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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

These plants produce various food products, and these new projects’ technologies can be replicated across a wide range of food and beverage manufacturers. The drone delivery partnership with Wing was born out of DoorDash Labs, DoorDash’s robotics and automation arm, and builds on a similar pilot launched in Australia in 2022.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Freightos Baltic Index Global Container Freight Index shows the cost of shipping freight remains hugely elevated – more than double the price a year earlier. In fact, global freight rates have increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic. Even in Australia, consumer sentiment index decreased to 102.2,

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The Logistics Linchpin with Andrew Clark

Freight Plus

Andrew started in footwear manufacturing and fell in love with operations management. He then decided he wanted a career change and moved to pharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia. Following this, he ended up working for a business in Australia called Logistics Bureau. What surprised you in terms of logistics?

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The Logistics Linchpin with Andrew Clark

Freight Plus

Andrew started in footwear manufacturing and fell in love with operations management. He then decided he wanted a career change and moved to pharmaceutical manufacturing in Australia. Following this, he ended up working for a business in Australia called Logistics Bureau. What surprised you in terms of logistics?

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Why Large Companies Increasingly Opt for 4PL Services

Logistics Bureau

In its simplest form, fourth-party logistics is a model in which manufacturers hand over the entirety of the organisation and oversight of their supply chain to a 4PL provider. the digitisation of manufacturing. This outsourcing allows the company to focus on its core manufacturing business and higher-value projects.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Kuehne + Nagel Inc.

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One Man’s Trash: How Blockchain Can Target Food Waste to Help End World Hunger

Material Handling & Logistics

billion metric tons—gets lost or wasted. What’s more, net food losses in developed countries (222 million metric tons) equate to nearly all of the food produced in Sub-Saharan Africa yearly (223 million metric tons). From the wholesale manufacturers in Iowa to the farmers in Bangladesh, change is coming.