Freight Waves

JULY 10, 2025

The event, a premier gathering for freight and logistics leaders, promises to equip attendees with forward-looking strategies amid ongoing U.S.-China China trade war, where CBB’s early warnings on export slowdowns helped firms diversify sourcing or adjust logistics plans. China trade dynamics and supply chain volatilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2024

The neighboring port in Norfolk Virginia and other east coast ports like New York City can absorb the additional traffic without many complications or delays, but this incident provides an opportunity to discuss the importance of supply chain resilience.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2019

Swipe, click, this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Google Spinoff’s Drone Delivery Business First to Get FAA Approval (Bloomberg) Amazon to invest $800 million to make one-day free shipping the standard for Prime members (WSJ – sub. Honestly, this depressed the heck out of me. The First Drone Airline.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Labor and management work out deal at Port of LA/Long Beach ( Logistics Management ). Transplace delivered more than 50 customer solutions in 2012 using the CombineNet sourcing technology, in industries including consumer goods, chemicals, manufacturing, and retail. Robinson, Con-way, and Transplace are Logistics Viewpoints sponsors).

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Moving on to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week… Mercedes-Benz and Matternet unveil vans that launch delivery drones (TechCrunch). Alphabet Drones to Deliver Burritos as Part of Test at Virginia Tech (WSJ – sub. I’m rooting for love. Oracle Buys LogFire. Over 8,700 active WMS users.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

This was a busy week for supply chain and logistics news, so let’s go straight to it. Kintetsu to Buy Neptune’s APL Logistics for $1.2 Derailed CSX train in West Virginia hauled newer-model tank cars ( Reuters ). XPO Logistics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Results. Menlo Logistics Unveils Innovation Speaks.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Walmart previously scaled back its drone deliveries in 2024, when it ended the service in Utah, Arizona and Florida, in favor of focusing on remaining operations in Dallas-Fort Worth, Arkansas and Virginia. A year later, the retailer added drone deliveries to its app for DFW customers.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 13, 2013

UPS Freight is based in Richmond, Virginia. The latest addition to this portfolio includes LTL and truckload freight services, which complements UPS’s global capabilities to provide customers a single source for multiple modes of transportation. The post LTL Carrier Profile: UPS Freight appeared first on The Logistics of Logistics.

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Freight Plus

AUGUST 7, 2020

Bernardes is a professor and coordinator of the Global Supply Chain Management program at West Virginia University. Traditionally, supply chains have been conceived and managed as a discrete sequence of activities, from design, plan, and source to make, deliver, and return. After that he launched his career in academia.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 24, 2025

According to reporting from Bloomberg citing internal employee sources ( Paid subscription ), these mandates are being communicated in one-on-one meetings or town hall meetings. Corporate level workers were told to relocate to certain facilities in specific cities and offices such as Arlington Virginia , Seattle Washington or Washington DC.

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Kanban Logistics

MARCH 31, 2021

Kanban Logistics has recently added 8 trailers to its fleet, bringing its total number of trailers to 25. While Kanban’s primary service is warehousing and distribution, this trailer acquisition demonstrates the growth of the company’s logistics transportation services in Eastern North Carolina.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

When I was a small child growing up in the mountains of West Virginia in the United States, on snowy days, my family would gather around the kitchen table and play board games. The value network of suppliers and logistics providers is largely managed by spreadsheets and email with no system of record for interactions.

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Freight Plus

AUGUST 7, 2020

Bernardes is a professor and coordinator of the Global Supply Chain Management program at West Virginia University. Traditionally, supply chains have been conceived and managed as a discrete sequence of activities, from design, plan, and source to make, deliver, and return. After that he launched his career in academia.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Many sources are warning that Florence will be the most intense storm to strike the region in at least 25 years, since Hurricane Hugo, which was a Category 4 and sustained winds of 140 mph. Over 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate in the Carolinas and Virginia. Get support from the logistics community. click to zoom].

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

East ( Northern Virginia ), U.S. The statement that AWS Supply Chain will have the ability to leverage over 30 years of Amazon ’s logistics knowledge can provide either an attraction or a threat to prospective platform customers. Application availability is indicated as available in preview in the U.S. Announcement Significance.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2020

Refrigerated transportation is particularly at a premium and can be difficult to secure if not working with a logistics provider with an expansive network. If you ship in or out of Connecticut, don’t expect produce to affect your logistics operation much. You may need to pay more to attract capacity. Heaviest Peak: September.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Many sources are warning that Florence will be the most intense storm to strike the region in at least 25 years, since Hurricane Hugo, which was a Category 4 and sustained winds of 140 mph. Over 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate in the Carolinas and Virginia. Get support from the logistics community. click to zoom].

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2023

On May 4, we featured for readers the industry breaking news that Flexport will acquire the logistics the logistics fulfillment operations of online retail platform provider Shopify. The firm is headquartered in Portland, Oregon , with offices in Ashburn, Virginia , Rochester, New York and Barcelona, Spain. based Livent Corp.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 21, 2020

Even when other costs such as coordination, transport, and logistics are taken into account, it still makes sense for many companies to outsource to China as onshore overall production costs would be much higher, a study of Australian manufacturing firms concludes. Access to China’s Mass Consumer Market. Government policy.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When they track carbon emissions for each shipment, they can make better decisions on carriers and the best ways to optimize the logistics network to reduce emissions. Note that these numbers include more than shipping and logistics; it encompasses the entire transportation sector. and the top of Virginia.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The two new prototypes are both based on the Hummingbird, which Wing says can carry about 2 pounds and has made hundreds of thousands of deliveries in Dallas suburbs, Virginia, Australia, and Finland. The post This Week in Logistics News (July 16 – 22) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 19, 2021

RoadOne IntermodaLogistics, a single source intermodal, distribution and logistics services company, announced the acquisition of DDI Transportation, a 38-year-old drayage and trucking business, based in Ashland, Virginia.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

He has lost approximately $182 billion since November 2021, as estimated by Forbes, although other sources suggest that it could actually be closer to $200 billion. And now on to this week’s logistics news. The post This Week in Logistics News (January 7 – 13) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 9, 2025

Melanie Patterson, founder of Integrity Global Logistics, helped lead the most recent Masterclass on government contracting—breaking down pricing models and showing small carriers how to build capability statements that win. Source, USASpending.gov. The government buys everything—and they’re required to buy from small businesses first.

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Freight Waves

JULY 7, 2025

How does manly soap go from source to sold? We’ll learn about the logistics of delivering bathtubs in West Virginia and examine Trump’s tariff trade deal delay. Squatch and ShipMonk to learn how they’re cleaning up in the soap business. We’ll find out from Dr. Squatch’s Andrew Sutton and Jason Welsh and ShipMonk’s Kevin Sides.

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GTG Technology Group

MARCH 29, 2017

Studies from the Center for Truck and Bus Safety of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute showed that ELD drivers had 11.7% Sources: [link] [link]. Studies show companies with monitoring systems see less downtime and greater utilization by 15% and 13% , respectively. Lowered accident rates. fewer total crashed and 5.1% link] [link].

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

At the original Thanksgiving feast, the pickings were much slimmer and all ingredients were sourced locally. 1] She note there are only two known historical sources describing the three-day long feast shared by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag natives at Plymouth Colony in 1621. Most of those turkeys are raised in 14 states.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news: Amazon launches same-day delivery from brick-and-mortar retail brands. FedEx has agreed to buy an ownership stake in the logistics technology vendor Berkshire Grey as part of a multi-year deal to stock its fulfillment centers with the tech firm’s robotic order fulfillment systems.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 27, 2015

Based in Virginia, AMT was founded in 1902 and specializes in providing targeted business assistance, extensive global support, and business intelligence systems and analysis to its members and industry as a whole. Sources: The Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT) [link]. a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wenzel Group of Germany.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2024

The Port of Baltimore itself reportedly generates in excess of $3 billion to the local economy including port and other logistics, warehousing and transportation workers. East Coast ports including the Ports of New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Virginia.

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Material Handling & Logistics

MARCH 7, 2018

Li & Fung, which sources clothes and toys for retailers, counts Walmart and Macy’s Inc. We’re really concerned about what this would do for the prices that American customers pay every day,” said Hun Quach, vice president for international trade at the Retail Industry Leaders Association in Arlington, Virginia.

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