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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. In my own defense, things kind of took off after 2014. I will soon be publishing the 2021 base-year study with a five-year forecast through 2026. Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4 billion in 2019.

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Where Have The Drivers Gone?

AFFLINK

Flash forward just a few years to 2014 and that number had skyrocketed to 38,000. Those "things" need to be transported via truck, yet the industry lacks the capacity to do so. In fact, according to the American Trucking Association , it's something that the industry has struggled with periodically over the last 15 years.

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

We saw that starting to turn around in 2016 and continued to accelerate into 2017," he notes. trillion in 2017, up 6.2% Parcel delivery volumes jumped 7% to $99 billion in 2017. If things don't change, and we continue up this progression, by 2026, we will be at 170,000 drivers short. Postal Service, UPS and FedEx.

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Truck Driver Shortage: Getting Better, Worse, or No Problem at All?

Talking Logistics

This past October, the American Trucking Associations warned that the trucking industry could be short 50,000 drivers by the end of 2017. In the report, ATA projects the shortage to reach 50,000 by the end of 2017 and if current trends hold the shortage could grow to more than 174,000 by 2026.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

It is forecasted that by 2026, demand will mainly be linked to the rise in clean energy technology, in particular for neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets –– critical components for electric and hybrid vehicles as well as wind turbines. Ali, 2014) making it difficult for monitors to distinguish the impact of a REE from the rest of the ore.