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New Shipping Operations Ideas Bring Fresh Air to Stale Strategies

Intelligent Audit

Facing Low Package Volumes, UPS Introduces Logistics-as-a-Service Offering. As package volumes continue to fall, UPS CEO Carol Tomé hopes UPS can find increased revenue in partnership with larger corporations, such as Amazon. Air Cargo Capabilities. Maersk Invests in U.S. to far-distant Asian trade hubs.

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Logistics Technology and Startup Roundup: Q1 2016

Freightos

Maersk experimented with using a drone to deliver goods to a container ship in Denmark , in an effort to save costs on barge deliveries. A British aviation service company ordered 12 Lockheed-Martin blimps , each capable of carrying 47,000 pounds (20% of a 747’s cargo capacity). The blimps could be ideal for remote deliveries.