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Innovation in the Supply Chain’s Last Mile

Enterra Insights

Real estate journalist Will Parker ( @_willparker_ ) reports, “The last mile in the e-commerce delivery process looks like a windfall for real-estate owners. To address this challenge, Switzerland is developing an autonomous underground cargo system. ” SupplyChainBrain, 6 July 2022. [6]

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Innovation in the Supply Chain’s Last Mile

Enterra Insights

Real estate journalist Will Parker ( @_willparker_ ) reports, “The last mile in the e-commerce delivery process looks like a windfall for real-estate owners. To address this challenge, Switzerland is developing an autonomous underground cargo system. ” SupplyChainBrain, 6 July 2022. [6]

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The State of the Trucking Market in 2021

GlobalTranz

High freight volumes across all industries in the trucking market are expected to continue into 2022.? Port backlogs, cargo limitations on container ships, and a lack of available equipment and port facility staffing.? Limited available real estate has further led to challenges as construction came to a halt in the past year.?

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New Year, New Horizons: Transportation Industry Gets Ready to Take On 2023

Intelligent Audit

As the transportation industry waves goodbye (and good riddance) to 2022, innovative logistics professionals are already working hard to make 2023 a banner year for the global transportation industry. As ocean rates continue to plummet, shippers are increasingly diverting freight from air cargo lines to more affordable ocean transportation.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

So, what does the 2022 Thanksgiving holiday look like? billion in chemicals cargo a week. In one measure of the trend, the industrial real estate firm Tishman Speyer this week launched a joint venture with Mitsui Fudosan America (MFA), the U.S. arm of the $65 billion Japanese real estate firm Mitsui Fudosan Co.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 30 – October 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

That’s a sharp reversal from 2021 and the first half of 2022, when UPS and FedEx – awash with volume from the early pandemic’s online shopping surge – rebuffed discount requests and cherry-picked the most profitable customers. said Wednesday it has begun offering a service to handle returns. or UPS Inc.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

The chip shortage has been one of the hottest topics in 2022. Real-estate services firm CBRE Group Inc. and BNSF Railway have issued more embargoes—restrictions placed on the amount of cargo that can be transported—than in previous years. I read an article earlier this week that broke it down pretty succinctly.