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FedEx Ground warehouse shooting shocks normally stable system

Fatal shooting at warehouse

Violence in the warehouse is rare, which could reflect the success of stakeholders in keeping it that way. Just as rare, it seems, is public discourse surrounding the issue. Few people want to discuss it on or off the record. The Warehouse Education and Research Council (WERC), the leading trade group for warehouse executives, hasn’t published anything on workplace violence since 2002. Then, Barry Brandman, president and CEO of Fair Lawn, New Jersey-based Danbee Investigations, which marks its...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fedex-ground-warehouse-shooting-shocks-normally-stable-system

Logistics space in high demand, rents moving up

Demand for logistics warehouse space continues to grow

Logistics real estate provider Prologis Inc. (NYSE: PLD) pointed to a continuation in positive momentum from the fourth quarter as the catalyst for better-than-expected first-quarter results.

The San Francisco-based company reported core funds from operations of 97 cents per share Monday, 3 cents ahead of consensus and 14 cents higher than the year-ago quarter.

“Demand driven by the powerful economic recovery, retail revolution and higher inventory levels has unfolded more strongly than we...

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Surging demand for logistics properties highlighted in Prologis’ Q1 report

Demand for logistics space continues to grow

Prologis Inc. (NYSE: PLD) reported core funds from operations of 97 cents per share Monday, 3 cents ahead of the consensus estimate and 14 cents better than the year-ago quarter.

The San Francisco-based logistics real estate investment trust said occupancy was steady in the quarter at 95.4% with leases commenced (43.9 million square feet) increasing 25.4% year-over-year.

“The robust demand from the fourth quarter has carried into 2021 and is as strong as I have seen in my career,” said Hamid...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/surging-demand-for-logistics-properties-highlighted-in-prologis-q1-report

The United States of Amazon: 10 questions for Alec MacGillis

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has hooked millions of Americans with its remarkable skills in fusing product availability, technology and customer experience. The nation’s growing dependence on Amazon ignores, or overpowers, socioeconomic issues surrounding the company that might otherwise be front and center in national conversations. That may be the central message of Alec MacGillis’ critically acclaimed book: “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America.”

MacGillis, a reporter at...

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Amazon borrows from FedEx playbook to smoke union drive in Bessemer

There is no love lost between Jeff Bezos and Fred Smith, given the unpleasant break- up of their companies’ shipping marriage in 2019. Yet in decisively thwarting efforts to organize 5,800 workers at Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Bessemer, Alabama warehouse, Bezos took a page right from the FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) founder’s anti-union playbook.

Other than about 5,000 unionized pilots that came over after FedEx acquired the old Flying Tiger Line cargo airline in 1988, and a smattering of workers...

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Gnarlywood chooses inVia Robotics for fulfilment operations

One of the biggest names in Hollywood merchandise sales has chosen an e-commerce fulfilment system from inVia Robotics.

Gnarlywood Group, which provides backend merchandise fulfillment operations for some of the nation’s largest entertainment brands, will deploy inVia’s Logic artificial intelligence-powered warehouse execution system (WES) at its Carlsbad, California, warehouse. Gnarlywood will eventually add inVia’s Picker autonomous mobile robots as part of efforts to modernize and automate...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/gnarlywood-chooses-invia-robotics-for-fulfilment-operations

FreightWaves Classics: Northwest Seaport Alliance is first of its kind

An aerial view of the Port of Seattle in 2020. (Photo: Northwest Seaport Alliance)

Overview

Washington state’s two largest ports – Seattle and Tacoma – formed the Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA), a “marine cargo operating partnership” in 2014. The Alliance is the first of its kind in North America.

As a combined entity, the NWSA is North America’s fourth-largest container gateway. Under a port development authority, the NWSA manages most marine cargo facilities in both ports, including all containerized cargo operations, breakbulk, automobiles, project/heavy-lift cargoes, and...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/freightwaves-classics-northwest-seaport-alliance-is-first-of-its-kind

The struggle to organize warehouse labor

The effort by the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store union to organize 5,800 workers at Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse is being seen as a defining moment for the organized labor movement. The union has pushed the world’s most powerful company to the limit, earning plaudits from supporters and observers for its cohesion and determination. It even won the support of President Joe Biden, who in a near-unprecedented step for a sitting U.S. president defended the...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/the-struggle-to-organize-warehouse-labor

Trucking job numbers: stronger, but tempered

In the midst of one of the strongest freight markets in years, there are still fewer workers employed in the truck transportation sector than a year ago.

But this may be the last month for a while that statement can be made. Year-on-year comparisons from this point on will be looking at months in 2020 that were in the full grip of the pandemic. 

The employment report for March 2020 had already begun to show the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with employment figures for the truck transportation...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/trucking-job-numbers-stronger-but-tempered

Truck transport jobs rise in March, February figures revised upward too

After a few months of relatively weak employment growth in truck transportation, the industry added jobs in March and posted stronger revised numbers for February, according to figures released Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The monthly report showed that total jobs in the truck transportation sector climbed to 1,482,700 seasonally adjusted jobs, up from 1,479,400 jobs in February. However, the February number was revised up from the initial report of 1,475,700 jobs in the sector. 

Th...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-transport-jobs-rise-in-march-february-figures-revised-upward-too

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