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This Week in Logistics News (July 25-29, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Seattle startup Flexe pulls in $14 million from investors (The Seattle Times). In other technology news, Freightos announced “the launch of the world’s first online marketplace for international freight, providing instant comparison, booking, and management of freight services from multiple logistics providers.” Annual Imports.

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Amazon’s Decision to Up Holiday Season Worker Needs- The Why

Supply Chain Matters

As a means of comparison, the National Retail Federation reported in January that last year’s retail sales during the November to December holiday period grew 5.3 Last week, a published report from the Seattle Times was headlined: Amazon going big to fill the delivery void left by Shopify’s retreat. percent to $963.3

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Agriculture in the City

Enterra Insights

” By comparison, Ewing-Chow reports a Seedo system retails for around $2,400. Plenty itself had planned to open a farm near Seattle by this point, but decided to focus on building its tech platform.” Each container — the kind commonly seen on trains, trucks or ships — costs $85,000, not including shipping.

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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

Freightos

By comparison, that’s almost as large as the15th largest US passenger fleet. About half of these jobs are in the US, and half of them based out of their Seattle headquarters. Amazon Air (once called Prime Air) boasts a fleet of 32 Boeing 767-300s, on track to grow to a sizeable 40 aircraft fleet. Team Analysis.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

By comparison, the vacancy rate at the end of 2013 was more than 9 percent. Oakland’s container port lost 32 percent of imports year over year , and Seattle and Tacoma’s import volume also declined more than 10 percent last year.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

By comparison, the vacancy rate at the end of 2013 was more than 9 percent. Oakland’s container port lost 32 percent of imports year over year , and Seattle and Tacoma’s import volume also declined more than 10 percent last year.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Super Bowl of Manufacturing: Wash. vs. Mass.

GlobalTranz

Super Bowl XLIX takes place Sunday between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, but you probably knew that already. The teams’ states make for interesting comparisons off the field. Last year’s blowout victory for the Seahawks over the Denver Broncos was the biggest television event to ever air in the U.S.