Freight forwarder

Blume Global Introduces New Street Turns Solution for Ocean & Motor Carriers and IMCs

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Monday, October 26, 2020
Electric rail transport, J Church, N Judah, M Ocean View, F Market & Wharves, Outbound, K Ingleside, Rail transport, Freight forwarder, Inbound, L Taraval, Transport

Blume Street Turns significantly improves driver and truck utilization and increases turns while reducing congestion and CO2 emissions around ports and rail ramps.

Key Points: 
  • Blume Street Turns significantly improves driver and truck utilization and increases turns while reducing congestion and CO2 emissions around ports and rail ramps.
  • Blume Street Turns matches incoming imports with outgoing exports around marine terminals and outbound with inbound moves around rail ramps.
  • The company's rich ecosystem of ocean freight forwarders, ocean carriers, dray carriers and intermodal marketing companies (IMCs) provides an extremely large volume of outbound and inbound moves significantly increasing the opportunity for street turns.
  • "Traditionally, street turns are manual and difficult to coordinate, but with Blume Global, customers can enact a higher level of automation allowing for full optimization of the user's network," said Pervinder Johar, CEO, Blume Global.

United States Digital Freight Forwarding Market Report 2020-2025: Rise of Digital Freight Matching Platform Benefiting Trucking Companies - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Monday, October 26, 2020
Transport, Logistics, Supply chain management, Freight transport, Transport, Freight forwarder, Cargo, Supply chain management, Articles

The "United States Digital Freight Forwarding Market - Growth, Trends, and Forecasts (2020 - 2025)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • The "United States Digital Freight Forwarding Market - Growth, Trends, and Forecasts (2020 - 2025)" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • The United States Digital Freight Forwarding Market is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 20% during the forecasted period.
  • The United States Digital Freight Forwarding Market is competitive and is highly fragmented with presence of many players.
  • Digital freight forwarders (DFFs) use a digital platform to offer a broader range of logistics services than marketplaces and connectivity providers.

Freight Packing & Logistics Services in the United States - 2020 Industry Market Research Report - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Thursday, October 8, 2020
Retail, Other Retail, Freight transport, Articles, Logistics, Systems engineering, Cargo, Business, Human activities, APL Logistics, Freight forwarder

The "Freight Packing & Logistics Services in the US - Industry Market Research Report" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • The "Freight Packing & Logistics Services in the US - Industry Market Research Report" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • Also included are five year industry forecasts, growth rates and an analysis of the industry key players and their market shares.
  • The Freight Packing and Logistics Services industry has grown steadily over the five years to 2019 due to increases in trade and freight volumes, or goods transported in bulk.
  • The industry is composed of companies that provide consolidation of freight consignments, trade document preparation, packing, crating and otherwise preparing goods for transportation and logistics consulting services.

Global freight forwarders outsource data processing to reduce the expected impact of Brexit

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Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Freight transport, Freight forwarder, Customs broker, Brexit, Politics of the European Union, Articles, Human activities

Brexit's forecasted disruptions to global trade highlight the demand for external customs brokerage processing expertise and business continuity among international freight forwarders and 3PLs.

Key Points: 
  • Brexit's forecasted disruptions to global trade highlight the demand for external customs brokerage processing expertise and business continuity among international freight forwarders and 3PLs.
  • "From paperwork to border plans, tariff coding systems, and more potential Brexit-related changes to the supply chain during a pandemic may seem insurmountable," said DDC FPO's Global Technical Director, Richard Greening.
  • "Before investing in hiring and training in-house staff for post-Brexit administrative tasks, consider your technology stack and workforce plan."
  • The services - available in multiple languages - include Origin Data Capture, Import / Export Rating, Invoice Matching, and Customer Contact.

Equity Group Investments Fuels Able Freight Services Growth with Investment

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Monday, October 5, 2020
Supply chain management, Professional services, Other Transport, Maritime, Air, Transport, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Retail, Logistics, Supply chain management, Finance, Freight transport, Freight forwarder, Business, Supply chain management, Transport, Economy, Logistics, Farrow

Equity Group Investments (EGI), Sam Zells private investment firm, announced its investment in Able Freight Services (Able), a provider of airfreight forwarding services focused on time-sensitive perishable goods.

Key Points: 
  • Equity Group Investments (EGI), Sam Zells private investment firm, announced its investment in Able Freight Services (Able), a provider of airfreight forwarding services focused on time-sensitive perishable goods.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201005005662/en/
    This partnership reflects todays global growth opportunity in cold chain transportation and distribution, commented Sotir.
  • Able Freight Services is a leading provider of airfreight forwarding services with a focus on time-sensitive perishable goods.
  • The companys cold chain transportation and logistics services include air freight, ocean freight, warehousing/cold storage, brokerage, e-commerce, and related technology services.

