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Milestone for Autonomous Heavy-Duty Truck Commercialization

Logistics Business Magazine

This achievement underscores how L3 and L2+ autonomous heavy-duty trucks have been successfully deployed across the line-haul logistics sector, including express delivery, less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation, as well as contract logistics. This also reflects the significant value that autonomous trucks offer logistics operators.

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The End of the E-Commerce Hype Is Bad News for Planes

ShipLilly

Of course, that expectation could only hold if the upward trend in e-Commerce continued. For example, the online penetration of online footwear and apparel is expected to be 22%. For example, we know that the likes of DHL, UPS, FedEx, and Amazon.com announced a significant expansion in their air freight fleets.

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Geek+ Robotics Highlighted at Annual Microsoft Gathering

Logistics Business Magazine

On stage, the Microsoft tech leader operated the Geek+ S20 intelligent sorting solution, demonstrating in real time how the sorting robot can adjust his course when encountering an obstacle (in this case a large teddy bear) thanks to an easily operated application platform operating the AI system. Geek+ CARE Strategy.

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Is it Time for B2B Freight Providers to Learn From B2C?

Logistics Bureau

In consumer ecommerce, it’s common for retailers to offer free shipping as standard, with lead times of three days or more, faster shipping at a small premium, with a delivery promise of two to three days, and next-day or even same-day deliveries available for customers who care more about speed than cost.

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Retail Supply Chains: The State of Play in 2021

Logistics Bureau

With all that in mind, I thought I’d share some examples of the highs and lows of online and in-store retail that enterprises have endured between late 2019 and early 2021, and highlight some of the most notable changes in the retail supply chain arena during that period. The Dark Store Trend. Just-in-Time Just Doesn’t Work.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

The most famous shortage, of course, was the toilet paper shortage, which was really more about a shift in usage and panic buying than production. air delivery product, which promises deliveries by 8 the next morning; its next-day air product, which guarantees deliveries by 10:30 a.m.;