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This Week in Logistics News (September 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

The offering was unveiled this week at Amazon Accelerate, a conference that drew about 2,000 online merchants to Seattle. Merchants can use the service, called Multi-Channel Distribution, to send inventory to warehouses run by other logistics providers, other online marketplaces and even to physical stores to be put on shelves.

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Reports of Convoy Winding Down Digital Freight Business

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights a breaking news development related to Seattle based trucking based Cloud platform provider Convoy. Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and other industry specific media are reporting that Seattle based digital freight start-up services provider Convoy is preparing for a possible sale or other action.

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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] The study also found that clearing security accounted for 12% of total delivery time, while riding the freight elevator and looking for tenants’ locations accounted for 61% of overall time.”

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Agriculture in the City

Enterra Insights

Plenty itself had planned to open a farm near Seattle by this point, but decided to focus on building its tech platform.” In fact, Robbin Laird believes vertical, urban agriculture could become a national security issue.[8] ” Concluding thoughts.

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2021 Supply Chain Challenges: The Top 5 Lessons Learned + Tips from 11 Industry Experts

ToolsGroup

Lesson #2: Finding solutions in warehouses and distribution centers. “We And having multiple smaller warehouses in strategic locations can enable you to do this – especially in the beverage industry. Because of the timing, even outsourced warehousing providers are slim on space. .” – Alex Phelan, CEO, Merchadise.

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Seeing Supply Chain Visibility through Different Lenses

Bristlecone

Ensuring my order would be included in the earliest shipment that the distributor was planning to make from Seattle to the Oakland warehouse. based freight forwarder, who moved goods like tiles, he emphasized how important it is for his business to be able to predict delivery of goods from the port to the factory warehouse.

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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

Speed – Think five days from a factory in China to a warehouse in the United States. Security surcharges. A relative newcomer, founded in 1979 in Seattle, Washington, this US forwarder had $2.51 As a matter of fact, the largest cargo airplane , the Anatov 225 – can hold an entire train. Why Ship Cargo by Air?