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November 19, 2024

Rail visibility is hard. OpenTrack makes it easier.

When a container arrives at the rail ramp, you don’t have much time to pick it up before demurrage starts accruing. That’s why it’s important to have accurate visibility into ETAs, LFDs, and availability.

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Ever wondered how sophisticated digital freight brokers have such great on-time delivery metrics even at massively increasing scale? Time to stop wondering. Here’s the system one freight broker uses to make sure they don’t miss pickups, schedule delivery appointments with minimal back-and-forth, and deliver on time.
November 19, 2024
OpenTrack’s Visibility and Exception Based Management Tools Boost On-Time Delivery for a Top Drayage Provider
End-to-end Container Visibility
Delivery Visibility
Exception Monitoring
Freight Forwarders
Trucking Carriers
Exploring what it was like for shippers before visibility became a thing and the role of visibility in modern shipping operations.
November 19, 2024
The Impact of True Visibility on Shipping Operations
Supply chains across North America are bracing for potential disruption to freight flow amid the looming threat of worker strikes.
November 19, 2024
Strike Looms As North American Dock and Rail Workers Remain Unhappy With Current Negotiations
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Your operations depend on accurately knowing when shipments will arrive. Inaccurate ETAs are costing your organization time and money. OpenTrack’s ETAs can help. Our data shows that OpenTrack ETAs are more accurate than those provided by one of the other data sources alone.
November 19, 2024
Why OpenTrack ETAs are more accurate
End-to-end Container Visibility
Ocean Visibility
Predictive Visibility
Importers
Exporters
Containers obviously play a vital role in international shipping, and tracking them allows shippers and supply chains the opportunity to optimize the entire logistics process through planning, risk mitigation, and streamlined communication.
November 19, 2024
Using Ocean Container Tracking Software to Optimize Container Efficiency
How to take advantage of container tracking solutions to navigate peak seasons such as those of the retail, fashion, and office supplies industries.
November 19, 2024
Navigating Peak Season With Transparency: Resilience Across the Retail Sector
The freight economy is booming, and the industry is moving forward. Explore the latest news for shippers, freight forwarders, and BCOs across the global freight market.
November 19, 2024
Baltimore Gets Closure, Minnesota DOT Funding Rail Project, and Biden Continues Trade War With China
With approximately half of the total value of global trade transported via containers, container tracking software has become an invaluable asset not only to supply chain professionals but to all businesses involved in the global marketplace.
November 19, 2024
Ocean Container Tracking Software: The Value of Integrated Visibility Solutions
With only three months remaining until the start of peak season 2024, we’re taking a look at three key trends facing shippers, and how vital ocean container tracking software solutions provide them with the resilience needed to strategically navigate a volatile peak season.
November 19, 2024
Peak Season 2024: Three Trends for Shippers to Know
Our monthly news curation explores the latest developments across the global freight market, including a ship seizure and Russia entering the Red Sea.
November 19, 2024
Logistics vs. Geopolitics: Iranians Seize an Israeli Vessel, and Russia Enters the Red Sea
In a highly volatile port landscape, leveraging ocean container tracking for maximum performance can mean the difference between successful supply chains or operations rife with disruption.
November 19, 2024
Beyond the Sea: Ocean Container Tracking for Unparalleled Port Performance
The recent closure of the Port of Baltimore has prompted a significant redirection of cargo to alternative ports along the Eastern seaboard. In this blog post, we leverage OpenTrack data to examine where cargo is being diverted, how this affects ETAs, and how it impacts Port Performance.
November 19, 2024
A look at the immediate impacts of the Baltimore port closure
While disruption is nothing new for the global supply chain, the pace at which the industry is now being asked to contend with major disruptions is greater than ever. As a result of climate-change induced weather events, an increasingly hostile geopolitical landscape, and the threat of continued labor action, the supply chain is now facing a perfect storm.
November 19, 2024
The Perfect Storm: Ocean Container Tracking in a Volatile Logistics Landscape
The latest news in shipping, from U.S Mexico import surges to new partnerships in off-wind installations, and carriers across the Red Sea taking a hit.
