Year: 2020

(PRESS RELEASE) BONN, 22-Jan-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — Leading road freight services, DHL Freight, implements single Transport Management System (TMS) called ‘EVO’ catering all DHL freight operations in Europe. The IT system, EVO – comes from the term “evolution”, creates an efficiency that chains core business functions. EVO has been executed in all terminals in France. “EVO is …

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Technology innovators’ partnership combines Redwood’s Digital Transportation Management Platform with advanced analytics and carrier recommendation engines, with Transflo’s Velocity+, a leading portfolio of software and business process automation services, for real-time communications between shippers and carriers CHICAGO, Jan. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Redwood Logistics (Redwood), a leading logistics platform company, and Transflo, a leading mobile, telematics and business …

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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Improved ship utilization rates and investments in environmentally sustainable technologies for enhanced energy efficiency would significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions within navigation. A recent study carried out in the Laboratory of Industrial Management at Åbo Akademi University also indicates that such measures would contribute to lowering of freight costs. The results …

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Victoria Nugent An app designed to give rural Queenslanders a same day freight delivery option will launch this weekend. Fluxx is the brainchild of Alpha cattle producer Nick Dyer, who came up with the idea in July 2017, taking inspiration from existing sharing economy businesses such as Uber. “We’re 5km north of the Capricorn Highway …

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J.B. Hunt Transport Services [Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. on Jan. 17 reported gains in net income and operating revenue for the fourth quarter of 2019 and for the full year. The Lowell, Ark.-based transportation and logistics company said Q4 net income rose to $144.7 …

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The Cass Freight Index fell to its lowest level for 2019 in the month of December, with the shipments component of the index falling 7.9% and the expenditures component declining 6.2% year-over-year. “It wasn’t the prettiest month for the Cass Index, which means it wasn’t the best month in the freight world. Both the shipments …

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