The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

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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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

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.”.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

Unilever owns tea plantations in Africa and is using blockchain to improve sustainability and combat counterfeiting. Among the objectives of these projects, is to enable fast responses on the rare occasions that quality issues arise in consumer-packaged-goods, requiring batches to be identified quickly and quarantined.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

For grocers, the picker may choose either voice activation or browser-based devices to pick products for packaging on carts and for those carts to be marshaled into staging areas before being loaded for home delivery, “click-and-collect” store areas, or for “drive-through” models as used in mainland Europe. . NAFTA trade reached $96.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

While it was a bit tough to jump right back into the swing of work, I saw an interesting article about workplace conditions when I got back. The portion of the index tracking ground parcel rates per package in Q1 was 29.5 percent above its January 2018 baseline, up from 25.2 percent for Q4.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Delivery drones article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Simon Pleass at 2flow.ie. Recent years have seen a flourishing interest in the use of drone technology to deliver packages. Environmental Benefits The average truck delivery of a package creates about 1kg of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Techgistics

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Put less focus on pizza deliveries and more focus on life-saving applications and the public's perception can be swayed, which will help pave the way to acceptance for drone package deliveries at scale. Zipline and Matternet are two drone startups working on urgent and life-saving shipments.

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