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This Week in Logistics News (June 5 – 11)

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US Air Force wants a commercial Rocket Cargo Vanguard to fly stuff anywhere on Earth. MIT spin-off ISEE brings autonomous trucks to shipping yards. If the project, called Rocket Cargo, goes as planned, it would take advantage of this fast-growing market. MIT spin-off ISEE has identified the shipping yard as one of those areas.

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Doing Business in the United States

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The last two states added were Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. For comparison, this makes the country about half the size of Russia or South America, and more than twice the size of the European Union. The climate is mostly temperate, but Alaska is arctic, Florida and Hawaii are tropical, and the Great Plains are mostly arid or semi-arid.