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GSCW chat recap: Walmart on global omnichannel delivery

23 February 2021

Cogan discusses omnichannel delivery and e-commerce.

This fireside chat recap is from Day 2 of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week. Day 2 focuses on retail, building and construction.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Last-mile delivery in omnichannel global market

DETAILS: Nicholas Cogan and Matt Waller, dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, discuss last-mile delivery and omnichannel retailing from a global perspective. They examine how customer relationships vary across global markets and how important customer...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gscw-chat-recap:-walmart-on-global-omnichannel-delivery

The new shopping battle — Point of Sale

13 February 2021

This episode of Point of Sale is sponsored by ArcBest. ArcBest is more than logistics. Whatever you do, whatever you ship, ArcBest makes it easier for you to do business. ArcBest combines reliable capacity, innovative technology and trusted relationships to take the complexity out of your supply chain and keep your shipments moving. That’s what makes ArcBest more than logistics.

In recent years the narrative around online shopping has tended to focus on the importance of brick-and-mortar stores...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/the-new-shopping-battle-point-of-sale

Most recent FedEx pricing surcharges feel permanent

22 January 2021

This is an excerpt from Thursday’s Point of Sale retail supply chain newsletter.

FedEx announced Friday it will implement a new peak surcharge on Express and domestic residential Ground shipments, as it continues to deal with “elevated volume” due to the pandemic.

The surcharge will impact shippers that had a weekly average volume of more than 30,000 packages between Jan. 4 and Jan. 31. The fee will take effect Feb. 15 and apply until further notice, the carrier said.

Shippers who fall into this...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/most-recent-fedex-pricing-surcharges-feel-permanent

Port of LA records 11 straight months of declines

18 August 2020

July was good — 24% better than June — at the Port of Los Angeles, but volume was still down 6.11% year-over-year.

The Port of LA moved 856,389 twenty-foot equivalent units in July compared to 912,154 TEUs in the same month in 2019. That brought the port’s seven-month total to 4,618,278 TEUs, down 15.3% from the 5,450,793 TEUs recorded between Jan. 1 and July 31, 2019.

“The July volumes were good — seventh-best month in our 114-year history here at the Port of Los Angeles,” said Executive...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/port-of-la-records-11-straight-months-of-declines

East Coasts ports optimistic for post-coronavirus recovery

24 May 202022 May 2020

Officials from South Carolina and New York/New Jersey ports see an end in sight to blanked sailings and lower volumes.

“Despite what’s happening right now, we are very optimistic. We think May and June is going to be the worst of it in terms of COVID impacts and then I think we’re going to bounce back quite strong,” Sam Ruda, marine director for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), told the Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC) during its virtual annual meeting Thursday.

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https://www.freightwaves.com/news/east-coasts-ports-optimistic-for-post-coronavirus-recovery

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