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Amazon News Cycle Accelerates With a Purpose

Supply Chain Matters

Following an acknowledgement by CEO Andy Jassy that the retail platform provider may have overexpanded capacity needs related to supporting online commerce logistics and customer fulfilment needs and restoring operational profitability levels, a series of swift realignment actions are now underway. That includes a recently announced $3.9

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This Week in Logistics News (January 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The three largest US all-cargo airlines are opposing a request by Saudi Arabian Airlines for permission to operate cargo flights from Liege, Belgium, to New York and Chicago because the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia doesn’t grant similar flexibility to US carriers to fly there from third countries.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

state of New York. And now on to this week’s logistics news. The February reading in the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index was -0.26, reaching negative territory for the first time since August 2019. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Oregon also are moving to decarbonize drayage.

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Warehousing, the Rise of IT, Automation, and Now… Robotics

Logistics Bureau

Transport optimisation considerations dictate that warehousing is used at the end-point of a transport system to amass enough products for a full load for the subsequent transport system. Logistics services provider TNT runs a large distribution hub in Belgium.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

You learn something new every day. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Container dwell fee paused at Port of New York and New Jersey. Amazon is acquiring Cloostermans, a company out of Belgium that is a specialist in mechatronics. Railroad strike averted. Amazon is buying Cloostermans.