2020 Seattle Shipping Transportation 
Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 9, 2021
The kick-off to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan is just two weeks away, after being postponed last summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Container shipping prices skyrocket. Roughly the size of a small cooler, Amazon Scout vehicles can transport small packages along sidewalks at walking pace.
GlobalTranz
JANUARY 26, 2017
By some accounts, overall spending on connected logistics solutions globally exceeded $7 billion, and more than $13 billion will be pumped into this supply chain powerhouse by 2020, explains Andrew Meola of Business Insider. Ultimately, eCommerce best practices , such as striving for two-day shipping, are no longer relevant.
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Logistics Bureau
APRIL 2, 2020
The huge build-up of containers at China’s docks has created a major ocean freight imbalance, with a shortage of cargo in US and European ports and a shortfall in boxes needed by Western exporters to ship products to other parts of the world. Some ports are quarantining arriving ships for 14 days.
MIT Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 24, 2020
Warehousing response to online growth Consulting firm Deloitte forecasts that e-commerce sales will grow by 25% to 35%, year-over-year, during the 2020–2021 holiday season, generating $182 billion to $196 billion in sales. Similarly, shoe retailer DSW started shipping orders out of its closed shoe stores. “We
Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 28, 2022
UPS earnings rise as higher prices offset shipping slowdown. Amazon will rent the planes from Seattle-based lessor Altavair, which is sending the used passenger aircraft to Airbus’ maintenance and overhaul partner to be remodeled for carrying cargo containers. billion, as revenue per piece shipped rose 8.6%, offsetting a 2.1%
Supply Chain Game Changer
JANUARY 19, 2021
I joined FLEXE early in 2020, and am excited about the challenges ahead. Why can’t we ship orders the day they arrive? I spent 2020 asking, “Why?” Applying what I learned at ModusLink in design for distribution helped us reduce carbon footprint and saved over $1M a year in packaging reduction alone. Why do we do it that way?
GlobalTranz
JULY 21, 2015
an hour in July, 2016, followed by annual increases through 2020 until the minimum wage hits $15 an hour. Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland and Chicago have already moved to raise their wages and there are proposals for minimum wage increases across the country including in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Kansas City, MO. .
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