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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

Three former SpaceX engineers have founded Parallel Systems , a firm specializing in autonomous battery-powered electric rail vehicles for shipping and freight. The ongoing freight backups at maritime ports is disrupting global supply chains. Well, the avian flu looks like it is back.

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Minnesota turkeys are stuffing outbound trucks

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The Land of a Thousand Lakes is also the number-one state for turkey production, by a wide margin. So it's no big surprise that the Minneapolis market area was also the land of a thousand loads (per day) in the first half of November, as fresh turkeys got stuffed into temp-controlled trailers during the run-up to Thanksgiving.