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This Week in Logistics News (January 6 – 12)

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Wing and Zipline are drone delivery providers and will allow Walmart to cover 75 percent of the Dallas-Fort Worth population as stores in 30 towns and municipalities will now offer drone delivery service. Amazon shipped last-minute Christmas gifts faster in 2023 than in 2022, according to data from analyst firm Momentum Commerce.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 5 – 11)

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According to the company, its annual revenue jumped 27 percent, reaching $55.3 XPO Logistics to spin off freight brokerage. CEVA Logistics using self-driving trucks to move freight. Online grocery shopping has been surging since the Covid pandemic first hit, and companies have been looking for ways to maximize their business.

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Supply Chain Market Report – July 2022

Elementum

The economy is careening toward Stagflation While countries all over the world responded to the pandemic in March 2020, companies quickly began to see the cost to produce goods go up. As companies began raising prices to cope with increased costs, consumers started seeing the impact on their own pocketbooks. Meta froze hiring.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 4 – 10)

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Add in soaring air freight costs, and the fruit will not only be hard to find, but incredibly expensive. Trucking, warehousing, and parcel-delivery companies added a combined 32,900 jobs last month, according to seasonally adjusted preliminary employment figures the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, down from 44,700 jobs added in April.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

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At the beginning of the year, the global chip shortage had become so dire that large industrial companies were taking scarce chips out of washing machines to plug them into industrial modules. The restaurant features what the company calls an Order Ahead Lane, which serves mobile-order customers their food through a conveyor system.

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Which States are Making the Grade in Logistics?

Material Handling & Logistics

Illinois is the only state that has all seven Class I freight railroads. It is the 3rd largest in total freight railroads. With three maritime ports that together rank 7th in waterborne shipping, Indiana provides the only statewide port system with direct waterway access to two U.S. The state received an A. Media Type.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 14 – 20)

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China port congestion worsens as ships divert away from Ningbo. As I wrote about last week, Amazon’s drone delivery dream may be in jeopardy, as the company has shuttered part of its operations in the UK. per-piece fee added on to all shipments delivered by the company’s Ground Economy service.