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This Week in Logistics News (April 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

How Walmart and Alphabet jumped ahead of Amazon in drone delivery. USPS slowing first-class package delivery to lower costs. The slower delivery times will allow it to use more trains and trucks as modes of transportation, which is more cost-effective and reliable than air transportation.

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

GlobalTranz

Trains provide an excellent way of moving plenty of goods across the country, but it too is limited. Transport drones could be deployed from a train to deliver packages as they approach certain destinations. And according to a BI intelligence survey of major cities, people are willing to pay for the service.

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Supply chain technologies highlight findings from 2019 Third-Party Logistics Study – Canadian Shipper

247 Customs Broker

Shippers recognize the need for agility, but 42 percent of survey respondents said they have not made the required changes to improve their agility over the past five years. Yet, only roughly a third of all survey takers agreed that companies do enough to effectively manage last yard issues. 3PLStudy.com. .

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Penske Logistics Presents 2019 Third-Party Logistics Study: State of Logistics Outsourcing

Penske Move Ahead

Shippers recognize the need for agility, but 42 percent of survey respondents said they have not made the required changes to improve their agility over the past five years. Yet, only roughly a third of all survey takers agreed that companies do enough to effectively manage last yard issues. 3PLStudy.com.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

According to the annual survey by the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics, nearly 180 million Americans shopped during the five-day holiday shopping period from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday. Black Friday is in the books, and unsurprisingly, it was a big one. That is a sobering thought.