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Great Logistics Sites & Services Leading the Way
In logistics, two Ws are most important—where and when. Choosing the right sites and services is vital for getting your products where they need to go, when they need to get there.
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Intermodal Transport: Finding the Road to the Right Track
Tight trucking capacity, the strong economy, and ongoing improvements on the rail are spurring more shippers to consider intermodal transportation. But finding a container, or a truck to haul it to or from the rail terminal, isn’t always easy, either.
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Maritime Update: Staying Above Water
Oh buoy! Here are five maritime developments that have shippers bobbing and drifting through economic riptides.
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Facing the Crowd
Companies use crowdsourcing throughout the supply chain—from product design to final-mile delivery—to become the leader of the pack.
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6 Ways to Find Hidden Capacity
As shippers puzzle their way through a record truckload capacity shortage, they have to change how they do business to find the right truck at the right time for the right price.
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Beyond Table Stakes: Freight Payment Clients Hold All the Cards
Advances in technology, increasing globalization, and the growth of e-commerce are upending the traditional freight bill audit and payment industry.
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Driver Wellness Programs: The Right Thing to Do
Wellness programs keep drivers healthy, and carriers wealthy and wise.
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2018 Top 100 Truckers
Inbound Logistics’ annual Top 100 Truckers directory provides an in-depth index of carriers that match shippers’ diverse and demanding needs. MORE TO THE STORY: Use the Trucking Decision Support Tool IL editors selected this year’s list from a pool of 300-plus trucking companies, evaluating surveys, conducting online research, and talking with shippers and truckers alike. […]
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2018 Trucking Perspectives
Insights collected through Inbound Logistics’ exclusive annual survey of shippers and truckers find the industry’s most significant trends and challenges.
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Send It Back! How to Manage E-Commerce Returns
Up to 30 percent of e-commerce orders shipped to customers wind up coming back. Here’s how smart retailers box up their reverse logistics strategies.
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Supply Chain Visibility: Can You See Me Now?
Using technology to gain a clear view into your supply chain can both wipe out costs and pour revenue to your bottom line.
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Tax, Energy, Land Incentives Drive Economic Development
Economic development partners collaborate to create incentive packages tailored to each company’s needs.
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Florida: Gateway to America, Pathway to Global Trade
For logistics and manufacturing companies, the Sunshine State is the place to grow.
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Protecting Your Supply Chain
Do you sometimes feel like cushioning your facilities and workers with bubble wrap to keep them safe? Here are five ways to pop that problem.
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Canada and the United States: A Resilient Relationship
The United States and its northern neighbor remain trading partners with staying power.
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Cold Chain Strategies That Beat the Summer Heat
Ensuring summer foods make it to consumers fresh and intact ain’t no picnic.
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A Fresh Look at Intermodal
With driver shortage and capacity issues affecting trucking, once wary shippers are taking a different view of rail intermodal.
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3PLs Put on the White Gloves
Logistics service providers reveal how they treat their customers like VIPs.
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Straighten Up and Fly Right
A logistics maxim holds that "air freight is an ocean shipment gone bad," says Neel Jones Shah, senior vice president and head of global air freight for Flexport Inc., an air and ocean freight forwarder. Many shippers likely can relate: They planned to move their goods using a less expensive but slower transportation mode. Then, […]
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The Automotive Supply Chain: Disruption Down the Road
As electric and autonomous vehicles, and new business models shift into gear, automakers and their suppliers will need more than GPS to navigate the bumpy terrain.
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