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. The other significant trend this year has been the continued loss of jobs in the warehouse sector.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 6, 2022
Warehouse vacancy rates sink to 27-year low. In early April, employees at an Amazon warehouse on New York’s Staten Island made history by becoming the first Amazon warehouse to vote to join a union (JFK8 fulfillment center). Do other warehouses follow suit and join a union?’ Demand for piece-picking robots gains steam.
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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog
MAY 25, 2022
Kroger Restaurant Supply opened for business on April 5 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. And while the trend briefly reversed during the pandemic, as shown in 2020, the expectation is that food away from home will resume its share growth going forward. Source: Data from USDA Economic Research Service Food Expenditure Series.
Talking Logistics
DECEMBER 7, 2016
Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) Conference , April 30 – May 3, Fort Worth, TX. TIA 2017 Conference , April 5-8, Las Vegas, NV. NASSTRAC Annual Shippers Conference & Transportation Expo , April 9-12, Orlando, FL. 2017 Georgia Logistics Summit , May 16-17, Atlanta, GA.
DAT Solutions
SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
Transportation and logistics professionals are urged to contact the American Logistics Aid Network , if you can help provide trucks, trailers, or warehouse space. Some other flatbed lanes that have trended up: Pittsburgh to Grand Rapids averaged $3.07 Volumes have bounced back in Fort Worth , but the lane to Houston dropped to $2.27
NC State SCRC
JUNE 5, 2019
A recent article in Bloomberg suggests that warehouses are now becoming one of the hottest investments in the market, based on recent moves by the Blackstone Group LP, who are betting $18.7 Bloomberg, an investment manager is paying for 179 million square feet of urban logistics properties — the warehouses used by Amazon.com Inc.
Talking Logistics
MAY 11, 2018
At its research facility at the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport, NASA will use the data supplied by Uber to simulate a small passenger-carrying aircraft as it flies through DFW airspace during peak scheduled air traffic. Over time, self-tuning mechanisms adapt solution quality to adjust to changes and prevent disruptions.
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