Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
UPS is seeking alternative strategies for its truck brokerage business, which has seen sales plummet amid a freight recession marked by declining rates and over capacity. More than $728 million is on the way to communities around the nation to bolster intermodal freight infrastructure. And now on to this week’s logistics news.
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 12, 2024
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. Wing already handles drone deliveries at Walmart Supercenters in Frisco, Texas, and the Dallas area. went out of business in 2023.
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ToolsGroup
AUGUST 1, 2022
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Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 1, 2022
US port backups are extending into freight rail supply chains. Retail’s inventory glut means big business for liquidators. The backups stretch to major freight hubs including the key transit point at Chicago, freight executives say, where containers have been piling up at rail yards. a unit of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 10, 2022
Add in soaring air freight costs, and the fruit will not only be hard to find, but incredibly expensive. Target expects squeezed profits from aggressive plan to get rid of unwanted inventory. Waymo is integrating Uber Freight, the ride-hail company’s truck brokerage, into the technology that powers its autonomous big rigs.
Logistics Viewpoints
DECEMBER 9, 2022
This is leading to an inventory pile-up of processors and memory chips used in PCs. Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories. The companies building their inventories are looking to ensure they have items on hand at the right moment. Walgreens takes its delivery service round the clock. The largest U.S.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 26, 2023
Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. Inventories at U.S. Target has been testing high-capacity van routes at Dallas and Minneapolis sortation centers. And now on to this week’s logistics news.
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