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This Week in Logistics News (August 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Alphabet-owned drone firm says the two offerings will cover a combined 60,000 homes in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Founded in 2014, Magazino employs around 130 people. The first location is 8555 Preston Road in Frisco, Texas, a suburb Wing has served since 2021. Cellcom, Fiege Logistik, and Körber.

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Why is a Data Center Like a Supply Chain?

Elementum

Facebook announced today that it is moving forward with building a fifth data center , with plans to build in Fort Worth, Texas. In 2014, there were an estimated 3 million in the United States alone. They don’t seem too similar, but data centers could benefit from supply chain management. But that’s just one example.

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Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller

The Logistics of Logistics

They founded Access America, and it grew to about $600 million in revenue in 2014. FreightWaves started in Fort Worth, Texas, but we moved here. Robinson decided to build a brokerage business inside a brick business owned by the father of his frat brother. It merged with Coyote, and Coyote was acquired by UPS.

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REPOST: Why Chattanooga is the Silicon Valley of Trucking with Craig Fuller

The Logistics of Logistics

They founded Access America, and it grew to about $600 million in revenue in 2014. FreightWaves started in Fort Worth, Texas, but we moved here. Robinson decided to build a brokerage business inside a brick business owned by the father of his frat brother. It merged with Coyote, and Coyote was acquired by UPS.

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Which States are Making the Grade in Logistics?

Material Handling & Logistics

The state also is home to the Fort Worth Alliance Airport, which is a public-use airport located 14 miles north of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Content Summary: From 2010-2014, the state and its local counterparts invested more than $132 million in the state's railroad infrastructure. DataTable subpages.

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Driving domestic production of critical materials and rare earth elements

Resilinc

Molycorp went bankrupt in 2014, selling its assets to a Chinese owned firm. MP is investing refining capacity at its California mine and a Fort Worth, TX, facility that will supply “U.S. The firm has been revived again as MP Materials.

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Warehouses are the next HOT investment triggered by the digital transformation of the supply chain

NC State SCRC

Those being purchased by BREIT are in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Chicago, central Pennsylvania, Atlanta and south and central Florida, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. So what is the takeaway from this news?