As some factions of the freight industry are still experiencing fallout from Friday’s CrowdStrike disruption, experts are reminded that there is room for growth in securing supply chains.
New technology and processes in supply chains have helped make the industry more resilient — but not enough to withstand every possible disruption.
Fallout from Ohio train derailment calls to mind disasters from years past.
As supply chain disruptions have become the norm in the past few years, Fictiv has worked with clients to create agility to manage the chaos.
Supply chain disruptions can be managed, said Gartner’s Brian Whitlock, but companies need to take a long view and make it a team effort.
Amazon Freight experts discuss freight market volatility during this FreightWaves Future of Supply Chain chat.
Freight railroads are committed to delivering the best possible service product for customers and consumers
The past two years have seen unprecedented volatility across freight markets globally, with everything from weather events and the Suez Canal debacle to the pandemic impacting decision-making for carriers, shippers […]
Beacon is a UK-based digital freight forwarder – one of many that have vowed to disrupt the freight forwarding industry.
Industry experience, continual innovation drive J.B. Hunt 360 technology platform
During this session, we will be hearing insights around how companies within the freight industry can best position themselves to minimize disruption through financial analysis and the proper technologies.
To share how companies can best respond to economic volatility and minimize supply chain disruption during times of uncertainty, FreightWaves and Redwood Logistics are partnering to present an hour-long webinar on Thursday, April 23 at 2pm EST. Key areas of discussion will include:
Peter Rentschler CEO of Carrier Direct helps supply chains harness the transformative power of technology.
Although it’s over 120 years old, there’s nothing ‘sprightly’ about Daimler. It’s a technological disrupter, automotive standard-setter and one of the FreightTech 25!
Brian Laung Aoaeh discusses innovation, technology, and disruption in the freight brokerage market.
FreightWaves, the industry-leading provider of 24/7 news, data and analytics for the global freight and logistics markets, announces the start of the nomination process for the 2020 FreightTech 100 Awards. […]
Donald Broughton writes a thought-provoking commentary about how technology has killed inflation.
New York Times bestselling author, three-time Golden Globe winner, and eight-time Oscar nominee Ben Mezrich will join FreightWaves LIVE Chicago as a keynote speaker this November. Mezrich’s ability to dive […]
FreightWaves is proud to deliver 24/7 news, data and industry insights, and now, as an extension of the FreightWaves brand, we’re combining the events previously known as Transparency and MarketWaves […]
Too much to talk about with too little time. Several key industry topics were bantered about by some of the best thought leaders in the industry on the final day […]
C.H. Robinson officials said their business model and technology has allowed the company to adapt through multiple cycles.
DHL showcased its Resilience360 platform at the 2019 LINK Conference in Orlando
FreightWaves is monitoring a number of trends that will impact the freight market in 2019. Digitization will play a key role in these trends as companies seek to optimize their supply chain processes.
The next big thing is food. Not just food, but hot food, and not just hot food but hot–delivered–food.
In times of mass disruption, it is often only after industry emerges out the other side that it realizes it’s been disrupted.
Startups and incumbents at the demos today are building transparency into their products. Historically freight has been very opaque. The change is emerging here and now.
Industry-wide ELD adoption is forging a yellow brick road for blockchain and other technological marvels.
A weather bomb hit the East Coast over the past two days and it has left a mark that will take shippers several days from which to recover.
The sharing economy is generally organized around a technology platform that facilitates the exchange of goods, assets, and services between people across a varied and dynamic collection of sectors.
While the holiday rush starts in North America a few weeks before Thanksgiving, there is a holiday rush going on already in China as well, and it impacts shipping.
TaaS seems like another in a long line of acronyms that have infiltrated the transportation industrypromising to disrupt the world as we know it. But what is TaaS, and why will this be an acronym that might deliver on its promise?
Steve Sashihara, CEO of Princeton Consultants, recently spoke about disruptive technologies and Big Data in the transportation space. Here are 9 areas of impact he identified. Each slide represents the belief that industry stakeholders surveyed have in digital disruption. (Click the arrow to scroll through).
