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New Year, New Horizons: Transportation Industry Gets Ready to Take On 2023

Intelligent Audit

As ocean rates continue to plummet, shippers are increasingly diverting freight from air cargo lines to more affordable ocean transportation. Walmart to Expand Drone Delivery in Arizona, Florida, Texas. Airfreight Demand Plummets as Shippers Flock to Ocean. 15 press release. Cloud-Based Business Intelligence and Analytics.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

The request seeks an engineering firm to design barge landings and access points where e-bikes and small delivery vehicles can transport cargo for the “last mile” of its journey. The bill has currently been assigned to the Arizona House Rules Committee and awaits a hearing.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 6-10, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Only yesterday I graduated from college, bought a bicycle and cycled cross country, then headed out to Arizona to begin life again. Only yesterday she was born, me heading out to bring her home from the hospital. It seems like only yesterday, not years, that I was a kid myself playing stickball and bathing in the johnny pump on President St.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Overcome supply chain challenges – and maximize margins in the face of inflation – with retail planning software and demand forecasting tools. Retailers like Amazon are chartering private cargo ships, making their own containers, and leasing planes to bypass supply chain disruptions like long wait times for dock space and workers.

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Autonomous Truck Trends for 2022 and Beyond: Can Autonomy Safely Address the Driver Shortage?

Logistics Viewpoints

Using proprietary software, a human queues up a truck to retrieve the specific trailer. This means moving the cargo twice as far and twice as fast. Currently, TuSimple is being tested across Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas; all states where snow and heavy fog – difficult edge cases – are less common.