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Amazon’s Freight (Train) Is Coming

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Editor’s Note: This article is from Steve Bettwy , Vice President – Quality and Business Continuity, Operational Excellence, and Continuous Improvement at Direct Supply. Let’s say it will take $10B to build the technology and infrastructure to ship 6 billion packages per year. That’s not a terribly long putt.

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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. Ford has run multiple pilots to gage customer perception and acceptance of autonomous vehicles as a delivery mechanism. Seven Home Delivery Robots to Know.

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Amazon orders 20,000 Mercedes-Benz vans

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Related Articles. That could reduce Amazon’s reliance on other delivery companies such as UPS and FedEx or the U.S. . Sprinter vans will be used by the growing fleet of contractors making final-mile package deliveries. Chaos is good for third-party logistics providers.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 4-8, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Many times during those long training rides, which I have done mostly by myself, I thought about giving up or taking a shortcut back home. Well, it took me just over 7 hours last year in Death Valley ! LL4T1DCure Team Jersey 2017. Since January, I have cycled over 1,500 miles in preparation for this ride.

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The Ultimate List of Top Logistics Startups – Blog

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And it’s about to get hit by a freight train of innovation. Enough to go through every single article published in the top tech blogs – Techcrunch, Verge, Mashable and Recode – since 2007 to count how often articles about logistics startups, freight or cargo were published. Package Delivery.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 25-29, 2018)

Talking Logistics

I’ve started to ramp up my training for our Logistics Leaders for Type 1 Diabetes Cure team ride in support of JDRF, which will be in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 3, 2018. Startups to Deliver Packages for Amazon. What do you do when demand for package delivery outstrips capacity? Risky Business?

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Top 25 Supply Chains of 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

One of the most popular articles we’ve ever done is our look at analyst group Gartner’s annual ranking of the Top 25 Supply Chains. Our look at the Top 25 (plus 4) Supply Chains of 2018 examines how the best companies in the world excel at managing their global supply chains.