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Current Trends and the Potential for Automation in International Transportation Management


August 29, 2011

Managing international freight shipping operations presents a set of challenges that potentially expose shippers to risky and costly misfortunes.

  • Changeable rates and hidden surcharges

  • Inefficient shipping routes

  • Missed delivery-to-transit commitments

  • Lengthy timelines, capacity constraints

  • Size and weight factors, and safety and security issues are among the problems that test the air and ocean shipping landscape.

Decisions shippers make concerning freight partnerships involve careful and thorough evaluations that assuredly must spotlight these issues. Solutions enabling shippers to better understand, negotiate, and adhere to contract provisions can avert many of these financial and operational threats.


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