Talking Logistics

JULY 29, 2016

Seattle startup Flexe pulls in $14 million from investors (The Seattle Times). Booking a flight has been electronic for 50 years, but the cargo on airplanes, trucks, and ships is still booked manually. Whether it’s in trucking or freight forwarding, technology-led startups are looking to change the status quo in transportation.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 31, 2017

You just might see what one startup thinks could be the future of international cargo transport. So why not send all those boxes and packages on an un-piloted, amphibious Boeing 777-sized drone that can fly point to point and eventually drop off as much as 200,000 pounds of cargo at a seaside port?

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BlueYonder

MARCH 31, 2017

You just might see what one startup thinks could be the future of international cargo transport. So why not send all those boxes and packages on an un-piloted, amphibious Boeing 777-sized drone that can fly point to point and eventually drop off as much as 200,000 pounds of cargo at a seaside port?

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 25, 2024

Including ninety-six Fortune 100 companies such as Intel and Citi, as well as organizations like Johns Hopkins University, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and the United Service Organizations, and U.S. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets on Air Cargo Next.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They also have faced tense geopolitical environments, unreliable and expensive ­global shipping services and supply chain delays exacerbated by port congestion and even inland transportation issues. These factors have encouraged manufacturers to move closer to the source of consumption — the U.S. shift to electric heavy-duty vehicles.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 19, 2020

Almost 75 percent of US companies are experiencing capacity shortfalls in their supply chains, due to Coronavirus-linked transport disruptions , a new study has shown. European electronic component distributor TTI says it is using air cargo companies UPS, FedEx, and DHL to mitigate the impact of holdups in China. The Food Industry.

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The Network Effect

AUGUST 5, 2016

Amazon unveiled its first branded cargo plane today, and will showcase its fleet of 20 branded 767-300 planes in Seattle WA on Friday. The post Amazon One: Amazon Takes to the Air appeared first on The Network Effect.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 26, 2017

However, their use felt some restraint, and most companies used them to track large-scale shipments, such as cargo containers, reports Claire Swedbery of the RFID Journal. Now, consumers can return products to Amazon stores, and recently, Amazon launched a no-employee grocery store, Amazon Go , in Seattle.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2024

The international inbound transportation service is only available to Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) sellers that source or manufacture goods in China, and all cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports. Cargo imported into the U.S. are then directly transported to a Walmart fulfillment center.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The trucks transport products to proximate areas, where lighter, more nimble vehicles such as cargo bikes complete the final deliveries. A Seattle startup, FLEXE, has gone a step further by creating what amounts to the Airbnb of warehousing.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

Amazon currently lists about 17,700 full-time vacancies on its website, about 920 in the logistics and transportation sector. About half of these jobs are in the US, and half of them based out of their Seattle headquarters. In other words, about 5% of Amazon jobs are in logistics.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

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: Autonomous Boats Could Ferry Cargo in Busy Cities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

The collapse of a section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will cause “major disruption” in the region just as the summer travel season begins, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. The agreement paused dockworker job actions potentially through the end of this week.

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Techgistics

JUNE 4, 2017

Amazon Fresh A grocery delivery service that started in Seattle in 2007 and now operates in 16 cities. They would use little fuel, and they would bypass the inefficient road transport and decaying infrastructure entirely. Fresh is not just about making money in the razor-thin margin grocery business.

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 29, 2013

Photo: Port of Seattle by Don Wilson. He said that if one of their West Coast terminals was closed due to a disruption, the enterprise’s ships would sail to another proprietary terminal in order to keep the cargo handling revenues internal to the company. Going public. The move towards public terminals is making ports more resilient.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

The company was started in 1907 as a small messenger service in Seattle with $100 in borrowed capital. It started in 1969 as DHL Air Cargo, and by the late 1970s, the company had expanded its operations and offered services throughout the world. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7 Revenue: €17 billion/ $19.42

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 21, 2023

While still in the early stages of development, the emerging technology will instantly transport an item once it is picked at a warehouse or store to your living room. The Seattle-based giant emitted 71.27 The Seattle-based giant emitted 71.27 And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 21, 2016

They serve regional markets and are unlikely to receive large volumes of cargo headed to the battleground region. Oakland and the Seattle-Tacoma ports on the West Coast. Seattle-Tacoma is generally the best complex to serve the Pacific Northwest, playing a unique role in providing access to the upper Midwest via rail.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 27, 2015

They serve regional markets and are unlikely to receive large volumes of cargo headed to the battleground region. Oakland and the Seattle-Tacoma ports on the West Coast. Seattle-Tacoma is generally the best complex to serve the Pacific Northwest, playing a unique role in providing access to the upper Midwest via rail.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2023

The most significant news in global transportation and logistics circles late last week and this week are U.S. Reportedly, one terminal at the Port of Los Angeles cancelled cargo movement operations on Monday of this week while two terminals at the Post of Long Beach closed. Further, as we indicated in a prior commentary, the U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

The huge build-up of containers at China’s docks has created a major ocean freight imbalance, with a shortage of cargo in US and European ports and a shortfall in boxes needed by Western exporters to ship products to other parts of the world. Measuring the Imbalances*. In the United States, the Pandemic has yet to Peak. Ocean Freight.

