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A New Year’s Resolution for Delivery Companies — Ending Porch Piracy

Morai Logistics

Funny as the video is, it highlights a problem that’s been growing recently—package theft. According to a survey by Ring, a home security company, up to 1 in 5 U.S homeowners were victims of package theft in the last year. More Deliveries Means More Opportunities for Thieves to Ruin Someone’s Holidays.

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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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Transport Drones & Autonomous Vehicles: The Transportation Mode Dance Card is Getting Full

GlobalTranz

First off, the video shows the use of machine-to-machine connectivity, a hallmark of the Internet of Things (IoT), and you notice the transport drones do not appear to be currently operated by a human, which implies a preprogrammed effort to allow drones to automatically arrive at their destinations.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 22 – 27)

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Concern about supply chain disruptions triggered by the Lunar New Year holiday that began this week is running higher this year than last, according to a survey from the German container logistics platform Container xChange. Smaller parcel carriers made big gains during the pandemic handling packages that the larger players couldn’t deliver.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 23 – 29)

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As part of the journey, the Zevo 600 transported a shipment of Full Circle sustainable cleaning products from its headquarters in New York City to a MOM’s Organic Market location in Washington, DC, a Mid-Atlantic chain of family-owned and operated organic grocery stores. 1 of the year following the end of the vehicle’s minimum useful life.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 1 – 7)

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According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), which has been conducting an annual survey on Mother’s Day spending since 2003, as more people are getting vaccinated and stimulus checks are being distributed, consumers are going all out for moms this year. Drone deliveries will always make some people uneasy.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 21 – 27)

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billion, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. This commitment goes beyond the authority’s direct emissions and extends to emissions produced by its operating partners, including marine terminal operators, oceangoing vessel operators, railroads, and trucking companies.