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Overcoming The Current Supply Chain Labor Shortage

ShipLilly

Logistics offers employment for those workers that have been displaced in other industries. May 2020 showed that the logistics industry was also facing significant pressure and that people were going to be laid off in the short run. For example, Amazon announced that it was hiring up to 175,000 new workers during March.

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China’s e-commerce soft spot: Logistics

The Logistics Academy

Thanks to China’s e-commerce boom, the country’s package-delivery business has been growing at 30 percent a year. On the most recent Single’s Day—an online buying fest that takes place every November 11—consumers ordered 680 million packages, across all Chinese websites, that needed delivery. Source: Mckinsey.

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3PL Basics: The 11 Transportation Services with Jeremy Thone

The Logistics of Logistics

3PL Basics: The 11 Transportation Services with Jeremy Thone. Joe Lynch and Jeremy Thone discuss the 3PL basics: the 11 transportation services provided by 3rd party logistics providers. Jeremy Thone is the Marketing Director at 3PL Systems, which is a transportation management system software company based in Signal Hill, California.

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What You Need to Know About the State of eCommerce Logistics

GlobalTranz

Consumers are expressing an unprecedented amount of power through eCommerce, and in fact, eCommerce logistics is growing increasingly reliant on small parcel and package delivery options daily. Today, eCommerce is the primary driver of small package logistics. More importantly, small packages make up $82.2

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Should You Use Google Maps for Trucks?

WorkWave

Driving a truck isn’t the same as driving a regular delivery vehicle. Routing is vital for transporting goods long distances. Bad route planning means delayed deliveries, higher maintenance fees, and even the difference between success and failure. Special Delivery Formats. Time To Read: 6 minutes. Higher Productivity.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 26-30, 2017)

Talking Logistics

According to Reuters : Package delivery company FedEx Corp said on Wednesday operations in its TNT Express unit were disrupted after its information systems were hit by a virus attack. Moller-Maersk two days ago, showing the scale of the damage a computer virus can unleash on the technology dependent and inter-connected industry.

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Flight club

Automotive Logistics

In the nearer term, PwC estimates that more than 76,000 drones will to take to the skies in the UK over the next 12 years, with as many as 11,000 deployed in the transport and logistics sector. PwC suggests that the growing adoption of drone technology across the transport and logistics sector could drive a GDP boost of £1.2