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This Week in Logistics News (May 14 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

But I just read an article about another labor shortage Walmart is facing: store managers. Autonomous cargo ship completes 500-mile voyage. The Suzaka, a 750 gross-ton vessel, was powered by Orca AI, whose software helped the ship avoid hundreds of collisions autonomously. Wingcopter to deploy 12,000 drones across Africa.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager. Mexico shipping, which is particularly timely as more companies locate manufacturing and distribution operations in Mexico and the need for capacity and reliable cross-border shipping services accelerates. Mexico trade.

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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

According to an article published in FreightWaves , “ Tender volumes are racing to the upside and are tracking positive year-over-year in May, albeit off of a depressed 2019 comparison. Shipping in or out of Alabama should be?back When shipping to or from California, check to ensure that facilities are online and operational.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 14-18, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Moving on to 3PL news, FedEx was indicted by the Justice Department for shipping packages from illegal online pharmacies despite being warned from U.S. Kansas has allocated some of its gas-tax revenue to pay for Medicaid and schools. drug enforcement officials. We’re all starting to sound like a broken record here.

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Investing in regional supply chains

Resilinc

In a June 2021 Harvard Business Review article and in this blog , Resilinc CEO Bindiya Vakil and her co-authors Tom Linton and Dale Rogers argued that more robust and sophisticated Pan-American supply networks are critical destinations on the roadmap to drive greater resilience, sustainability and agility in U.S. supply chains. now depends.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

This article briefly overviews some newer features of both state-run and private health organisations’ supply chains, with the emphasis on hospital supply, in an age where limitless funds are definitely no longer a feature. The distribution centre/s becomes the central point at which all inbound supplier shipments arrive.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

This trio of supply chain experts began advocating earlier this year for public and private investment in what they call the Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem year (see their June guest article in Harvard Business Review). Proximity = lower costs and lower carbon.