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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

Roughly the size of a small cooler, Amazon Scout vehicles can transport small packages along sidewalks at walking pace. Amazon said the development center in Helsinki will work alongside Amazon staff at the Amazon Scout R&D lab in Seattle, as well as teams in Tubingen, Germany, and Cambridge. Rob Spilman Jr.,

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech July 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Laura Kelly jointly announced yesterday that the state of Kansas will be a new location for a proposed US-based lithium-ion battery manufacturing facility, pending approval by Panasonic Holdings Corporation Board of Directors. Other battery manufacturers that have elected to invest in U.S. location.

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Webinar Q&A: Answers to 8 Common Freight Market Questions

CH Robinson Transportfolio

These topics are highly relevant to a wide range of shippers across North America and may help you make smarter, more informed supply chain decisions. The impact of the semiconductor shortage varies by truck manufacturer. You can learn more about this topic on Land Line and Transport Topics. Accordingly, C.H.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Content Summary: Personal Mover Transports Employees around BMW Plant. To eliminate some of this traveling BMW’s R&D group developed a Personal Mover solution—a one-person means of transport for covering short distances within an operating site. Content Summary: Trucks Platoon Across North Carolina Turnpike.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon will rent the planes from Seattle-based lessor Altavair, which is sending the used passenger aircraft to Airbus’ maintenance and overhaul partner to be remodeled for carrying cargo containers. Amazon’s European operations have been at the forefront of the company’s sustainable transportation push. over the next seven years.

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How Did Truckers Find Loads 40 Years Ago?

DAT Solutions

He liquidated the business in 1991, and in 1997 he and two other partners started another trucking company, Hiawatha Transport, which they later sold. Rather than retire, in 2010 Schultz accepted a job in the transportation division of Ashley Furniture, the world's largest furniture maker, based in Arcadia, Minnesota.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by supply chain disruptions around the world has sparked a resurgence of companies bringing sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States or closer to U.S. These factors have encouraged manufacturers to move closer to the source of consumption — the U.S. trade with Asia.