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ShipBob

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When it comes to the long-distance transfer of goods, you probably want the best of both worlds: economical rail transport and flexible over-the-road trucking. Interested to know more about this form of long-haul transportation ? Transloading is process of moving goods between different modes of transportation.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2024

Multi-Industry Implications Averted As noted in our and various other business media reporting, The multi-industry implications of this transportation disruption to North America transport needs were significant, especially if the rail stoppage extended to multiple days. Regarding a potential risk of solidarity by U.S.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 26, 2022

A freight bill includes a lot of information that requires the shipper to decide how transportation should be handled. Remember, zone-skipping is a type of change in transportation where items can travel by ground and still arrive within an acceptable time of sending the same shipment by air. For example: Does delivery take too long?

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 11, 2016

FLEXE , Flexport and Convoy –three technology companies adding flexibility to the supply chain–,recently hosted the first Peak Logistics breakfast in Seattle, Washington. So today and yesterday, there was not enough capacity, cargo was rolled, prices spiked. So I wanted to tell you, why does your cargo get bumped.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2017

Amazon’s robot army grows by 50 percent (The Seattle Times). Yes, it takes a lot more than a mobile app to succeed in the transportation industry, but because of their resources and brand strength, you have to take Amazon and Uber seriously. Amazon patents show flying warehouses that send delivery drones to your door (TechCrunch).

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The service most frequently outsourced to a 3PL is transportation management (24%), followed by warehouse management (19%). Content Summary: DB Schenker USA has an integrated multi-modal transportation network, strategic warehousing and hub facilities, global supply chain information technology systems and visibility tools. Media Type.

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RFgen

MARCH 19, 2015

cargo has flowed through the country’s West Coast ports until recently. A recent Journal of Commerce survey found more than 65 percent of shippers surveyed said they planned to ship less cargo through U.S. Roughly half of all U.S. East Coast Ports Growing.

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RFgen

MARCH 19, 2015

cargo has flowed through the country’s West Coast ports until recently. A recent Journal of Commerce survey found more than 65 percent of shippers surveyed said they planned to ship less cargo through U.S. Roughly half of all U.S. East Coast Ports Growing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The 80-pound hexagon-shaped aircraft, about 5½ feet in diameter, is nimble enough to make deliveries in highly populated areas such as Boston, Atlanta and Seattle. freight railroads have reported strong profits in recent years, helped by higher prices and steady business in transporting everything from automobiles to fertilizer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 24, 2023

In a later phase, deliveries are targeted to expand to large, dense cities including Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Hoboken New jersey. In dense cities such as New York and Paris, Amazon is experimenting with cargo bikes and electric vehicles. Initially, the program will operate in 23 states and focus on rural areas.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 4, 2021

Calvert reports some cities, like New York, are trying to encourage the use of cargo bikes. New York is offering free parking for cargo bikes and Calvert notes that bike lanes can protect both cyclists and drivers. ” Big packages, however, are a problem for cargo bikes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 12, 2021

Amazon spends $131 million for stake of cargo airline ATSG. A bipartisan bill in Congress could boost the prospects for women’s careers in transportation , at a time when female airplane pilots, truck drivers, train conductors, and ship captains retain a slim minority of jobs in the sector. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Texas announced a renewed push for cargo-truck inspections last month as part of Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” plan to deter illegal border crossings and drug smuggling amid what he says is a lack of enforcement by the federal government. Daily market prices to move cargo from Asia to the U.S. Civil aviation authorities in the U.S.,

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 14, 2021

John Porcari, a former transport official in the Obama administration, was appointed to work with the ports to clear the bottlenecks. To get cargo off ships even when trucks and trains were not available, for example, Long Beach initially designated a 17-acre plot as a staging area for containers. Fallon/Bloomberg.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 15, 2018

Microsoft’s technology could potentially compete with Amazon’s highly-automated store concept which opened to the public in Seattle in January. From transportation delays to lax monitoring of cargo, theft, operator errors and outdated IT failures, many factors can jeopardize profits and increase cost pressure.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 15, 2018

Microsoft’s technology could potentially compete with Amazon’s highly-automated store concept which opened to the public in Seattle in January. From transportation delays to lax monitoring of cargo, theft, operator errors and outdated IT failures, many factors can jeopardize profits and increase cost pressure.

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