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This Week in Logistics News (December 31 – January 6)

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DoorDash can now return your packages for you. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos boldly declared nine years ago that in just a few years, last mile drones would be delivering packages across the country to customer’s front doors. Or, you can type “package” into your search bar. And with that, let’s get to the news.

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Where Have The Drivers Gone?

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Not only does this exacerbate the shortage as there are fewer drivers hauling larger amounts of freight, but it also leads to massive supply chain issues like product shortages, extended delivery delays, and (ultimately) higher prices. Those "things" need to be transported via truck, yet the industry lacks the capacity to do so.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 28 – June 3)

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A strong uptake in collaborative robot usage within the medical, education, logistics, and catering fields will likely drive that market to grow to three times its 2021 size by 2026. The Memorial Day weekend typically sees an uptick in cargo theft, with an average from 2017 to 2021 of 29 events per year over the holiday weekend.

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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% But some Class 1 railroads, CSX in particular, are cutting back on intermodal service to favor more profitable freight. Parcel delivery volumes jumped 7% to $99 billion in 2017.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18 – 24)

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The retailer plans to have at least 15 of the facilities, dubbed sortation centers, by the end of January 2026. She said up to 40 percent of packages that go through sortation centers and get delivered by Shipt arrive to customers’ doors next day — and Target aims to get that number higher. There is no set date for rollout.