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

Talking Logistics

Amazon’s robot army grows by 50 percent (The Seattle Times). and South America, collects, cleanses and commercializes logistics trade data from over 50 nations across 5 continents, including key markets in North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the European Union. million in cash.

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

Supply Chain Matters

Bloomberg reported similar disruptions observed in ports in Tacoma and Seattle. That should have been a good contingency plan albeit the new consequences of severe drought occurring in South America which has impacted the water levels of the Panama Canal resulting in increasingly slower transit times. Gulf or U.S.