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BlueYonder
MARCH 23, 2018
As soon as the first robot arrived at a FedEx shipping hub in the heart of North Carolina tobacco country early last year, talk of pink slips was in the air. Workers had been driving the “tuggers” that navigated large and irregular items across the vast concrete floor of the 630,000-square-foot freight depot since it opened in 2011.
BlueYonder
MARCH 23, 2018
As soon as the first robot arrived at a FedEx shipping hub in the heart of North Carolina tobacco country early last year, talk of pink slips was in the air. Workers had been driving the “tuggers” that navigated large and irregular items across the vast concrete floor of the 630,000-square-foot freight depot since it opened in 2011.
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Material Handling & Logistics
DECEMBER 2, 2018
Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2014 : hybrid DCs, 3-D prototypes, location-based inventory system, and more.
GTG Technology Group
DECEMBER 16, 2015
TruckerPath, founded in 2013, already accumulated more than $20 million in funding. ” Currently, third party brokers match shipping companies with freight carriers; it has worked this way for years. Essentially, the app would limit or remove the need for freight brokers and put orders directly into carriers’ hands.
Material Handling & Logistics
AUGUST 14, 2018
But some Class 1 railroads, CSX in particular, are cutting back on intermodal service to favor more profitable freight. Concerns have been raised about possible widespread rail service failures this fall much like we saw in 2013-14. Rail intermodal, a natural alternative to trucking, is seeing strong increases in traffic.
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