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This Week in Logistics News (March 13 – 19)

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Washington farm exports crimped by cargo-container shortage. A coalition of countries is pitching a plan to the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization (IMO) to require global shipping companies to raise funds for an effort to deploy widescale fleets of zero-carbon emission cargo ships within a decade.

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This Week in Logistics New (May 6 – 12)

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Labor unions are celebrating a bill signed into law in Washington state that offers new protections to warehouse workers, pushing back against fulfillment productivity quotas in the very state where retail giant Amazon first set the standard for lightning-fast delivery windows.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

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Cargo ships lost 661 containers at sea in 2022, down from the 15-year average of 1,566 lost per year, according to the latest figures from the World Shipping Council (WSC). They include Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state.

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Home Delivery Robots: Last Mile Gamechangers

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In this situation, an autonomous vehicle brings a package to a customer’s house, whereupon the customer enters a code and retrieves the package from a cargo hold. Amazon Scout has already performed well in its tests in California and Washington. As a result, autonomous vehicles have also been tested for home delivery.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

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In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long The bridge is part of the heavily traveled Interstate 695 linking Baltimore to Washington, D.C. mile-long span. An estimated 11.5

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This Week in Logistics News (April 23 – 29)

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The BrightDrop Zevo 600, formerly known as the BrightDrop EV600, completed the nearly 260-mile trip from New York City to Washington, DC. The BrightDrop Zevo 600 has a payload of up to an estimated 2,200 pounds and over 600 cubic feet of cargo area.

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The Air Freight Market with Eric Kulisch

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Eric is the Air Cargo Editor at FreightWaves, the leading FreightIntel provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. Eric Kulisch is the Supply Chain and Air Cargo Editor at FreightWaves. Russia sanctions cut both ways for air cargo. About Eric Kulisch.