["Sharing instead of owning" is not some flash-in-the-pan trend. As a new business model, it offers many opportunities, especially for logistics. DHL has just released a report on this evolving revolution underway.
Category: Trends
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Room for Improvement
[Results of the Freight Connections survey on the use of digital freight exchanges.
Freight volume at all-time high
[In the second quarter of 2017, the TimoCom transport barometer recorded not merely peak values but in fact the highest freight volumes since statistics began.
Pilfering is on the rise
[The damage of cargo thefts often far exceeds the actual value of the goods – because they threaten delays in the supply chains.
Losing momentum, but still riding high
[During the first half of 2017, the numbers of new heavy goods vehicles (HGV) in Europe grew by just 2,2 %, compared with the relevant timeframe 2016.
Your voice: Virtual cargo scheduling
Virtual cargo scheduling
Knowledge means quality
[In its Logistics Performance Index (LPI), the World Bank surveyed the logistics industries of 160 states. It examined a plethora of different logistics criteria – including the “competence and quality of logistics services”.
The quick way across the Alps
[Daily with DHL to Switzerland and Italy
Reduced downward margin
[Oil prices were unable to maintain the high level they presented at the beginning of the year, of well above USD 50 per barrel. Accordingly, diesel prices are also most ten percent lower than those quoted during the winter.