Cargo Las Vegas Sourcing 
Freight Waves
JUNE 21, 2025
He was a mentor to many and a source of inspiration to all. billion enterprise with the largest air cargo fleet in the world. In one instance, after a crucial business loan was denied, he took the company’s last $5,000 to Las Vegas and won $27,000 gambling on blackjack to cover the company’s $24,000 fuel bill.
Supply Chain Digest
JUNE 25, 2025
Studying economics at Yale, Smith’s 1965 term paper pitched the idea of creating a logistics company that would carry only cargo, and do so for a package’s end-to-end journet, such that a package could be delivered almost anywhere in the US overnight. Click here to send us your comments The story is well known.
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Supply Chain Brain
AUGUST 6, 2025
The latest agreement and two others — with Las Vegas-based MP Materials Corp. and E-Vac Magnetics, a South Carolina-based unit of Germany’s Vacuumschmelze GmbH — will allow GM to get the majority of rare-earth magnets it sources directly from domestic suppliers, the Detroit carmaker said August 6.
Talking Logistics
DECEMBER 18, 2015
In this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon in talks to lease 20 jets to launch air-cargo business (The Seattle Times). Here are some details from the article: Leasing 20 jets would be a significant expansion of an Amazon trial operation out of Wilmington, Ohio, operated by ATSG on Amazon’s behalf, sources said.
Cathy Roberson
JANUARY 9, 2023
As such, the Reverse Logistics Association (RLA) will shine the light on six of these firms in RLA’s annual conference in Las Vegas, Feb 7-9 , in its inaugural Reverse Logistics Startup Pitch Contest. Join us in Vegas There’s still time to join us in Las Vegas for RLA’s annual conference.
Cathy Roberson
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
They’re a dual sourcer, and they have diverted some volume, and I suspect they’ll stay dual sourcing.” Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets on Air Cargo Next. Heading to Las Vegas next week? Of those, only one has diverted some volume.
The Network Effect
JANUARY 29, 2016
” More specifically, the Hyperloop is an open source transportation system, consisting of a closed tube loop that carries passengers or cargo in a capsule floating on a cushion of air at supersonic speeds. References and sources. Musk plans to build a test track in Texas. Wikipedia: The Hyperloop.
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