Earlier today, Greenville, Tenn.-based asset-light freight and logistics services provider Forward Air issued a mid-quarter update for the fourth quarter. On a quarter-to-date period through November, for its Expedited Freight operating statistics, the company said that shipments per day were up 2.4% annually, with revenue per hundredweight
Read more →Top trucking executives and analysts say that the $332 billon full-truckload (TL) market is showing signs of returning to normal levels of “seasonality” after three years of being whipsawed by COVID-affected demand levels. “The truckload market is easing back to normal levels of growth,” says Avery Vise,
Read more →Miami-based freight transportation and logistics services provider Ryder System said this week it has rolled out a new offering geared towards bolstering its freight brokerage business, though the introduction of a new drop-and-hook trailer service. Company officials said that by leveraging capacity through Ryder’s peer-to-peer truck- and
Read more →How much do you agree with the following… Source: Peerless Research Group (PRG) The state of the global supply chain Global supply chains have faced more than their fair share of challenges since the pandemic emerged in early-2020, and the stressors haven’t let up yet. According to
Read more →Facilities management has become infinitely more intricate in the last few years, and the current pandemic has not made running a facility any easier. While there are endless configurations of the ideal Integrated Facilities Maintenance (IFM) program, you will want to find IFM services that can be
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Supply chain disruption is challenging businesses everywhere and forcing company leaders to think differently about how they operate. Artificial Intelligence (AI), data-driven analytics, sustainability and digital transformation are not unfamiliar terms by any means—but the urgency behind them, and the advancements fueling their applicability in the supply chain
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The last two years of expediting, scrambling, and grabbing—let’s call it “ESG” in the supply chain industry—have taught us that we were not prepared for “black swan” events like pandemics, wars (trade and military), and rapid climate change. The initial impulse has been to simply diversify suppliers and routes.
Read more →By Jeff Berman, Group News Editor · December 7, 2022 The new edition of the Port Tracker report issued today by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and maritime consultancy Hackett Associates pointed to end-of-the-year import volumes at the United States-based retail container ports to be well below
Read more →This is the first of two articles looking at sustainability in the supply chain. The second looks at the progress being made by Fresh Del Monte in a vertically-integrated agricultural supply chain. Way back in 2006, I wrote for Diversity Inc. magazine, a publication that covered the then emerging
Read more →When looking at the current state of intermodal volumes, a few quick themes jump out, observed Larry Gross, president of Gross Transportation Consulting at the last month’s RailTrends conference in New York hosted by Progressive Railroading and independent railroad analyst Tony Hatch. One theme highlighted by Gross
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