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Combating Transportation Costs and Challenges With a TMS
As capacity constraints, driver shortages, government regulations and robust economic conditions continue to drive up logistics spending, companies are seeking new ways to cut costs.
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Time for TMS: More Shoppers Demand Real-Time Shipment Visibility
Traditional shipping processes are disappearing by the wayside.
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Digital Transportation Management and the Promise of Machine Learning
Here's how big data and machine learning will transform transportation management.
It’s Time for Late Adopters to Embrace Digital Transportation Management
Transportation management systems showed the highest ROI of all technology expenses, according to a recent survey of CIOs.
Dynamic Transportation Planning for Times of Unpredictable Global Trade
The escalating trade war has significant transportation strategy and operations implications.
Mexico Protester Blockages to Roads, Rails Have Cost More Than $50M
Teachers’ protests in the central state of Michoacan in Mexico have virtually detained all shipping by railroad in some parts of the country.
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Europe’s Most Important Shipping River Is Running Dry
Germany’s Rhine river slowdown is the latest sign of how even advanced industrial economies are increasingly fighting the effects of global warming.
Source: Bloomberg
Seven Ways the Cargo Ship Industry Is Cleaning Up Its Filthy Act
Air pollution from cars and factories has been regulated in much of the world since the 1970s. When it comes to the smoke-belching ships that carry global trade, the rules have been a lot looser.
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FedEx Tiptoes Into $9Bn Online Market for Bulky Deliveries
FedEx is testing delivery of bulky products, a $9bn market that couriers had left to more traditional trucking companies because large items don’t fit well in their sorting operations.
Packages are unloaded from a FedEx Corp. truck in New York City. Photo: Shutterstock.
U.S. Firm Building 'Cannabis Superhighway' Is Looking to Canada
MJIC says its superhighway will create the infrastructure to legally transport, distribute and sell marijuana amid a thicket of regulations that hamper the industry supply chain.
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How Emissions Rules Could Actually Make Shipping Fuel Dirtier
Thousands of merchant ships will soon start burning fuel containing higher concentrations of sulfur — a quirky outcome of rules that are supposed to cut emissions of the pollutant.
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Truckers Reap New Riches Thanks to Millennials
As consumers grow comfortable buying big, bulky goods online, national trucking companies are plowing investment into winning the business by displacing or buying up local operators.
Photo: Bloomberg
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