Lynden’s global humanitarian work grows

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Articles, Freight transport, Logistics, Systems engineering, COVID-19 vaccine, Freight forwarder

As a global freight forwarder, Lynden serves as a logistics partner for customers by simplifying complex logistics requirements during health crises and natural disasters.

Key Points: 
  • As a global freight forwarder, Lynden serves as a logistics partner for customers by simplifying complex logistics requirements during health crises and natural disasters.
  • Lynden coordinates and ships materials and supplies to Uganda and other destinations to support the Global Oncology group and laboratories within its research group in Uganda.
  • Fred Hutch is just one customer of many that Lynden Internationals Global Health and Humanitarian group is attracting during the COVID crisis.
  • Lyndens recent work includes the shipping and warehousing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) from China , temperature-controlled shipping of frozen COVID test kits, movement of biological material for use in the search for a Coronavirus vaccine, and handling other fragile and sensitive freight for global customers.

C&K Holdings Forms New Strategic Partnership with Northstar Transport Services

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Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Freight transport, Transport, Freight forwarder, Customs broker, Cargo, Economy, Northstar, Cision, Iannelli, Human activities

CHICAGO RIDGE, Ill., Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --C&K Holdings is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with Northstar Transport Services.

Key Points: 
  • CHICAGO RIDGE, Ill., Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --C&K Holdings is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with Northstar Transport Services.
  • Northstar is led by Al Iannelli, the company's president and CEO and an industry leader in the intermodal trucking business.
  • "This new partnership will help us expand our network and increase our capacity to serve clients.
  • "This partnership will allow us to increase capacity and offer fully-integrated services to all steamship lines, freight forwarders, customs brokers, 3PLs, and beneficial cargo owners," said Iannelli.

Global Freight Forwarding Market (2020 to 2024) - Comparison of the Top Providers - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Monday, September 21, 2020
Transport, Logistics, Supply chain management, Freight transport, Freight forwarder, Forwarding, Email forwarding

The "Global Freight Forwarding 2020" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Key Points: 
  • The "Global Freight Forwarding 2020" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • This report provides a detailed, up to date look at the impact of COVID-19 on the market and other major trends and drivers affecting the market in 2020 and beyond.
  • Ti's Global Freight Forwarding 2020 report assesses all of the above whilst also containing our market leading market sizing and forecasting data, survey based research and comprehensive company profiles.
  • The 7 key sections of Global Freight Forwarding 2020:
    1.5 What are the Next Steps: Supply Chain Deglobalisation & Protectionism

Teleroute, Part of Alpega Group, Confirms Robust Recovery of Freight Offers After Coronavirus Shock

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Thursday, September 17, 2020
Trucking, Automotive, Technology, Logistics, Supply chain management, Transport, Software, Fleet management, Logistics, Systems engineering, Articles, Freight transport, Business, Human activities, Freight company, Freight forwarder

A comeback led by the flow of goods with France, with 40% of the freight offers published, and Germany (15%) as the main countries offering freight to the Italian market.

Key Points: 
  • A comeback led by the flow of goods with France, with 40% of the freight offers published, and Germany (15%) as the main countries offering freight to the Italian market.
  • The other freight offers, are divided into 28% imports, mainly from Italy and France, and exports (remaining 22%) whose main destinations are France and the Netherlands.
  • Alpega Group is a leading global logistics software company offering modular solutions that cover all transportation and logistics complexity needs.
  • Alpega is present in 80 countries worldwide and employs 500 people with 31 different nationalities.

Estes Forwarding Worldwide (EFW) Announce Several Key Initiatives as the Company Celebrates 18th Year of Business

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Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Cision, EFW, Freight forwarder, Companies

RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Estes Forwarding Worldwide (EFW) , a leading domestic and international freight forwarder in the United States, announced several key initiatives as the company celebrates going into their eighteenth year of business.

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  • RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Estes Forwarding Worldwide (EFW) , a leading domestic and international freight forwarder in the United States, announced several key initiatives as the company celebrates going into their eighteenth year of business.
  • Despite the worldwide and widespread disruption, EFW has continued to operate at a steady, solid-state remaining on track to exceed 2020 revenue projections.
  • As the company goes into its eighteenth year of business, several key initiatives were announced, which align with the EFW Experience, a catchphrase the company has adopted to define its key differentiators capacity, longevity, process, and reputation.
  • "Continuing to enhance the EFW Experience is what drives us an organization," explained Scott Fisher, CEO Estes Forwarding Worldwide.