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This Week in Logistics News (September 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon is acquiring Cloostermans, a company out of Belgium that is a specialist in mechatronics. The Matternet M2 has become the first non-military unmanned aircraft system (UAS/drone) to earn its FAA type certificate. US shippers using FedEx Corp.’s

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The Weight of Memory

Tailwind

It is shaped in that manner because engraved into its marble surface are ALL THE NAMES of the over 57,000 soldiers and military personnel who died in that war. In our industry, there are a significant number of people who have served in the military – many of whom served in the more recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Abraham Lincoln.

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