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This Week in Logistics News (September 16 – 22)

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David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, wasn’t buying it. Cargo volumes at the Port of Los Angeles rose 3 percent year-over-year to 828,016 TEUs in August, marking the first increase in 13 months, port officials said. There is no such thing as a carbon-neutral product,” he says. It’s kind of silly.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 22 – 28)

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Earlier this week, Amazon and Hawaiian Airlines announced that the retail giant will use Hawaiian Airlines to fly its first Airbus freighters on primary cargo routes and to Hawaii beginning in the second half of 2023. Amazon’s European operations have been at the forefront of the company’s sustainable transportation push.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

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Cargo begins clogging Port of Los Angeles amid railroad worker shortage. FedEx has agreed to buy an ownership stake in the logistics technology vendor Berkshire Grey as part of a multi-year deal to stock its fulfillment centers with the tech firm’s robotic order fulfillment systems. FedEx agrees to buy 10% stake in Berkshire Grey.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 10 – 16)

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by which a commodity is produced and distributed: the companies, materials, and systems involved in manufacturing and delivering goods). The Matternet M2 has become the first non-military unmanned aircraft system (UAS/drone) to earn its FAA type certificate. Last year’s cutoff was set at December 9.

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Doing Business in the United States

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The last two states added were Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. The climate is mostly temperate, but Alaska is arctic, Florida and Hawaii are tropical, and the Great Plains are mostly arid or semi-arid. The country has a large fiber-optic system and domestic satellites carry much of the telephones traffic. Manufacturing in the U.S.