WorkHound, which offers an anonymous feedback platform for drivers, categorized driver comments into different groups to see what they were talking about. These were the top 5 themes.
Infestations of the brown marmorated stink bug found on ships en-route to Australia are causing havoc with local supply chains. Bugs are breeding, ships are re-routing, trucks are idling and supply chains are collapsing.
Originally planned as an outlet mall, lot to get new lease on life as industrial property
The rise of ecommerce has brought it a lot more last-mile vehicles to the urban streets, making them an integral part of the traffic congestion problems that cities face. But there are initiatives that the city administration can work on to alleviate this situation.
Wise Systems is building a fully automated system that allows teams to manage their entire fleet through cloud-based machine learning and provides dispatch routing that lets businesses plan, manage, and coordinate all aspects of deliveries with complete visibility.
Manufacturing leads first-party logistics growth because of the sector’s long-established supply chains. Retail is the next-largest contributor to first-party logistics growth through the impact of e-commerce.
Logistics startup Opus9 provides automated and digital transportation services for small and medium companies to ship truckload and LTL nationwide.
Logistics startup SmartHop helps automate route planning and provides real-time dispatch advice for truckers, while also assisting shippers in sourcing capacity for their loads.
Reverse logistics is a big issue for clothing companies, but many don’t see it that way.
Increased electric vehicle adoption could lead to higher fuel taxes; drone deliveries could be a nuisance to neighborhoods; EU believes that the U.K. might vote in favor of the Brexit agreement this January.
China’s government is making the port-city of Xiamen, in the south-east of the country, one of the main nodes oin its 21st Century version of the Silk Road. A major new initiative involving ports, road transport, maritime carriers, rail transport, common-marketing, a logistics single trade window and many other features are being set up in the City.
On-demand warehousing provider STORD has raised just under $3 million in 2018 and is looking to hire 20+ people in the Atlanta region to scale up operations.
On-demand warehousing provider STORD has raised just under $3 million in 2018 and is looking to hire 20+ people in the Atlanta region to scale up operations.
European Commission lays out ground rules and a regulation relaxations post-Brexit; Uber loses latest legal bid over driver rights; European Union announces a 37.5% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030.
In light of various contamination scares and disease outbreaks, it is essential to disrupt food supply chains to create more visibility and transparency as products pass through multitude of stakeholders between the farm to fork.
SAP introduced Intelligent Asset Management (IAM), a suite of solutions that brings collaborative asset intelligence, planning, prediction, and simulation to equipment maintenance and operation.
Vector helps streamline trucking operations by digitizing paperwork and assists carriers and shippers in expediting workflow communication.
XPO Logistics has disputed the content of a report from Spruce Point Capital Management, a noted short-seller of stocks, that claims XPO has “perpetuated a massive financial scheme on the public.”
Uber and Lyft are battling on who would go public first; oil production sees a dip in November; Amazon Go to venture into airport retail.
A truck has moved freight from China to Poland in a record 13 days, via the TIR system, which requires road transport operators to only declare their data once when they are hauling goods across multiple borders.
