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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Wendy’s is testing drone delivery in the Christiansburg, Virginia, market in partnership with DoorDash and Wing. 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. later this year. That’s all for this week.

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The Race for Last Mile Drones

Logistics Viewpoints

The company has developed a fleet of last mile drones for small package delivery in the US, Australia, and Finland. The two new prototypes are both based on the Hummingbird, which Wing says can carry about 2 pounds and has made hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Dallas suburbs, Virginia, Australia, and Finland.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Hummingbird has made hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Dallas suburbs, Virginia, Australia and Finland. The new drone prototypes use many of the same components, such as motors and guidance systems, and follow similar designs.

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Can Australian Manufacturing be Brought Back Home from China?

Logistics Bureau

Inevitably ‘Made in Australia’ goods will cost more—sometimes even double or triple the price tag of a ‘Made in China’ equivalent. When China went into lockdown early in 2020, the dependency on outsourced production cost Australia dearly, with supply chains hit by significant disruption. The main effect of this offshore flight?

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Sustainable Frozen Ecommerce Fulfillment with Cathy Hayward-Hughes and Mike Bradburn

The Logistics of Logistics

What began with one client in a small warehouse operation in Ferndale, Washington, quickly expanded to 38 customers in five states with warehouses in Washington, Nebraska, Reno, and Virginia, and Tennessee. Crystal Creek Logistics has fulfillment centers in Washington, Nebraska, Nevada, Virginia, and Tennessee.

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Quantum Computing Remains Tantalizingly Out of Reach

Enterra Insights

Australia’s Daily Excelsior reports, “In a major breakthrough in quantum computing, a team of Australian scientists has built a super-fast version of the central building block of a quantum computer, which has the potential to solve complex problems at a 200 times faster rate. ”[8]. nanoseconds. Footnotes. [1]

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How Undersea Cables will Shape Communication

Elementum

Amazon Web Services has purchased Hawaiki Submarine Cable to speed performance up to 30 Terabytes, and reduce latency of communication between Australia, New Zealand, and the US. Companies are betting on cables. The cable is expected to go live in June 2018. The $300M “FASTER” project, forecast to be operational mid-2016, is a Google venture.