Skelton Truck Lines for over $90 million – a valuation driven up by the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

A well-developed team that executes consistently and works well together creates leverage in a business like nothing else can.

John Tyson, fourth-generation Tyson family member and chief sustainability officer at Tyson Foods, discusses sustainability strategies in protein systems and food supply chains.

Brett Rose, the CEO of United National Consumer Suppliers, discusses how container ship congestion is impacting the retail sector during a fireside chat with Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC senior editor of guests and American Shipper columnist, during FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.

CFI’s facility in Laredo, Texas, has 6,000 square feet of office space on a 40-acre lot, including a staging and transloading area for cross-border Mexico freight.

National Retail Federation’s Jon Gold and CNBC’s Lori Ann LaRocco discuss the impact of empty containers and port congestion and how retailers can protect themselves from future supply chain vulnerabilities.

Geodis’ Jeff McDermott joined FreightWaves to talk about challenges that parcel carriers are facing and lessons learned from the pandemic.

Jennifer Bisceglie discusses how Interos ingests over 100,000 different types of data feeds to map out a company’s extended supply chain and monitors weather and world events to prepare companies for any ripple effects in the defense supply chain.

A ransomware gang has leaked data related to Hyundai Motor America’s logistics operations after an apparent ransomware attack on the automaker and subsidiary Kia Motors America.

The trade agreement’s rules governing how much of a car must consist of North American parts could incentivize automakers to set up more assembly plants in the U.S.

Preeti Pande, the hydrogen solution provider’s chief marketing officer, comes with extensive fuel cell industry experience and a Ph.D.

From truck parts to fuel cells, business leaders face challenges in getting critical components and meeting customer expectations for delivery.

As vaccine distribution spreads globally, the hope for pre-pandemic normalcy heightens. But FreightWaves’ exclusive conversation with Bill Fallon, AIT Worldwide Logistics’ vice president of global accounts, reveals that the changes spurred by the pandemic may permanently shift how the global community works and shops.

The starting point for referrals will always be the quality of service you provide.

Whereas at other times cheap capital might be an occasion to take bigger risks, this time, enterprises are not using their resources to expand outside their bread-and-butter business but instead to invest within it.

Supply chain visibility consistently rears its head as a vital need.

In logistics and transportation, timely responses are critical, yet email has remained largely unchanged and many operators are constantly losing valuable client communication in their inboxes.

SONAR is the leading freight forecasting platform. Two recently added SONAR indices are proving very useful to SONAR subscribers. Learn more.

HubTran boasts over 1 billion processed documents, 99% accuracy and $50 million saved.

DSC Logistics, a Chicago-area third-party logistics provider, says it was a victim of a ransomware attack after hackers threaten to release stolen data.

Good management alone won’t keep a business afloat, but poor management almost ensures failure in the ongoing crisis.

These Instagram accounts center on the perspective of brokers, or a dispatcher in one case, using humor and memes to laugh — or cry — at the rigors of their daily work lives.

With consistency in cold emailing, you’ll find consistency in your response rate.

Now is the time to transform the United States’ dominance of information technology into a durable leadership position in innovations that will characterize supply chains the rest of this century.

The past 12 to 18 months have been nothing short of spectacular for Peloton. It has cemented itself as a prominent fitness brand with a base of fiercely loyal customers while growing revenues 233% yoy in Q3. But the company has outkicked its coverage and capped potential growth due to its supply chain constraints and lack of visibility.

The public needs to be educated about the quality control processes in place for the manufacture of vaccines.

The position is seen as a nod to the growing complexity of Prologis’ business.

Amazon is the first e-commerce company to offer end-to-end logistics.

CIEM’s Pioneer Chassis is gearing up to play a key role in squelching port bottlenecks and filling the chassis shortage gap.

Recent analysis from Gartner shows retailers with more than 50% of revenue from the online channel have logistics costs as a percentage of sales that are almost double those of their store-focused counterparts.

French company Shippeo, a supply chain visibility platform, has secured $32 million to continue product innovation and market expansion. The round, announced on Thursday, was co-led by Battery Ventures, along with existing investors NGP Capital, ETF Partners, Partech and Bpifrance Digital Venture. Founded in 2014, Shippeo joins a string of visibility platform companies that have […]

OneRail’s $6.7 million in late seed financing will help the delivery orchestration and fulfillment platform scale its business development, sales and marketing operations.

A TMS catering to everyone is simply landing somewhere in the middle, and very likely a better solution exists for any of those given parties.

This is an excerpt from Monday’s Point of Sale retail supply chain newsletter. The UK grocery supermarket sector was once highly oligopolistic, but in recent years, European brands have expanded in the UK and have created a much fiercer competitive landscape. There are 4 primary British supermarket chains dubbed ‘The Big Four’: Tesco, Sainsbury’s, ASDA, […]

“FreightWaves has developed this incredible media company” around its SONAR platform, says Matt Waller, dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business.

Dachser promotes Burkhard Eling to CEO; GlobalTranz hires Bryan Foe as SVP; the Containerization & Intermodal Institute appoints Randy Bayles to its board; and Illinois Railroad Association taps Michelle Kelm as executive director.

Ridgemont becomes Seko’s majority investor by buying Greenbriar Equity’s stake. Greenbriar retains a minority position.

Ladingo’s growth suggests a segment of the market is not being adequately served by existing solutions.

Acquisitions and record Canadian grain loadings round out rail news

Retail analyst Andrew Cox makes five predictions for retail supply chains in 2021. First and foremost: An inventory correction.

DHL Freight promotes two and ev Transportation appoints two to board.

There is no shortage of opportunities for AI and machine learning to be applied to the solution of big problems in global supply chains.

Former FEMA official Tim Manning will coordinate COVID-19 supply chain management in Biden White House

Even while most of your audience will never have met you in person, you are trying to give an accurate picture of who you are, through what you present.

“Shipamax delivers data entry automation across entire logistics organizations,” says CEO and co-founder Jenna Brown.

With vaccines in tow, the transportation industry will deliver a lot of much-needed holiday cheer over the next few weeks.

Xwing, not X-Men. When you need to pay the bills, you do what Xwing did: Skip the fancy technology and put a pilot in the plane to ferry COVID vaccines to needy areas.

The flow of vaccines to the American public is slowly picking up pace in week two. A lot of coordination among manufacturers, logistics companies, carriers and the government is required.

Using artificial intelligence to cull insights from freight transportation’s massive amounts of data can not only encourage safe environments, It also has the potential to improve productivity and efficiency, as well as provide supply chain visibility that benefits all stakeholders, says a tech executive.

Clutter was created to provide a smooth experience for customers with its process of door-to-door storage.

FreightWaves chats with CEVA Logistics on what it takes for retail customers to transition successfully to e-commerce. What’s the answer? Flexibility.

Heather Kettelhohn told the North American Supply Chain Summit she arrived at Cummins Inc. just four days before the pandemic began to shut down the company’s global operations. She had to learn on the fly while applying her decades of planning expertise.

Bodor: Efficiency in existing supply chain actually proved to be a hurdle when changes needed to be made

Everyone has been in a company-wide Zoom meeting where not a soul has a question to ask at the end.

A UPS plane delivers Canada’s first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines as national rollout begins.

With federal defense clearances and experience in transporting vaccines,, Boyle Transportation assumes niche role in moving COVID vaccine from Pfizer plant in Michigan to airports and UPS hub.

USDA rule under review at OMB expected to help prevent unlawful arrests and cargo seizures

FMCSA has included restrictions and limitations in waivers so far to avoid compromising safety.

FedEx Canada and Innomar Strategies secure a Canadian government contract to distribute millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses.