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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

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. Roughly the size of a small cooler, Amazon Scout vehicles can transport small packages along sidewalks at walking pace. FedEx now has a mission to be carbon-neutral by 2040.

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The Tremor Across China’s Online Retail Landscape

Supply Chain Matters

One of its most valuable platforms, electronics payment provider Ant Group , had its planned IPO halted in 2020 because of government restrictions. At the time of the announcement in April of this year, Alibaba had reportedly wiped out $600 billion of its former $800 billion valuation since October 2020.

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Boeing’s Newest Production and Quality Challenge

Supply Chain Matters

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to launch immediate investigations into the incident. The blown out aircraft door panel plug has subsequently been found in a residential backyard on the ground and is being taken to a facility for inspection. News of this incident prompted the U.S.

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Is The Creative Class Coming To A City Near You?

Supply Chain Insights

I made a list and wrote Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin. We believe that this redefines supply chains in the Race for Supply Chain 2020. Cities with creative knowledge workers will redefine transportation, commerce, and social systems. However, even with all this opportunity sometimes I’ve felt like I was trapped.

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Embracing the rules: Incoterms® 2020

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Incoterms® are used to allocate transport costs, show where risk passes from a seller to a buyer, as well as clearly define the responsibilities for export and customs clearance, not to mention identify who must purchase insurance if required (and at what level), from origin through destination. . No one in the U.S.

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Prediction- Added Labor Activism Among Industry Supply Chains

Supply Chain Matters

Within the aerospace and commercial aircraft industry, involuntary job losses among highly skilled workers that occurred in 2020 and 2021 are still being felt as the industry attempts to again ramp-up monthly production levels for commercial aircraft or address large scale aircraft engine premature component replacement needs.

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Omnichannel Logistics Solutions Takes the Supply Chain To The Next Level

GlobalTranz

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.