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Reports say Amazon has acquired a Boeing 767 aircraft

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This marks a shift from Amazon’s longstanding tradition of leasing aircraft from Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), to operate its air cargo network to serve United States-based customers, and Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, whom provides air cargo services to support Amazon’s package deliveries to its customers.

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UPS opens up new Atlanta-based ‘super hub’ operating facility

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Global transportation and logistics services provider UPS announced this week that it has officially opened up its second-largest United States-based, and fourth largest global network package operating facility. Operations for UPS, in a statement.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 23 – 29)

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The company did not cite specific pay rates, but those wages may be as high as they are because UPS in July dodged a strike by boosting pay, under the terms of a five-year Teamsters Union contract covering some 340,000 warehouse workers and package delivery truck drivers. California Gov.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 31 – January 6)

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The company announced last year that Amazon Prime customers in Lockeford, CA, will start receiving package deliveries by drone by the end of 2022. On December 22, the first deliveries from new sites in Texas and California were made, according to David Carbon, Vice President of Prime Air at Amazon. battery manufacturing.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

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How Walmart and Alphabet jumped ahead of Amazon in drone delivery. USPS slowing first-class package delivery to lower costs. Quanta Computer, which produces nearly three-quarters of Apple’s Macbooks globally, also shut down its operations, which could impact deliveries for the foreseeable future.

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Things you need to know about Asset Management

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It is broadly defined that it refers to maintain and monitors the asset value of entity and groups. Assets Management is a systematic process of maintaining, upgrading, operating and disposing of assets cost-effectively. Package delivery. Asset Management is important to reduce the total cost of operating assets.

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The Logistics News that Shaped 2018

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By Michael Levans, Group Editorial Director ·. Every year at this time, group news editor Jeff Berman combs through the mountain of news that were reported, written, posted by the Logistics Management editorial staff over the course of the year to create the following list. Michael Levans, Group Editorial Director. All Topics.