November 19, 2024
Surge in U.S. Imports, Mexico-China Nexus, and the Red Sea Domino Effect
With virtually every global industry reliant in some way upon the smooth operations of maritime logistics hubs, today’s leading businesses are rethinking their approach to port performance.
November 19, 2024
In a Volatile Logistics Landscape, It’s Time to Rethink Port Performance
Navigate maritime complexities with OpenTrack's February newsletter – Declining Spot Rates, Red Sea Houthi Attacks, Maersk In Air Freight. Stay informed!
November 19, 2024
Declining Spot Rates, Red Sea Houthi Attacks, Maersk Goes Digital
As automotive manufacturers work to build efficient supply chains in an era of disruption, supply chain resilience is increasingly vital. With OpenTrack, automotive manufacturers can leverage innovative ocean container tracking solutions to build the efficient, resilient supply chains demanded by a highly dynamic global logistics landscape.
November 19, 2024
Ocean Container Tracking: The Key to Balancing Resilience and Efficiency in Automotive Supply Chains
OpenTrack & Cargologik Announce Strategic LogTech Partnership.
November 19, 2024
Cargologik taps OpenTrack for New Premium Logistics Visibility Offering
Whether it be the catastrophic impacts of climate change, an increasingly volatile geopolitical landscape, or any number of threats to supply chain stability, today’s shippers are living in an era rife with disruptions.
November 19, 2024
The Era of Disruption: Leveraging Ocean Container Tracking in a Volatile Logistics Landscape
November 19, 2024
Maersk-Hapag Lloyd Co-Op, Red Sea Chaos, Rising Tanker Rates
As the global maritime supply chain continues to grapple with a season of disruptions, shippers and logistics professionals around the globe are struggling to build effective resilience strategies to mitigate the consequences of a volatile logistics industry.
November 19, 2024
Drayage Forecast: The Cascading Effect of the Crisis in the Red Sea
With Maersk and other major carriers diverting shipments around the Cape of Good Hope, which can add up to two weeks of additional transit time to shipments, shippers are under pressure to develop effective resilience strategies.
November 19, 2024
Red Sea Shutdown: Understanding the Supply Chain Crisis in the Red Sea
Recent disruptions in the Red Sea have sent shockwaves through the shipping industry, indicating that tanker and container shipping rates could be impacted.
November 19, 2024
Red Sea Chaos, Somali Pirates, Lead to Rising Container Rates
As the ILU advises its members to prepare for potential labor action, it’s time for shippers to look at their own preparations for an East Coast strike in 2024.
November 19, 2024
As Threats of an East Coast Port Strike Loom, Shippers Build Resilience
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the OpenTrack Weekly Transportation Digest! This week’s edition leads off with a look at a recent attack by Yemen rebels targeting shipping in the Red Sea. This roundup of the news and trends shaping the transportation industry also includes items on ports in Texas, New Orleans, and Oakland, as well as an update on the concern surrounding aging rail infrastructure in the United States.
November 19, 2024
Perilous Waters: Yemen Rebels Attack, Raising Shipping Chokepoint Risks
As West Coast volumes surge, shippers turn to OpenTrack's Ocean Container Tracking for real-time visibility, analytics, and proactive decision-making.
November 19, 2024
As Volumes Shift, Shippers Rely on Container Tracking
As the world contends with the fallout of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, we’re exploring how shippers can use freight visibility for resilience.
November 19, 2024
Leveraging Freight Visibility in Times of Global Conflict
As U.S. import numbers begin to increase, shippers are reminded once again of the need for end to end supply chain visibility. Is your business ready?
November 19, 2024
With Imports on the Rise Once More, Is it Time to Invest in Supply Chain Visibility?
In a volatile maritime environment, shippers are turning to ocean container tracking to bolster operations across the maritime supply chain.
November 19, 2024
How Ocean Container Tracking Software Optimizes Maritime Operations
Discover how technology is reshaping the future of drayage operations for greater efficiency and success in the world of logistics. Explore now!
November 19, 2024
Future-Focused Drayage: Building Effective Drayage Operations Through Technology
Today’s logistics professionals are under greater pressure than ever to provide seamless service. Find out how end-to-end supply chain visibility can help.
