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U.S. West Coast Dockworkers Enacting Multi-Day Job Actions

Supply Chain Matters

But shipping industry sources now indicate that negotiations deteriorated last week over the scope of expected dockworker wage increases. Bloomberg reported similar disruptions observed in ports in Tacoma and Seattle. Dockworkers, truckers, rail and warehouse workers in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Gulf or U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 2-6, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Amazon patents show flying warehouses that send delivery drones to your door (TechCrunch). Amazon’s robot army grows by 50 percent (The Seattle Times). Amazon is secretly building an ‘Uber for trucking’ app, setting its sights on a massive $800 billion market (Business Insider). million in cash.