Bidfreight Port Operations

Supply Chain Dive | January 27, 2020

The ocean freight contracting season is upon us, and carriers and shippers will soon head to the negotiating table to lock in annual rates. An X-factor this year could complicate matters: the International Maritime Organization's low-sulfur regulations, which required container lines to comply with a sulfur emissions limit of no more than 0.5% mass by mass starting Jan. 1. In turn, refiners had to boost production of compliant fuels and shippers had to ready their budgets for freight price h...

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Descartes | November 23, 2020

On Nov. 6th Descartes, a worldwide pioneer in joining organizations in business by providing cloud-based logistics and supply chain arrangements, acquired Shiptrack, a provider of cloud-based versatile asset the executives and shipment tracking arrangements, with an end goal to consolidate their particular innovations and experience to improve the last mile in the conveyance cycle, among different angles. 2020 has been a significant year for the e-commerce sector, as an ever incre...

Sedex | October 14, 2020

In an industry first, responsible business membership organisation Sedex has launched a new virtual assessment tool that enables businesses to continue assessing suppliers and protecting workers in their supply chain during the coronavirus pandemic. The Virtual Assessment is a human rights due diligence tool that a social auditor uses to assess the performance of a site remotely through the use of video conferencing, gaining as much insight as possible into site conditions, management systems an...

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RKVST | September 05, 2022

RKVST, a leading provider of supply chain integrity, transparency and trust, announces a Free and subscription-based Team tier of its award-winning enterprise SaaS solution, allowing organizations of any size to collaborate on and share data in near real-time, confident in the trustworthiness of that data. The RKVST platform removes the hassles, mistakes and risk associated with the manual processes and paperwork involved in sharing data across organizations, enabling all partners...