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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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This Week in Logistics News (July 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Secretary of Transportation, told CNBC on Friday morning that what the government is watching for over the course of the day, as the issue has been identified, is “the kind of ripple or cascade effects as they get everything back in their networks back to normal.”

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Industry View: Top Tips for Perfecting your Omnichannel Offering

Logistics Business Magazine

This includes clearly confirming your delivery and express delivery timings on your online store which is crucial to avoid disappointment and bad reviews. It is very important to keep communications with customers timely and update them as the situation changes.

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Jack Ma predicts the future of logistics

The Logistics Academy

China now has largest express delivery industry in the world. Jack Ma isn’t an outsider in China’s logistics business, of course. The past ten years of express delivery development has shown off the power of startups, of people, and of innovation,” Ma said.

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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.

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

Logistics Bureau

The third category of shopper sits somewhere in the middle, and while not wanting to wait several days to receive her purchases, is averse to paying a high delivery charge. . This type of customer will hence settle for paying a moderate fee to receive her purchases within three days.

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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. Moreover, the smaller aircraft (that would have been better suited to carrying lower volumes for frequent express deliveries) are being converted to meet a demand that is simply not there. This represents a distortion of the business model.