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This Week in Logistics News (January 22 – 27)

Logistics Viewpoints

The retailer has partnered with the Bengaluru-based cargo airline Quikjet to launch its maiden air freight service in the country, which it said will enable the firm to speed up its delivery. India is the third market where Amazon has launched its freight service. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper is also home to a leading cancer center (MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper), the only Level II pediatric trauma center in the Delaware Valley (Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper), three urgent care centers, and more than 100 outpatient offices from Southeastern Pennsylvania to the Jersey Shore.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. FedEx Corporation FedEx , previously known as Federal Express, is an American multinational freight company founded in 1971 as a system for urgent deliveries. Kuehne + Nagel Inc. Jacobs in 2011.

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Freight Volume Rebounds to Pre-Pandemic Levels

Zipline Logistics

As we move into the back half of May, the freight market is starting to show signs of an expedited rebound. . Th ese conditions have caused a more favorable freight environment. That is e specially the case for outbound freight in southern states and California where produce season is in full swing. . Logistics? ? .

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LTL Trucking Carrier Yellow Formally Files for Bankruptcy

Supply Chain Matters

Bankruptcy Court in Delaware late Sunday. trucking companies since 2019 when LTL carrier New England Motor Freight liquidated. As noted in our last update, leading up to this formal action, many shippers and brokers had already routed freight shipments among other existing LTL carriers.

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Claire’s Becomes Latest Retailer to Go Bankrupt

BlueYonder

To date, the company estimates that it has pierced over 100,000,000 ears worldwide,” Claire’s Chief Financial Officer Scott Huckins said in court papers as part of the Delaware Chapter 11 filing. Their initial robotic colleague drew a three-dimensional digital map of the place as it tugged freight around.

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Lessons Learned from 2021 Peak Season for 2022 Planning

Intelligent Audit

Dr. Sheng Lu, a professor at the University of Delaware, told The Wall Street Journal that he estimates that retailers will see average delays of one to two months on shipments this spring. Whereas John Idol, CEO of Michael Kors parent Capri Holdings Ltd., said disruptions would continue for at least the next six months.