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This Week in Logistics News (September 9 – 15)

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Breakfast sausage, hot dogs and frozen chicken breasts from Tyson Foods are beginning to move autonomously on Gatik AI trucks in Northwest Arkansas. mile route from a small warehouse to a Walmart retail store in Bentonville, Arkansas. days for general cargo vessels. The three-year contract could expand nationwide.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 11 – 17)

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Amazon Air’s network is starting to look more like the hub-centric models of air cargo giants FedEx and UPS. Amazon has ramped up air cargo flights at its largest hubs while maintaining or shrinking flight activity elsewhere, according to an institute tracking the company’s air operations.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

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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)

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Inside Google’s Rebooted Robotics Program (New York Times) Transplace Invests in New Operations Center in Northwest Arkansas Black & Decker Fined $1.8M A New Market Seeks to Draw Freight Bets (WSJ – sub. For Power Tools Sold In Iran. Trucking Futures Trading: Are You Buying?

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Package Theft Season is Here

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A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article outlining how cargo theft is on the rise. In the United States alone, cargo theft is a $15 to $35 billion industry. While cargo theft as a whole has increased 57 percent year-over-year, strategic theft has increased 600 percent from November to March.

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The Top 5 Supply Chain Megatrends of 2024

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Hurricanes are another extreme weather event that can impact global supply chains, resulting in lost or delayed shipments, port disruptions, canceled cargo flights, and unbalanced supply and demand. we are seeing some states— including Wisconsin, Ohio, and Arkansas—propose rolling back child labor laws to deal with the labor shortage.

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24 supply chain experts & business leaders reveal the #1 challenge of supply chain management (and how to solve it)

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Sara White @SupplyPike Sara White is the Marketing Coordinator for SupplyPike , a supply chain software solutions startup in Fayetteville, Arkansas. This both reduces the risk of error and improves speed to create a smoother shipping process. She is in charge of providing content to their supplier wiki, help center, and blog.