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This Week in Logistics News (October 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

Alphabet’s Wing tests drone deliveries from shopping center rooftops. Stop & Shop kicks off Express delivery. The timing is particularly bad, with the shipping industry already facing congested supply lines that are delaying deliveries of clothes and toys for the year-end holidays.

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Industry View: Top Tips for Perfecting your Omnichannel Offering

Logistics Business Magazine

Ciaran outlines that retailers considering a move to an omnichannel solution should focus on three primary aspects: synchronised data/stock, diversified sales channels and the user experience. Synchronising data and stock. It also means having a fully integrated supply chain to maximise stock value.”.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

UPS agreed to acquire Mexican express delivery company Estafeta , in a deal aimed at expanding the U.S.-based The trucking industry is turning a corner after a prolonged freight recession that succeeded the Covid boom in transportation rate and services, according to logistics executives. The report, which analyzed 8.4

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If the complicated logistics process is simplified

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

However, can we now combine blockchain technology to achieve the decentralization of the logistics industry, so that each link is relatively independent, but stable? From a data perspective, the blockchain is a distributed database that is almost impossible to change. First of all ,What is blackchain ?

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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. The impact our technology is having on the logistics industry is profound.

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China’s e-commerce gold rush is on, and deliverymen dig in

The Logistics Academy

HONG KONG — Couriers and hulking warehouses are to China’s US$600 billion (S$852 billion) e-commerce sector what shovels were to the gold rush: The crucial element of a rapidly growing industry. The mainland industry is worth some US$2.2 But such scenes are being erased by the logistics industry. “It FINANCIAL TIMES.

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Jack Ma predicts the future of logistics

The Logistics Academy

You can talk about the miracle of ecommerce in China or in the world,” he said, “but the logistics industry is where China’s real great miracle has been over the past decade.”. “I I just saw a delivery company that helped a client deliver a house. China now has largest express delivery industry in the world.