warehousing and distribution

Warehousing and fulfillment startup Flexe lays off 99 workers

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Seattle-based startup Flexe has laid off 99 workers, about 38% of its workforce, according to a...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/warehousing-and-fulfillment-startup-flexe-lays-off-99-workers

Supply Chain Integration Via The East Midlands Gateway Campus

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  • Supply chains across the United Kingdom have historically encountered a number of issues trading with their European neighbours.
  • Back in the 1980s, stringent regulations and controls at the border created barriers for UK importers and exporters – adding a great deal of friction to just about every transaction.
  • It heralded the need for businesses to have several alternative suppliers in place, as well as hold a lot more stock at any given time.

A recent news...

Amazon Warehousing & Distribution is coming in 2023

Amazon distribution center warehouse

America’s most prolific marketplace is continuing its push to monopolize its sellers’ entire supply chains.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) this week announced a new service that will grant sellers access to its massive warehousing and distribution network. 

The pay-as-you-go offering, called Amazon Warehousing & Distribution (AWD), will let sellers ship inventory to what the company describes as “new, purpose-built facilities for bulk inventory storage and automated distribution.” But Amazon added that...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/amazon-warehousing-distribution-is-coming-in-2023

FreightWaves Classics: Dependable Supply Chain Services began with a single tractor

A Dependable Highway Express tractors pulls twin trailers. (Photo: godependable.com)

Dependable Supply Chain Services is a full-service logistics provider and one of the top 100 trucking companies in the United States. Among the services the company provides are trucking (less-than-truckload [LTL], truckload [TL] and harbor drayage), warehousing and distribution, third-party logistics, air freight forwarding, ocean freight forwarding, freight transport to and from Hawaii and Guam and supply chain consulting. 

Harry Massman began Dependable Trucking in Los Angeles in 1950 with...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classics-dependable-supply-chain-services-began-with-a-single-tractor

Maersk Offers Cargo Management Programme To Cut Costs By 50%

  • Study shows 50% reduction in D&D exposure.
  • Data-driven approach shapes trucker discussions nationwide to address supply chain fragmentation at destination.
  • Full visibility of destination supply chain.

Maersk North America’s Destination Cargo Management (DCM) product is designed to optimize destination planning and delivery in supply chains. This segment holds the most opportunity for importers to reduce demurrage and detention (D&D) storage costs and improve end user experience, according to...

https://mfame.guru/maersk-offers-cargo-management-programme-to-cut-costs-by-50/

Baltimore’s ‘inland’ port takes shape on e-commerce demand

Tradepoint Atlantic

Evidence of what was once the largest steel plant on the U.S. East Coast has rapidly disappeared as distribution centers begin to cover the 3,300-acre site near Baltimore.

Six years ago, industrial real estate developers Hilco Real Estate and Redwood Capital Investments acquired the former Bethlehem Steel plant property at Sparrows Point, Maryland, and began to transform the site through their joint venture, Tradepoint Atlantic.

After several years of remediation, the first distribution centers...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/baltimores-inland-port-takes-shape-on-e-commerce-demand

Ryder launches ad campaign touting supply chain

Multimedia blitz highlights part of Ryder’s business unfamiliar to many

Ryder System Inc. (NYSE:R) has launched a national multimedia advertising campaign to highlight its supply chain and dedicated transportation businesses, capabilities that the general public normally doesn’t associate with the 87-year-old company.

The campaign, called “Ever better World of Logistics,” debuted over the weekend and is originally scheduled to run through December. However, it will probably be extended into the...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/ryder-launches-ad-campaign-touting-supply-chain

Siemens Healthineers taps DHL to manage North American distribution

Medical technology company Siemens Healthineers (OTCMKTS: SMMNY) has entered a 10-year service agreement with DHL Supply Chain to oversee its product distribution in North America.

The distribution operation will be housed at a DHL Supply Chain-owned facility in Memphis, Tennessee. Siemens Healthineers is expected to occupy about 260,000 square feet of the 422,000-square-foot facility. It will include 105 employees.

Neither company disclosed financial terms of the service agreement.

The facility...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/siemens-healthineers-taps-dhl-to-manage-north-american-distribution

Lineage Logistics completes Emergent Cold acquisition

Lineage Logistics, the world’s largest temperature-controlled logistics provider,announced the completion of its acquisition of Emergent Cold.

The transaction was originally expected to add 46 facilities throughout the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam and Sri Lanka to Lineage’s network. The deal includes New Orleans Cold Storage, which Emergent acquired earlier in 2019, and its four port facilities in New Orleans, Houston and Charleston as well as newly constructed distribution...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/lineage-logistics-completes-emergent-cold-acquisition

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