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Whether it’s a girl (hello, Florence!) or boy (we’re talking to you, Michael!), each hurricane that hits a U.S. coast has the power to disrupt

FedEx Unveils 2021 Holiday Peak Surcharge (And One After-Christmas Surprise) Remember when we told you not to be surprised if FedEx announced holiday peak surcharge

I’ve begun receiving e-mails from some of my LTL freight carriers and other transportation carriers saying that they’re moving to a new method of bill

When most people are asked to name their biggest fears, hurricanes don’t even make the top ten. But in recent years, storms with names like

Last month, FedEx temporarily cut service for 1,400 LTL customers in order to protect its service levels for other customers. How can I guarantee something

Do you feel like a mountaineer? Maybe you should, because now that UPS’s holiday peak season charges have started to take effect, the cost of

Our ears were burning in a really good way on June 28 when GARTNER released its 2021 Market Guide for Freight Audit and Payment Providers and named AFS as one of its “Representative Vendors in FAP.”

As customary, one has followed the other. UPS announced peak season surcharges June 25th after FedEx extended theirs from earlier in the year. UPS, however,

The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore has never killed anyone on national television. But we’re pretty sure we witnessed a moment when he was tempted to

Last month, you promised to comment on some of the major impacts that COVID-19 has had on businesses and their supply chains. So go ahead.

How do your company’s digitization efforts stack up? And how do your biggest digitization concerns compare? Check out these results from ToolsGroup and CSCMP’s latest

Temperatures aren’t the only things that will be rising this summer. Effective June 21, FedEx will be extending all of the peak season surcharges it introduced earlier this year — and increasing the price tag of three.

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THEY SAID IT

Notable Quotes From Around The Industry

"Regardless of who wins in November, we can expect to see an activist industrial policy stance and continued or increased tariffs. Both candidates’ platforms will have massive effects on global supply chains, and changes could happen very quickly, so it pays to prepare and enable business agility.”

- Alex Saric, Ivalua CEO, in Logistics Management

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