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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long The Arkansas Department of Transportation expects 1.5 mile-long span. The collapse sent vehicles and people plunging into the water.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 25-29, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program (New York Times) Transplace Invests in New Operations Center in Northwest Arkansas Black & Decker Fined $1.8M Volkswagen will use the suite of AWS IoT services […] to detect, collect, organize, and run sophisticated analytics on data from the plant floor. For Power Tools Sold In Iran.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

These technologies also contribute to a rise in big data and analytics in the logistics field. Alex Bekker is the Head of Data Analytics Department at ScienceSoft. Big data analytics is promising too: it enables predictive maintenance for better fleet management. Three of the biggest are IoT, AI and data analytics.