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The Logistics and Supply Chain News that Shaped 2024
In an annual tradition, LM group news editor Jeff Berman has conducted a thorough review of the expansive number of logistics- and supply chain-related news articles reported, written, and posted by the Logistics Management editorial staff over the course of the calendar year in order to create this list of the top news articles over that period. This list is not based on page view …
Top 50 Third Party Logistics (3PLs) Providers 2024: Not out of the ...
2024年6月1日 · Last year proved to be challenging for third-party logistics (3PLs) providers. Transportation rates plummeted, fuel prices skyrocketed, retaining and attracting talent became difficult, warehouse space tightened, rules and regulations increased, competition surged, and the supply chain faced frequent disruptions.
2025 Rate Outlook: Navigating the unpredictable
2024年12月12日 · The webinar provides insights from freight industry experts on the U.S. freight economy, rate and capacity forecasts across major transport modes, and strategies to help shippers budget effectively amidst ongoing market volatility.
Ocean Carriers Trends 2024: Unprecedented uncertainty
Many shippers are talking to their carriers to mitigate the risk of port delays when and if the ILA conflict happens. “Routing via the U.S. West Coast will be more common,” says Damas, adding that shippers who saw their supply chains being undermined by lack of reliable shipping—or lack of shipping capacity—in 2021-2022 have been working on making their supply chains more …
Top 25 Freight Forwarders: Top forwarders continue to sail …
As if 2021 wasn’t bad enough, 2022 is presenting additional layers of disruption to global freight markets with further COVID-related lockdowns, especially in China; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; exceptionally strong increases in energy prices; heightened competition for talent; and inflation and recession worries that are hitting multiple geographies and supply chains at different ...
Global Logistics: Challenges in our changing world
What a year. The COVID-19 pandemic set in and made a massive impact on global trade and amplified existing logistics challenges around the world; lockdowns triggered rapid growth in e-commerce, putting additional strain on already strained freight networks; and a last-minute Brexit deal was finally reached following a few chaotic weeks at the UK border.
2024 State of Freight Forwarders: What’s next is happening now
Meanwhile, the industry is still feeling the effects of the surge in mergers and acquisitions. “It shows no sign of abating in 2024,” reports Sai Kiran Baliji, lead analyst of logistics research at Mordor Intelligence Analysts. With e-commerce gaining momentum and a rising influx of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) entering the arena, Baliji sees the race for market …
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Latest Logistics Management News. As the days of slow, invisible supply chains that “worked behind the scenes” continue to fade in the rearview mirror, companies are improving their demand forecasting, gaining real-time visibility across their networks and streamlining their operations—and its software that makes that all possible.
Global Labor Rates: China is no longer a low-cost country
The race to manufacture and source products in China started in the late 1990s and continued for two decades.. As China ascended to the World Trade Association in 2001, accessibility of this low-cost labor and low-cost operations country looked very attractive to global manufacturers, and many companies set up factories in China or began sourcing Chinese parts and products.