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Procurement and Sourcing, Freight

NYSHEX | September 01, 2022

NYSHEX is excited to partner with Hapag-Lloyd, a leading global liner shipping company, to improve and streamline the performance of its Quality Freight Product (QFP) contracts. The partnership will allow Hapag-Lloyd to deliver an enhanced customer experience by adding automated performance reporting and exception management to the carrier’s portfolio of industry-leading digital tools. Reporting on contract fulfillment has been a long-standing industry challenge, as static t...

Supply Chain Dive | January 27, 2020

Supply and demand for industrial warehouse space will increase in lockstep through 2021 as North American square footage dedicated to warehousing increases, but vacancy rates hold at roughly 5%, predicted Cushman & Wakefield in a report released Friday. In 2019, industrial real estate supply caught up with booming demand created by the swift expansion of e-commerce, reversing a nine-year trend of undersupply. Cushman & Wakefield pegs North American vacancy at 4.6% for the whole of 2019. ...

XPO | May 05, 2020

The pandemic resulted in more shippers looking for surge management in the first quarter, executives on XPO's first-quarter earnings call Tuesday. But this was not enough to bolster the company's revenue, which was down in its transportation and logistics segments as some of the company's customers shuttered operations due to the pandemic."Like others in the industry, we experienced a surge in volume late in the quarter from customers and the consumer staples sector, both ...

Transportation

Echo Global Logistics, Inc | May 06, 2022

Echo Global Logistics, Inc. ("Echo"), a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services, and Roadtex Transportation Management, Roadtex Transportation, and Roadtex Corp ("Roadtex"), a leading provider of integrated temperature-controlled supply chain solutions, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Echo to acquire Roadtex. "We've been following Roadtex and are very ...