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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

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cargo imports in May could hit highest level since last October Transloading is heating up again Hundreds of cargo ships lost propulsion in U.S. Some of the robots zip around the hulking facility transporting pallets of merchandise fresh off delivery trucks. Another resembling a giant arm moves the pallets onto conveyor belts.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

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Department of Transportation, which has selected 37 projects to be given funds made available by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (BIL) Mega Program and the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program. The big three US airlines saw their cargo revenues decline last year as rates and volumes came under pressure.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

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In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long million vehicles cross the bridge annually, or about 30,000 per day, according to the Maryland Department of Transportation. mile-long span.

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Air Cargo Tech Is Falling Behind. It Doesn’t Have to.

Freightos

While the air passenger industry has a solid tech foundation, air cargo does not. And while that’s easy for me to say as a startup, it’s echoed by industry professionals as well: I think, in general, the air cargo industry is still pretty traditional and it’s not really embracing technology. DISCOVER AIR FREIGHT SOLUTIONS.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The focus of the transportation suites was on cost mitigation and price negotiation. More and more cargo shifted to ocean transport until the container imbalances resulted in issues with “rolling the freight” from ship to ship despite confirmed bookings. Watermelon Metrics Don’t Drive The Right Results.

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Amazon’s New Last Mile Program Will Improve Customer Service, But Higher Emissions Will Result

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million metric tons of the company’s CO2 emissions are attributed to fossil fuel emissions. But that 85% metric makes things sound better than they really are. In dense cities such as New York and Paris, Amazon is experimenting with cargo bikes and electric vehicles. According to Amazon’s 2021 Sustainability Report, 12.1

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Addressing Challenges in Global Logistics Operations with Technology

DELMIA Quintiq

In fact, the outperforming logistics vendors today (based on profitability and revenue growth metrics) are the ones that were extra cautious on capital expenditure in the years following the recession. Similar behavior was seen across road transport and air cargo.