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Acing the drone obstacle course

World Food Programme Logistics

Photo: WFP/Elizabeth Millership In less than 30 minutes, the group has been briefed on safety, given an overview of the training, divided into four groups. They are now out of their chairs and onto the green, where they will spend 90% of the course time. Matthew Cua offers hands-on technical assistance.

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Amazon’s Freight (Train) Is Coming

GlobalTranz

Of course, along with that comes a lot of products that need delivering. Amazon announced that it shipped 5 billion items through Prime alone in 2017, and some analysts estimate it will ship over 4 billion packages in 2018. None of this is new news, of course. Amazon currently enjoys about 50% of all US e-commerce business.

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BIFA Warns of Looming Deadline on Customs Training Funding

Logistics Business Magazine

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is alerting its members to a looming deadline by which they can apply for funding from the Government’s £5 million grant scheme opened in December 2018, as part of an £8 million investment to support training and automation in the customs intermediaries sector.

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Online Learning is Growing Exponentially—And it’s Here to Stay

Logistics Bureau

Whereas online courses and programmes were previously managed as a separate entity, they are now an integral part of most academic systems. Big business from about 2011 onwards started realising the value of adding e-learning to staff training programmes. percent from 2018 to 2026. Article Summary.

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New Year’s Resolutions for 2018: What’s Your Personal Challenge?

Talking Logistics

Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions for 2018? I’ve visited every US state, run 365 miles, built an AI for my home, read 25 books, and learned Mandarin…My personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing [the problems that have plagued Facebook this past year].”.

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The LIW articles you should read – a 2018 retrospective

Logistics in War

As 2018 draws to a close, a year in which Logistics In War consolidated, it’s a good time to reflect on what were the most popular or relevant articles to the readers. In Hoping and planning for the best: understanding war without logistics I outlined three themes for Logistics In War in 2018. By David Beaumont.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 5-9, 2018)

Talking Logistics

They wanted to stop me because I and my teammate Ralph were off course. We turned our bikes around, coasted down the hill, and got back on course. I want to thank all of our team members once again for their time and commitment to train and fundraise over the past few months. We had missed a turn 3 miles back.