Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 26, 2020

Purolator International, a provider of North American logistics services, has expanded its next-day air delivery into Canada, making the service available to more U.S.-based based shippers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 9, 2021

UPS has reinstated money-back delivery guarantees on packages moving under its three next-day air delivery products. However, UPS said it has loosened the deadlines on its next-afternoon air deliveries to make it easier to meet its service commitments without being penalized.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 10, 2022

Most recently, Cardinal Health started air delivery of pharmaceutical products and medical supplies via Zipline drone in North Carolina. The Zipline flights make Phoenix-based Magellan Rx Management the only national pharmacy benefits manager delivering prescription medications directly to patients at home using drones.

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Airfreight Logistics

MARCH 12, 2020

In a first for drone delivery in the U.S., With an expanded Air Carrier Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Wing has become the first company to operate a commercial air delivery service via drone directly to homes in the United States.

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Logistics Manager

JULY 4, 2018

The RDC dealer distribution in Beijing and Shanghai will provide daily road and air deliveries of spare parts to 340 dealers in North, Central and Eastern China. The center was built to feed the continued growth in the Poland markets, serving 125 dealers in North-Eastern Germany along with 35 in Poland itself.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 16, 2021

UPS plans to test the eVTOLs in its Express Air delivery network to replace small planes that can carry 500 to 3,000 pounds. Domino’s Pizza has not been shy about testing new technologies to make deliveries. The company is now partnering with Nuro in Houston to make robocar deliveries.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 15, 2022

I believe we’re witnessing the birth of a new transportation mode, one that will take many years to develop and mature (but will probably happen sooner than we think), and one that will make our current discussions about driverless cars and same-day delivery sound silly in retrospect. I wrote that back in February 2013 in.

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