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This Week in Logistics News (September 30 – October 6)

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Under the service, called Return a Package, an Uber driver will pick up sealed and prepaid packages at a customer location and drop them off at a local post office or FedEx Corp. million sq ft of industrial space. ASL Airlines Ireland operates nine 737-800s in Europe under the Amazon livery. or UPS Inc.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 7 – 13)

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Weekend package delivery services have seen their ups and downs, as Sunday deliveries at one point became a hot commodity. This week, FedEx announced that it plans to scale back even more on Sunday package deliveries as the courier grapples with faltering e-commerce demand. UPS hit its delivery commitments 96.9

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Case Study: From Manual to Industry 4.0 in One Year

Logistics Business Magazine

The project entailed intelligent strapping machinery with a fully automated parcel distribution system that combines state-of-the-art conveyor and strapping technology with automated data processing and Industry 4.0. Each day, around 1,000 parcels are processed and prepared for delivery at HANSA-FLEX headquarters in Bremen.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 23 – 29)

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The technology analyzes address characteristics and generates a ‘Delivery Confidence Score’ for each address. If the address produced a low score, then a package recipient can then recommend in-store collection or a UPS pick-up point. It partners with a domestic airline to offer more than 2,500 daily flights across the U.S.

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

Statistics depict an industry straining to fulfill its mission in the face of a booming e-commerce sector and unprecedented demand for services, particularly in the trucking and courier industries. But many people are not aware that last-mile deliveries are also handled by thousands of small local and regional package delivery firms.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 23 – 29)

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The recent announcement underscores some of the uncertainties merchants have to deal with when they rely on fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to meet orders. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries signed a memorandum of understanding with electrofuels producer Infinium to advance development of electrofuels in the Japanese market.

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Visibility-Driven Workflow for Transportation Execution

Talking Logistics

Despite industry professionals talking about it for 20+ years, many companies still don’t have real supply chain visibility beyond a rudimentary level. If you can track an Uber driver or an Amazon package delivery on your smartphone, why can’t supply chain visibility be just as easy? You need to meet the data where it’s at.