Shipping and Freight
How Freight Forwarding Affects Cargo Transportation
Freight forwarding is utilized to transport cargo by land, sea, and air around the world. This infographic includes data that shows how transportation modes used in freight forwarding affect international shipping. Freight forwarding is the coordinated shipment of...
Leveraging Cross Docking to Reduce Costs, Damages, and Delivery Time to Consumers
Leveraging Cross Docking to Reduce Costs, Damages, and Delivery Time to ConsumersExplore how companies can benefit from cross dockingThis blog has a variety of things you should know that explain what cross docking is, its use in final mile delivery, and the benefits...
Everything You Need to Know about the 2022 Ocean Shipping Reform Act
Everything You Need to Know about the 2022 Ocean Shipping Reform Act An overview of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act 2022 and what led to its passage. The pandemic brought about issues that have caused continual disruption to global trade. Many countries were forced to...
Cut Shipping Costs by Using Zone Skipping and Freight Consolidation
Cut Shipping Costs by Using Zone Skipping and Freight ConsolidationZone Skipping and Freight Consolidation Keep Shipping Costs DownAs costs soar and consumers continue to demand fast, low-cost shipping and delivery of online orders, the transportation and logistics...
Small Parcels, Big Challenges : The Supply Chain & Small Parcel Shipping
Small parcel shipping plays an important role in D2C delivery due to the increasing popularity of e-commerce. When shopping online consumers are most often buying more compact, lightweight items...
Dimensional Weight Shipping Part 4: Combat Dimensional Weight Shipping with Today’s Top Tools 2014
Dimensional Weight Shipping Savings In the fast paced world of supply chain/logistics, it is essential to continually reevaluate your business’ technology strategy to ensure that the needs of your customers are met while keeping costs low. The recent trend of major...
Dimensional Weight Shipping Part 3: Five Cost Saving Tips for Dimensional Weight Shipping with FedEx and UPS
Cost Saving Tips for Dimensional Weight Shipping. Companies using FedEx and UPS will be affected by the upcoming change in shipping rate calculation. You can influence how much this impacts your business. In this video we will share a few tips on how to reduce the...
Dimensional Weight Shipping Part 2: How to Calculate Dimensional Weight Rates for UPS and FedEx
Dimensional weight rates changes 2014 | FedEx and UPS Changes. A change is coming soon. If your business uses UPS or FedEx for shipping, you will be directly affected. It is now more important than ever to understand how to calculate the shipping rates so that you can...