A container becomes available at Felixstowe. The port system knows. Your planner doesn't, not until someone logs in, searches the reference, and updates the job by hand. By the time that happens, the VBS slot you needed may already be gone. Where the problem actually...
Are you working with a “status feed”? A screen showing where things are, colour-coded by exception, updated at intervals? It looks like visibility. The problem is that by the time something turns red, the window to prevent the failure has usually already closed. For...
Demurrage and detention charges rank consistently among the most frustrating costs in intermodal logistics. They are avoidable, but the information needed to avoid them is often scattered across multiple systems or spreadsheets, delayed, or held in the wrong place....
Why the future of intermodal logistics isn't about seeing more. It's about understanding more. By Darren Palfrey, CEO, The Fargo Group For more than two decades, the logistics industry has pursued a single ambition. Visibility. We wanted to know where our containers...
When is the last time you asked an intermodal customer what they actually want and they responded "more data visibility."? What they are demanding instead is the ability to commit to on-time arrivals, accurate documentation and...
Bespoke container conversion jobs are complex to manage. Each one starts as a design brief and ends as an invoice. But between those two points, there are estimates to build, customer approvals to chase, parts to source, staff to allocate, and quality checks to...
Most inland terminals have a sustainability goal sitting somewhere in a board deck. Reduce carbon. Cut fuel. Work towards net zero by a date that still feels comfortably distant. What fewer terminals have is a clear line between that goal and the software that runs...
Every intermodal planner knows the scenario. Two containers. Two trucks. Two drivers. Two runs - both heading in the same direction. One is empty on the way out, the other on the way back. The maths is obvious. Finding the right combinations in time to act is not. In...
Container logistics planning has become much more complex in recent years. As container volumes grow and networks become more connected across road, rail, and terminal operations, traffic planners now oversee a level of operational coordination that didn't exist a...