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Fred Smith, FedEx founder and parcel industry pioneer, dies at 80

Freight Waves

billion enterprise with the largest air cargo fleet in the world. In 1977, FedEx purchased seven Boeing 727 aircraft, each with a cargo capacity of 40,000 pounds – almost seven times that of the Dassault Falcon. In 1989, FedEx purchased cargo airline Flying Tigers. FedEx has grown into an $87.7

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New National Motor Freight Traffic Association Cargo Theft Framework Released

Supply Chain Digest

See More Bad News on US Cargo Theft.) Click here to send us your comments In response, the National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) has just released a framework it says can help shippers, carriers and brokers fight back against the growing and increasingly sophisticated threat of digitally enabled cargo theft.

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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

Supply Chain Digest

Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. Srihari Senior Consultant, Infosys Posted on: May, 22 2016 Great article.

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Maritime CO2 Emissions are Rising Sharply, and Cannot All be Blamed on Diversions Around South Africa

Supply Chain Digest

There is one easy answer: a large number of cargo ships continues to avoid sailing in the Red Sea in and out of the Suez Canal, to avoid attacks from so-called Houthi rebels in South Yemen. Srihari Senior Consultant, Infosys Posted on: May, 22 2016 Great article. That is what is happening right now,” Mortimer says. What is going on?

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Regional Air Cargo Start Up TuffAir Sues Amazon over Alleged Trade Secret Theft

Supply Chain Digest

After securing access to TuffAir’s materials, Amazon abruptly ceased communications, only to unveil a remarkably similar regional air cargo model within months, based on the same technical, operational and strategic elements TuffAir had disclosed,” the company alleged in its legal filing. No comment as yet on the suit from Amazon.

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Home Delivery Robots: Last Mile Gamechangers

Logistics Viewpoints

In this situation, an autonomous vehicle brings a package to a customer’s house, whereupon the customer enters a code and retrieves the package from a cargo hold. Starship Technologies was launched in 2014 by Skype co-founders Ahit Heinla and Janus Friis. As a result, autonomous vehicles have also been tested for home delivery.

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Introducing the Freightos Marketplace

Freightos

By 2014, it reached $77 trillion dollars. Booking a flight has been electronic for 50 years, but the cargo on airplanes, trucks, and ships is still booked manually. The Freightos Marketplace launched in closed beta in January 2016. Introducing the Freightos Marketplace. In 1900, gross world production was $175 billion dollars.