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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

But I just read an article about another labor shortage Walmart is facing: store managers. Autonomous cargo ship completes 500-mile voyage. Wingcopter to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa. During Suzaka’s 500-mile voyage, the autonomous cargo ship performed 107 collision avoidance maneuvers without the help of a human.

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High Seas Troubles Affect Global Supply Chains, Part Two: Climate Risks

Enterra Insights

In Part One of this article, I discussed emerging and ongoing security threats affecting maritime trade. In this concluding article, I want to discuss how climate change risks are adding to challenges faced by shipping firms and their clients. As a result, maritime shipping lies at the very heart of the global logistical system.

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Can B2B e-commerce solve supply chain issues?

Cathy Roberson

A Middle-East-based B2B online platform, Tradeling, launched last year with an initial investment from Dubai Airport Freezone Authority to help businesses across the Middle East and North Africa to procure goods from around the world. Available in Rwanda, it plans to expand across Africa and around the world.

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The Green Corridor: Cures from the Sky! Healthcare Distribution is Driving Itself Into a More Environmentally Friendly Direction

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As a result Zipline’s business and reach in Africa is expanding. While delivering medicines, food and spare parts, Skyports electric drones by design also eliminate all of the carbon emissions and much of the danger in ship to ship cargo transfers. We can hopefully expect more and more growth in this sector.

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The reality of green energy: “green metal” supply chains won’t be able to keep up

NC State SCRC

The Economist article provides some clues regarding the green metal supply chain and its capability to produce enough of the commodities required to power the electric conversion. There are other risks as well: logistics in these regions (especially Africa and Chile). But where are the deposits of these “green metals”?

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

Magazine article) as a goliath looking to take on the entrenched "David" shipping industry. Break-bulk loaded cargo was poorly secured required a Tetris-like approach to handle diverse sizes of packages. Small trucker, Malcom McLean, fumes at slow loading of cargo aboard ship – “There has to be a better way.”. Significance.

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2020 Trends in Freight Transportation, and the COVID-19 Impact

Logistics Bureau

When I first began planning this article, the most significant impacts of COVID-19 were primarily limited to Mainland China. Below are the statistics as provided by Seabury, and reported in a Flexport article in mid-April: Capacity from Europe to North America is down by 52%. Using passenger airliners to provide cargo-only services.

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