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This Week in Logistics News (October 22 – 28)

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Amazon to double Europe EV fleet by 2025. UPS earnings rise as higher prices offset shipping slowdown. It expects to grow its fleet to more than 10,000 vans by 2025. s profit climbed in the third quarter despite a downtick in shipping volumes as higher prices buoyed the business. United Parcel Service Inc.’s

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This Week in Logistics News (January 22 – 27)

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Seventy-three percent of supply chain professionals expect the event, which also known as Chinese New Year, to further disrupt the shipping industry this year, as opposed to 66 percent who said the same thing in 2022. Regional shipping companies across the U.S. Speaking of EVs, the global auto industry has committed $1.2

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Creating a Green Marine Supply Chain

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Ships also account for around 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions [2] , contributing to the acceleration of climate change. Plus, extreme weather events and changing storm patterns challenge seafaring vessels. This in turn leads to melting ice caps, rising sea levels, and threatened biodiversity. from originally 3.5%

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This Week in Logistics News (June 11 – 17)

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One-quarter of consumers plan to give “gifts of experience” such as tickets to a concert or sporting event. US House passes ocean shipping bill to allay export backlogs. The company, in its quest to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025 has also been investing in electric vehicles as well as other alternative fuel sourced vehicles.

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7 Ways to Future Proof Your Supply Chain

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In his recent Supply Chain Digital Magazine article, Future-proof your supply chain to 2025 and beyond , Brent posits seven ways shippers can make decisions now to improve operational efficiency in the next couple of years. His recommendations to future proof the supply chain for 2025 and beyond focus on seven essential steps to take now.

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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

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I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. Transportation visibility is clearly not only for trucks.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15 – 21)

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Seven years ago, I wrote that Cyberdyne Systems’ Skynet division was working on teleportation capabilities that will eliminate the need to wait for products to ship entirely. Elon Musk has linked an update on that only at the delivery event, which means deliveries will likely be only for employees and Tesla insiders.