supply chain management

As the transportation and logistics industry moves into bid season, we're starting to see the effect of lessons learned from 2018. Both shippers and brokers are becoming more creative, with both sides trying to proactively manage risk and stay flexible enough to seize opportunities as they...

Technological improvements continue to improve manufacturing processes. And manufacturing is always relevant to the supply chain; growth in the manufacturing sector means more demand in for the freight market. Inefficiency usually leads to waste materials that in some cases cannot be reused. In...

Daseke Inc (NASDAQ: DSKE), the largest flatbed, specialized transportation and logistics solutions company in North America, has joined the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA), an industry group working to develop standards and promote the effective use of the emerging technology....

Good day, everyone. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve's manufacturing index, one of the broad indices that  businesses and investors toss into their analytical stew, rose in January to a seasonally adjusted reading of 17 from 9.1 in December. Any reading above zero indicates improving...

The keys to UPS Inc.'s (NYSE: UPS) fastest-growing and arguably its most pivotal 21st century business have been handed to an outsider. Earlier this week, Philippe Gilbert took the reins as the first president of the company's Supply Chain and Freight operation, one of the Atlanta-...

As we pointed out last week, December was a month of growing uncertainty and severe declines in the U.S. financial markets. Since then, equity valuations have attempted to recover, as have many commodity prices. There is an abundance of theories but nothing close to a consensus view. The ongoing...

Last year was one of the strongest years for transportation and logistics companies. E-commerce continued to gain market share and increase demand for parcel shippers; tariff uncertainty and freight pull-forward put a premium on warehousing space and services; steamship lines achieved something...

The Port of Los Angeles finished up a strong 2018 for container moves, and 2019 is starting out strong as well. But the volumes coming through the port might be too much of a good thing for drayage carriers in the region, who report ongoing delays in moving containers in and out of the Port's...

FedEx Express, the air and international unit of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), has reached a conditional agreement to acquire the international express business of Flying Cargo Group, FedEx Express' long-standing Israeli agent. Flying Cargo Group is one of the most world's most iconic...

Logistics and transport industry figures have reacted with alarm following the British Government's significant defeat in the House of Commons yesterday, fearing that the result brings a disastrous "no deal Brexit" closer, but a bounce in the value of the pound shows the markets are...