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Logistics Management: Getting creative with transportation: Cost cutting and service-level improvement
These two companies are leveraging strong industry partnerships and technology to save money, improve service levels, and streamline their logistics and transportation functions for future
DC Velocity: Parcel express market confronts a shifting landscape
The nation’s leading parcel carriers are struggling to evolve as costs rise, the market fragments, competition intensifies, and consumers trade down to slower, lower-revenue delivery
Trucking Dive: Pricing, demand to stay lackluster for rest of year, analysts say
Pricing is expected to remain relatively flat for LTL and truckload rates in Q4, according to the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index.
Supply Chain Dive: UPS, FedEx shipping discounts counter growing surcharges
Per-package ground parcel rates reached their lowest levels since 2021, according to the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index.
Reuters: UPS seen grappling with hit from cheap deliveries ahead of key holiday season
Wall Street expects United Parcel Service to report a rise in adjusted quarterly profit on Thursday, even as concern mounts over stubbornly soft demand for
Journal of Commerce: Hurricanes not seen as truckload pricing catalyst despite relief demand
As damage from Helene and Milton is being tallied, logistics experts say the storms won’t do much to accelerate spot and contract truckload pricing in
Food Logistics: How Cold Chain Navigates the Unpredictable While Innovating for the Future
Most experts project 2025 to be much like how it was in 2024—navigating the unpredictable while innovating for the future. Here’s why.
Supply & Demand Executive: 5 Ways to Mitigate and Manage Logistics Network Disruptions
When you see the signs of impending crisis, you can leverage optionality to help you ameliorate the worst of the effects and continue to function.
