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This Week in Logistics News (August 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

The Alphabet-owned drone firm says the two offerings will cover a combined 60,000 homes in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. ABB has opened a new facility in Alpharetta, Georgia, to serve as the company’s dedicated center for robotic automation in the logistics and packaging industries.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 30 – May 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS plans to implement its smart package initiative at 100 facilities in 2022, which will involve using RFID tags on packages to speed up throughput. The initiative will eliminate 20 million manual scans daily for UPS employees loading its package cars. Empty shipping containers stack up at US port depots.

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Supply Chain Market Report – July 2022

Elementum

They forecast that this will cover 4 million US households and enable 1 million packages to be delivered. Earlier this year, Walgreens Boots Alliance expanded their drone delivery pilot from Christiansburg, Virginia to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, reaching 100,000 customers.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 6-10, 2017)

Talking Logistics

FedEx Package Pickup and Drop-Off Now Available at More Than 7,500 Walgreens Locations In All 50 States. Elemica Delivers Predictive Visibility to Global Industrial Supply Chains. CLX Logistics Renews Partnership with BluJay Solutions. E2open Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Zyme.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

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. By the end of the decade, the company’s goal is to deliver 500 million packages a year by drone in cities, Amazon Prime Air vice president David Carbon told reporters.

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Load Volume and Rates Move in Opposite Directions

DAT Solutions

Along with our standalone freight rates tool DAT RateView, all DAT load board packages include broker spot market rates on the lanes you're searching. Rates trended up in Houston, a major flatbed market, as well as secondary markets including Las Vegas, NV; Fort Worth, TX; Cleveland, OH; and Tampa, FL. FREIGHT RATES.

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How Natural Gas and Plastics Impact the Truckload Spot Market

DAT Solutions

Hopper cars will carry the plastics to packaging facilities in the Dallas / Fort Worth area. Still, the resulting finished goods consisting of films, pellets, and resins do move by truck. Many of the new petrochemical operations will take place along the Gulf Coast.

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