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This Week in Logistics News (April 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

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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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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How Digitalization can Revolutionize Your B2B E-commerce Business

Locus

End-to-end last-mile tracking on orders is now possible while operating with multiple partners like logistics providers, forwarders, and express companies. Example: A wholesale business supplies meat to some of the restaurants regularly. Example: A brand supplies alcohol and beverages to retail outlets and restaurants regularly.

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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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The European Cross-Border E-Commerce Challenge: How You Can Turn Logistics into a Competitive Advantage

Sabinext

Unsurprisingly, this often means longer delivery times: It takes about 1 to 2 days to deliver an order from a German provider to a German consumer but for example, about 3 to 5 days to deliver to Germany from the UK. Consumers can often choose next day Express delivery, but this comes at a considerable price premium.

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TCT: A New Collaboration between PSA and SCG Logistics

Logistics Manager

Also, the idea aims to provide services that meet customers’ demands in multimodule transportation between sea freight and ground freight. To give an example, for an importer, once the vessel arrives at the port, TCT will deliver the cargo to the customer’s distribution center via our truck fleet.

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Last Mile Delivery Services are Key to Strong e-Commerce Growth

Logistics Manager

For Lalamove’s services, Mr. Nattee elaborated, “Lalamove offers last mile deliveries with a focus mainly with on-demand express delivery services. These are among the most attractive factors of a last mile delivery service that help keep a customer loyal to a service provider.