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Spot Rates Fall as Price of Diesel Dips Below $2

With the national average diesel price falling below $2 per gallon, truckload rates on the spot market continued on a downward trend. Freight brokers usually quote a one-time price that includes both a line-haul portion and the fuel surcharge; declining fuel prices influence spot market rates significantly.

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Corning Awards Life Sciences Business to Kuehne & Nagel

Corning Incorporated has appointed Kuehne & Nagel to manage the distribution requirements for its Corning Life Sciences business in the Asia-Pacific market.

Are U.S. Rail Firms' Fortunes About to Go Off the Rails?

The last decade has been a golden one for shipping goods around the world's biggest economy, and American railways have been a rare example of capitalism working well, with a virtuous cycle of demand, giant profits, and vast investment in rolling stock and tracks.

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Cargo Not Specifically Addressed in Agreement to Resume U.S.-Cuba Flights

For the first time in more than 50 years, the skies over Cuba are opening up to scheduled service from the United States. The two countries signed a deal, officially allowing flights between their borders.

On-Time Performance of Container Vessel Industry Gets Off to Slow Start in 2016

Container service reliability started 2016 on a disappointing note as the average on-time performance slipped by 5.7 percentage points in January to 69.6 percent, according to Carrier Performance Insight, the online schedule reliability tool provided by Drewry Supply Chain Advisors.

Fifth of Large Food Manufacturers Surveyed Know Little or Nothing About Their Suppliers

Food manufacturers across the globe have admitted failing to put in place basic safeguards to protect vulnerable workers in their supply chains - almost one year on from laws to stop slavery, child labor and unethical working practices.

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Service Parts Operation Delivers: 500 Orders/Day - 40% Less People

Challenge: This service parts organization needed to handle over 500 orders per day and 170,000 items in their inventory. They needed to move from a paper-base to automate through system-directed processes, gain real-time visibility and tracking of parts and orders throughout their supply chain.

Long-Term Transportation Management Partnership Saves Client Millions

Challenge: Wide transportation footprint; Different ERP systems across multiple platforms; Gaps in existing transportation network; Maintain core competency of steel-making/processing; Maintain quality/safety culture; Consolidating transportation metric source data

Last Year's Sales of Lift Trucks in North America Best Since 2006

The lift truck market in North America is at an all-time record high in the material handling industry. Total retail orders in all classes, excluding exports, totaled 225,534 units in 2015. It is the first year lift truck sales are higher than the industry's pre-recession level of 215,000 units in 2006.

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Top European Airfreight Carriers Start 2016 Off Well, But Caution Urged

The big three Western European air carriers have all reported their January cargo results, and all three show improving performance.

Ocean Shipping Industry's Fortunes Rise - and Fall - on Business With China

Shipbuilders, container lines and port operators feasted on China's rise and the global resources boom. Now they're among the biggest victims of the country's slowdown and the worldwide decline in demand for oil rigs and other gear amid the oil price plunge.

Logistics Challenges Never Greater – Tools to Manage Costs Never Better

For many major B2B enterprises, logistics networks have never been more complex. The increasing prevalence of operations that are global - with growing numbers of production sites and clients that could be anywhere on earth - has introduced challenges that didn't exist to the same degree at an earlier time. The good news is that there has also never before been a moment when there were more tools and more opportunities to optimize logistics costs than now.

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