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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. DHL Group does not operate ships but it uses them to transport containers. went out of business in 2023.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

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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 company is testing a small-format restaurant in Fort Worth, TX, where the centerpiece is a conveyor system that delivers food to a mobile-order lane. The largest U.S.

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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. 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.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 7-11, 2018)

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Freight Operators Dismiss Threat of Digital Startups (WSJ – sub. Kuebix Surpasses 10,000 Companies Using Its Transportation Management System (TMS). to further explore concepts and technologies related to urban air mobility (UAM) to ensure a safe and efficient system for future air transportation in populated areas.”

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

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MercuryGate Launches Global, Omni-modal Freight Procurement Solution. Marten Transport Ltd. Shippers are under enormous pressure to cut transportation costs and seem not to be satisfied with the massive fuel surcharge reductions racked up over the past year and a half.”. Analysts at Stifel Inc. Hub Group Inc.,

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This Week in Logistics News (June 12 – 18)

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Additionally, Starbucks has removed oat milk and beverages made with oat milk from its mobile app until the inventory can be replenished. Over the last few months, it has also bought merchandise on the spot market and flown in power tools, faucets, electrical components, fasteners and other smaller, higher value items by air freight.