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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 Retail groups this week are applauding a U.S. The Arkansas Department of Transportation expects 1.5 mile-long span.

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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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Every year, the National Retail Federation conducts a survey on St. Amazon Air’s network is starting to look more like the hub-centric models of air cargo giants FedEx and UPS. Grocery retailers that have piloted or are piloting the packaging, they said, include Hy-Vee, Meijer, and Festival Foods. Happy St Patrick’s Day!

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This Week in Logistics News (October 2 – 8)

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In late-August, Walmart launched a new business to connect local retailers with consumers. The business is a delivery service called GoLocal , which carries goods from other local retailers to consumers. The two retailers announced the partnership Wednesday but declined to share terms of the deal or the length of the contract.

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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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This Week in Logistics News (May 15 – 21)

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Port of Oakland sets all-time cargo record. As a result, more retailers are looking to take delivery matters into their own hands. The service has made package deliveries in the Bentonville and Rogers areas near Walmart’s Arkansas headquarters. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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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.