Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 10, 2022
The company has developed a fleet of last mile drones for small package delivery in the US, Australia, and Finland. Recently, Wing has developed a fleet of new drone prototypes designed to more efficiently deliver packages ranging from small pill bottles to items weighing as much as 7 pounds.
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 20, 2022
In this situation, an autonomous vehicle brings a package to a customer’s house, whereupon the customer enters a code and retrieves the package from a cargo hold. To date, the San Francisco-based company has done more than 3 million autonomous deliveries around the world.
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Talking Logistics
JUNE 19, 2015
to drop off packages en route to other destinations, according to people familiar with the matter. As envisioned, Amazon would enlist brick-and-mortar retailers in urban areas to store the packages, likely renting space from them or paying a per-package fee, the people said. The crowdsource delivery model is not new.
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 14, 2023
“Around 0600 Pacific Time Tuesday morning, multiple Waymo vehicles in San Francisco encountered very dense fog and determined they should pull over temporarily,” a company spokesperson said. In a blog post, Yum noted it is transitioning away from plastics and developing new packaging solutions as part of that policy.
Talking Logistics
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
Package-Delivery Drones Likely Years Away From Federal Approval (WSJ – sub. Moving from trucking to ocean transportation, San Francisco startup Flexport Inc. UPS And CyPhy Works Test Drone For Urgent Commercial Delivery. Flexport Raises $65 Million in Venture Capital to Expand Operations (Transport Topics).
Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 19, 2021
Washington farm exports crimped by cargo-container shortage. A coalition of countries is pitching a plan to the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) to require global shipping companies to raise funds for an effort to deploy widescale fleets of zero-carbon emission cargo ships within a decade.
Logistics Viewpoints
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
The company has spent nearly a decade pursuing founder Jeff Bezos’ vision of autonomous drones that can deliver a package weighing less than 5 pounds as little as 30 minutes after a customer places an order. billion in chemicals cargo a week. Boston, and Chicago. That’s all for this week.
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