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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. New research from the NCC Group illustrates that the number of cyberattacks on supply chains increased by 51 percent during the period from July to December of 2021.

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Top 25 Supply Chains of 2018

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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. Content Summary: Soft drink giant Coca-Cola Co.

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UPS Opens New £120 Million London Facility

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That is why we are committed to enhancing their productivity and maximising their potential, as set out in our port connectivity study. Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem DP World Group Chairman and CEO said, “We congratulate UPS on this strategic development.

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Current studies forecast a huge growth in industry drone application,” says Philipp Wrycza, research fellow at Fraunhofer IML, who explains that there are three main uses for drones in the automotive industry: transportation, stocktaking and inspection. “We Robert Garbett, founder of Drone Major Group. billion ($1.6

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

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But many people are not aware that last-mile deliveries are also handled by thousands of small local and regional package delivery firms. Package delivery companies are prime targets as well. Shippers saw major rate increases and adjustments in surcharges from the U.S. Postal Service, UPS and FedEx.

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U.S. Dept. of Treasury Task Force issues report to help remedy financial outlook for USPS

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A bright spot for the USPS, though, has been its Shipping and Packages Group, whose FY 2018 revenue rose $2 billion, or 10.1%, to $21.5 Congress also killed the opportunity to save significant dollars by eliminating Saturday Mail Delivery (keeping Package delivery), Surveys showed Americans were in favor of this change.”.