November 19, 2024
3 Reasons Why Today’s Shippers Demand End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility
In a dynamic maritime industry, shippers are getting back to basics with ocean container tracking to improve visibility, accountability, and efficiency.
November 19, 2024
Ocean Container Tracking: Visibility, Accountability, and Efficiency
Container drayage is an important consideration for shippers wishing to cut costs and boost efficiencies. Six steps will simplify the process.
November 19, 2024
Six Steps to Streamlined Container Drayage
Software automation enables shippers to build supply chain resilience through visibility, analytics, enhanced collaboration, and automated awareness, allowing shippers to meet increasing customer demands.
November 19, 2024
Using Software Automation to Bolster Supply Chain Resilience
With tentative agreements in the U.S. and Canada, it’s time to consider how technology can help shippers prepare for the next strike. Learn more now.
November 19, 2024
West Coast Recap: What’s Happening with the ILWU?
For many shippers, container drayage is a weak point in complex supply chains. Innovation is helping smart shippers turn their weakness into a strength.
November 19, 2024
From Weakness to Strength: Leveraging Technology Against the Challenges of Container Drayage
With rising per diem charges, smart shippers are investing in ocean container tracking. How are shippers leveraging innovation against charges?
November 19, 2024
Tired of Rising Per Diem Charges, Shippers Invest in Ocean Container Tracking
Following several difficult years for the ocean transportation industry, freight shippers are building resilience through visibility in supply chain 4.0.
November 19, 2024
Building Resilience Through Visibility in Supply Chain 4.0
As the ocean freight market continues to struggle, shippers are taking the opportunity to reinvest in core values: efficiency, collaboration, and resilience.
November 19, 2024
As the Ocean Freight Market Sinks, Shippers Swim
As blank sailings continue to take their toll on the struggling global ocean container industry, shippers are looking for solutions. Learn more now.
November 19, 2024
Are Blank Sailings Here to Stay?
With port charges on the rise, shippers are searching for solutions. Learn how smart shippers are using innovation to tackle the problem of port charges.
November 19, 2024
3 Strategies to Fight Back Against Rising Port Charges
In today’s high-stakes transportation landscape, shippers can’t afford to have their ocean freight visibility stop at the blue dot. Learn more now.
November 19, 2024
Beyond the Blue Dot: Building Comprehensive Ocean Freight Visibility
After the Good Friday work stoppage, shippers are searching for innovative strategies to boost resilience. Is ocean container tracking software the answer?
November 19, 2024
As West Coast Labor Disputes Heat Up, Shippers Turn to Ocean Container Tracking Software
As ocean container volumes plummet, shippers are seeing a significant increase in blank sailings. For nervous shippers, is better visibility the solution?
November 19, 2024
With Blank Sailings on the Rise, Shippers Seek Solutions
Facing changing tides in demurrage and detention, shippers are turning to innovative solutions to mitigate the effects of demurrage and detention charges.
November 19, 2024
D&D in 2023: How Shippers Are Navigating the Changing Tides of Demurrage and Detention
As the logistics industry embraces the digital supply chain, shippers are noticing. Learn how the digital supply chain can optimize your operations.
November 19, 2024
How the Digital Supply Chain Optimizes Ocean Freight Operations
As shippers continue to look for innovative solutions to new problems, many are turning to optimized ocean freight tracking through an integrated API.
November 19, 2024
Why API? How Smart Shippers Use API to Optimize Ocean Freight Tracking
Facing a chaotic logistics landscape, shippers need the best ocean container tracking software. Read how to find the best software for your operations.
November 19, 2024
6 Questions to Find the Best Ocean Container Tracking Software for Your Operations
After the transport industry’s biggest breakup, shippers are turning to ocean container tracking. With 2M in shambles, here’s what shippers need to know.
November 19, 2024
The Big Split: How Ocean Container Tracking is Helping Shippers Navigate The End of the 2M Alliance
Continued rate increases from the Federal Reserves are forcing shippers back to the drawing board. Is ocean freight visibility the solution to recent rate hikes?
November 19, 2024
What do Interest Rate Hikes Mean for Ocean Shipping and Ocean Freight Visibility?

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