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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon plans to build delivery robot tech in Finland. Amazon has announced that it plans to develop new technology for its autonomous delivery vehicles in Helsinki, Finland. Roughly the size of a small cooler, Amazon Scout vehicles can transport small packages along sidewalks at walking pace. Descartes acquires GreenMile.

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Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide

Logistics Viewpoints

A couple of KNAPP’s prominent, publicly-stated projects include Walmart’s recently opened next-generation fulfillment center in Joliet, IL and Zalando’s recently commissioned 140,000 m2 distribution center. Bastian has rapidly grown to become a leading AutoStore distribution and implementation partner.

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The New Significance of a Logistics Strategy: Role, Success factors, and Integration

Logistics Viewpoints

What should the distribution network look like, which activities should be combined and what does the service level look like? The same applies to integrating brick and mortar retail with the online store as well as to distribution and fulfilment centres. Seamless integration promotes fast and flexible growth.

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Tesla Hikes Wages for Nevada Gigafactory Workers

Supply Chain Matters

The Swedish Transport Workers Union in turn, whose workers unload Tesla vehicles among four separate ports, threatened to blockade the vehicles from entering that country. Reportedly, labor unions within Denmark , Norway and Finland , along with Sweden , have rallied around IF Metall labor union. That may have substance from a U.S.

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ABB’s Daniel Helmig: “We are moving to virtual centres of expertise”

Supply Chain Movement

Daniel Helmig, head of ABB’s Supply Chain management, is currently busy implementing supply chain transformation throughout the company’s 450 plants and many project sites as the company consolidates back end processes and establishes ten global transportation management centres. “It I’ll be fully committed to this for the next two years.”.

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3 Uses of IoT Tech Spurring Sustainability in Supply Chains

GlobalTranz

The transportation of goods is one of the greatest contributors to worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, the use of remote-piloted drones may allow for more direct, manufacturer-to-consumer deliveries, eliminating the need to shuffle product around multiple times to various warehouses and distribution centers.

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Freeports: The 2022 Guide

Unleashed

Goods in a free zone can be assembled, broken up, distributed, manufactured, processed, stored, sold, sorted or repacked – and then sent to another free zone or exported. Each of these freeports is an important logistical, transportation, and trade area offering a competitive advantage to businesses that operate within them.