Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 20, 2022
Autonomous cargo ship completes 500-mile voyage. In our last piece of autonomous vehicle news, the “world’s first” autonomous commercial cargo ship has successfully completed a near-500-mile voyage in the congested waters of Tokyo Bay, traveling without human intervention for 99 percent of the trip.
Talking Logistics
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Google Express, the tech company’s fast delivery service, expands in Kansas City (Kansas City Star). The fallout from Hanjin’s bankruptcy continues, with $14 billion of cargo still stranded at sea. Cargo owners such as consumer products maker Dorel Industries Inc and the U.S. project44 Raises $10.5M
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Elementum
MAY 13, 2015
The route is part of the the Kansas City Southern (KCS) network and is one of a few new options carriers like Maersk (the company Walmart contracts) have started to provide as an alternative to the West Coast port congestion. Mexico’s $5 Billion Port Facelift. freight imports anytime soon. West Coast ports to Mexican ports by 2016.
Logistics Viewpoints
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Operations there have been stymied by several government-mandated lockdowns during a COVID resurgence in the spring. Panasonic plans to resolve the bottleneck in early 2024 when it starts producing the advanced cells at the $4 billion battery factory it’s building in Kansas.
Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 21, 2023
Nestle has partnerships with ADM and Ardent Mills, the two primary wheat flour suppliers for DiGiorno products, to support wheat farms in Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota and Indiana. The federal government has signaled that it wants to end the stand-off and is examining its options. It is unclear though, how the situation will evolve.
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