PalletTrader CEO optimistic on market recovery

Pallets are essential to the transportation industry. Because of the ubiquitous presence of pallets in shipping, the state of the pallet industry can provide insight into the health of the supply chain.

John Vaccaro, founder and CEO of PalletTrader, the world’s first online pallet marketplace, believes the supply chain is in the final stages of recovery.

“I think we all realized that there was a contraction overall in the supply chain a few months ago. Transportation, the way I review it right...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/pallettrader-ceo-optimistic-on-market-recovery

Pallets finally get their due with online marketplace for buyers, sellers

Tractor trailer loaded with pallets

For all the underappreciated parts of the supply chain, no item could be more accurately called its Rodney Dangerfield than the ubiquitous wooden pallet. 

Often tossed aside, left outside or simply burned, the pallet serves only one purpose. Yet without it, global commerce might come to a screeching halt.

Talk about getting no respect.

The history of the pallet goes back almost 100 years or perhaps even more as some online searches indicate it may date to the 1880s. Regardless of when the pallet...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/pallets-finally-get-their-due-with-online-marketplace-for-buyers-sellers

FOSC chat: Shortage of pallets driven by increase in inventory

Rachel Premack and George Brehovsky sit on the FreightWaves stage during The Future of Supply Chain event.

This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves’ The Future of Supply Chain live event in Rogers, Arkansas. For more information and content from the event, click here.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Forecasting demand and moving product during the pandemic.

DETAILS: Rachel Premack, editorial director at FreightWaves, and George Brehovsky chat about the shortage of pallets, how to manage inventory efficiently and how long CHEP’s pallets can be reused.

SPEAKER: Brehovsky is the director of supply...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fosc-chat-shortage-of-pallets-driven-by-increase-in-inventory

Drilling Deep: Pallets are latest thing to get squeezed in supply chain

There is almost nothing that is not being impacted by rising commodity prices and tight availability in the supply chain.

Add the humble pallet to the list. On this week’s Drilling Deep podcast, host John Kingston speaks with an expert on pallet markets, Matt Zielenski of the Freedonia Group, on how the price of lumber is affecting pallets and where there are other signs of squeezes in the pallet supply chain.

Also on this week’s Drilling Deep: a price for West Texas Intermediate crude oil we...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/drilling-deep-pallets-are-latest-thing-to-get-squeezed-in-supply-chain

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