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This Week in Logistics News (April 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

The figure includes Panasonic’s purchase of the remaining 80 percent of shares in Blue Yonder for $5.6 This acquisition builds on the Panasonic/Blue Yonder strategic relationship, established in January 2019 with a partnership, followed by the creation of a joint venture company in Japan in November 2019.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

The kick-off to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan is just two weeks away, after being postponed last summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, a resurgent coronavirus forced Japan to declare a state of emergency in the capital that will run throughout the event.

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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

Freightos

Across twenty additional countries, Amazon’s other centers are predominantly focused on fulfillment and delivery stations while some countries, like Italy, the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Singapore, and Japan also have Prime delivery facilities. About half of these jobs are in the US, and half of them based out of their Seattle headquarters.

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In Logistics, the Last Few Feet are as Important as the Last Mile

Enterra Insights

For congested metropolitan areas such as Seattle, the focus is actually on the ‘final 50 feet’ of those shipments.”[3] Petersen ( @IMSResultsCount ), CEO of Integrated Marketing Solutions, explains, “Working customers are not home when most deliveries occur. ”[2].

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What is cross-border eCommerce – Understanding the benefits and challenges!

Vinculum

Since 1994, Bezos founded Amazon in Seattle, Washington, USA, companies like PayPal, Alibaba, Taobao, Facebook along with the launching of Google AdWords and Facebook Ads paved the path at each pivotal points of this transformation. Cross border purchases have been growing in France as well in a very fast pace.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

The company was started in 1907 as a small messenger service in Seattle with $100 in borrowed capital. In the latter half of the 20 th century, it transformed into a Swiss holding company with interests in sea freight, air freight, contract logistics and overland businesses, with a focus on IT-based logistics solutions. Jacobs in 2011.