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Will Trucking Challenges Transform JITS in North America?

QAD

Cost savings in warehousing and floor space along with associated reduction in personnel required. Decline in recruits : While the trucking industry estimates a shortage of roughly 50,000 drivers today, this number is expected to balloon to close to a million by the year 2025. Trucking Challenges in North America.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Locus Origin AMRs will be fully deployed in multiple of DHL Supply Chain’s 1,500 warehouses and distribution centers by the end of the year, according to a press release. The logistics provider has already deployed 3,000 AMRs globally with over 2,000 in North America.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

As early as 2025, at least 50 percent of new Porsches sold will include an electric drive. After being limited to only offering takeout and delivery for months under some of the strictest lockdown rules in North America, food product shortages are just the latest headache for small business owners to contend with.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

The executive director of the Port of Los Angeles thinks a tentative agreement between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) on a new labor contract is imminent. “I Rainfall was less than 50 percent of normal from February to April near the canal and the lakes that feed it.

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Chinese Lockdowns and the Future of Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

… Beijing’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid has idled factories and warehouses, slowed truck deliveries and worsened container logjams. In some key trading routes, such as Asia–Europe and Asia–North America, the rate spikes are even higher and the delays more frequent.”[4]. Hospitals from the U.S. ”[4].

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 1.8 - 1.11

Freight Plus

150 high-tech logistics hubs coming to China by 2025. China’s National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Transport have released plans to build 30 logistics hubs by 2020 and 150 by 2025. The locations aim to use automated ports, autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, and smart warehouses. While this is a 22.9%

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How Retailers in the US Can Step Up Their Delivery Game

Locus

This number is said to increase to almost 285 million in 2025. Delayed deliveries due to manual warehouse operations: Benjamin Franklin was right when he said that time is money. Warehouse operations such as manual sorting of packages can be extremely strenuous and lead to delayed deliveries. percent in North America in 2022.