The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Transportation Service #1 – Small Package. Package delivery or parcel delivery is the shipping of packages (parcels) or high-value mail as single shipments. Package delivery or parcel delivery is the shipping of packages (parcels) or high-value mail as single shipments. Jeremy Thone.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

UPS dominated business and trade headlines for a day in late January when the world’s largest package delivery company announced plans to cut 12,000 full- and part-time management jobs as part of a new initiative called “Fit to Serve.” Take onboarding and training new employees.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2019

Eliminating interim stops (like overnight hubs) makes these local deliveries extremely fast and extremely inexpensive, and grants Amazon entry into the courier/ gig delivery market. Today, for example, Amazon pre-loads un-purchased products onto a truck knowing they will be ordered by the time the truck reaches an area.

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MTS Logistics

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

White glove transportation services generally refers to the last mile of delivery, but may include the first mile of delivery, as well as the in-between parts of the delivery. For example, say a rare piece of art needs to be delivered to New York City from Los Angeles and must get there in less than three days for an exhibition.

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Bringg

JULY 4, 2018

Last week Amazon launched Delivery Services Partners , a new initiative aimed at encouraging entrepreneurs to set up their own delivery business. Or, as TechCrunch described it , Amazon just launched its own UPS competitor of sorts, by offering leased vans, training and resources to those who want to drive for Amazon instead of Uber.

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WorkWave

APRIL 6, 2022

A package delivery vehicle may stop at over a hundred locations a day, while a long-haul trucker may stop several times a day for food, gas, sleep, and other necessities. However, there are too many areas where Google Maps falls short for us to suggest using it for anything except the shortest and most direct deliveries.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2015

Logistics is the prime example of a changing industry – colossal, ripe for disruption and utterly opaque. And it’s about to get hit by a freight train of innovation. Package Delivery. How much do we love freight innovation? Kontainers. Online freight forwarder (U.K.-China) China) primarily for SME shippers.

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