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Amazon logistics and delivery - business model and strategy

Amazon logistics and delivery - business model and strategy

Outsourcing, Near-shoring - Globalization and Supply Chains, Logistics and global shipping

Outsourcing, Near-shoring - Globalization and Supply Chains, Logistics and global shipping

Startups with a focus on Transportation, Frieght, Logistics, Shipping and Technology

Startups with a focus on Transportation, Frieght, Logistics, Shipping and Technology

Live events, concerts - business, logistics

Live events, concerts - business, logistics

Commercial Truck Driving - careers, jobs, logistics, transportation

Commercial Truck Driving - careers, jobs, logistics, transportation

Toyota - Car Manufacturing, Automobile - Industry

Toyota - Car Manufacturing, Automobile - Industry

International - Home Delivery companies- Transportation, Frieght, Logistics and Technology

International - Home Delivery companies- Transportation, Frieght, Logistics and Technology

Commercial Truck and Vehicle - Rental business

commercial vehicles companies like Penske, Ryder, U-Haul and more

Hyperloop - innovation in Transportation, Frieght, Logistics and Technology

Hyperloop - innovation in Transportation, Frieght, Logistics and Technology

Shippo - Supply Chains, Logistics and global shipping

Shippo - Supply Chains, Logistics and global shipping

Manufacturing and distribution - the vaccine for COVID19, Coronavirus

After a vaccine is discovered, we will need to mass produce and distribute it. Manufacturing ca...

Meat shortage? - Food and supply chains during COVID19 Coronavirus

Meat shortage? - Food and supply chains during COVID19 Coronavirus

USPS - the US postal service

USPS - the US postal service

Miami - shopping for food and groceries during COVID19 Coronavirus

Food and supply chains - COVID19 Coronavirus

Food and supply chains - COVID19 Coronavirus

Food and supply chains - COVID19 Coronavirus

Deliveries and Self-driving autonomous vehicles

trends, tech and issues related to AI and autonomous vehicles -- with a special look at the techn...

Supply Chains, Logistics and global shipping

a collection of articles and ideas about Supply Chains, Logistics and global shipping

Resources within this category

Article

Investing in MVMNT - operating system for midmarket and small freight brokers and shippers - Andreessen Horowitz

We’re thrilled to announce our investment in MVMNT, the operating system for midmarket and small freight brokers and shippers. (2022)


Article

Can software simplify the supply chain? Ryan Petersen thinks so - The Verge

The Flexport CEO’s tweetstorm changed how a major US port moves your stuff in the midst of the COVID-19 supply chain crisis. A Silicon Valley darli... (2022)


Article

Flexport: How to Move the World | The Generalist

The $8 billion freight forwarder has succeeded by bringing tech to an archaic industry. It has designs on a bigger prize: owning the data layer for... (2022)


Article

Beyond Aggregation: Amazon as a Service – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Amazon’s new Buy With Prime announced the arrival of Amazon Logistics as a Service, and is a big red flag for Shopify. (2022)


Article

America Is Choking Under an ‘Everything Shortage’ - The Atlantic

The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive. (2021)


Article

Indonesian logistics startup SiCepat raises $170 million Series B – TechCrunch

SiCepat, an end-to-end logistics startup in Indonesia, announced today it has raised a $170 million Series B funding round. Founded in 2014 to prov... (2021)


Article

Fluid Truck, the Zipcar of commercial trucks, raises $63M to take on rental giants – TechCrunch

Fluid Truck has built an app-based platform that aims to take away the pain and cost of owning or leasing commercial vehicles, all while grabbing m... (2021)


Article

Shippo raises $45M more at $495M valuation as e-commerce booms – TechCrunch

This morning Shippo, a software company that provides shipping-related services to e-commerce companies, announced a new $45 million investment. Th... (2021)


Article

How to Ship a Vaccine at minus –80°C, and Other Obstacles in the Covid Fight - The New York Times

Developing an effective vaccine is the first step. Then comes the question of how to deliver hundreds of millions of doses that may need to be kept... (2020)


Article

Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet

The FAA approval will give Amazon broad privileges to "safely and efficiently deliver packages to customers." (2020)



Article

Target to acquire same-day delivery tech from Deliv

Target, which already owns on-demand delivery service Shipt, is in the process of acquiring technology assets from same-day delivery service Deliv.... (2020)


Article

If we let the US Postal Service die, we’ll be killing small businesses with it

If we continue to view the USPS as simply a balance sheet and optimize for profitability in a vacuum, we ultimately stand to lose far more than we ... (2020)


Article

Instacart announces new COVID-19 policies and plans to hire 250,000 more shoppers

Instacart’s aggressive hiring spree is continuing due to COVID-19 shelter in place orders. Today, the company announced it is adding 250,000 more s... (2020)


Article

“Instead of coronavirus, the hunger will kill us.” A global food crisis looms. — The New York Times

The world has never faced a hunger emergency like this, experts say. It could double the number of people facing acute hunger to 265 million by the... (2020)


Article

Trump to U.S. Postal Service: Drop Dead — Rolling Stone

The president made it clear that he would veto the coronavirus relief bill if it included any emergency funding for the agency (2020)


Article

Shippo raises a $30M Series C after posting rapid 2019 growth

Early this afternoon Shippo, a shipping software and services company, announced that it has closed a $30 million Series C. The funding round rough... (2020)


Article

What Everyone’s Getting Wrong About the Toilet Paper Shortage

Around the world, in countries afflicted with the coronavirus, stores are sold out of toilet paper. There have been shortages in Hong Kong, Austral... (2020)


Article

Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic

The grocer started communicating with its Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prep... (2020)


Article

Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?

The COVID-19 pandemic underscores why disaster preparedness is vital for supply chain resilience. (2020)


Article

Nuro’s new delivery R2 bot gets the first driverless vehicle exemption from feds

Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup that raised $940 million in financing from SoftBank Vision Fund last year, is the first company to receive a ... (2020)


Article

How our home delivery habit reshaped the world - The Guardian (2019)

The long read: The great trick of online retail has been to get us to shop more and think less about how our purchases reach our homes "The volu... (2019)


Video

Amazon’s Same-Day Delivery Strategy: How Much Faster Can It Go? | WSJ Shipping Wars

Amazon is the king of fast delivery – it pioneered the free two-day shipping model customers have come to expect. As competitors like Walmart and T... (2023)


Video

How Robots Could Help Retailers Save Billions

Outfitted with cameras and sensors, autonomous inventory robots can verify price signs and look for out-of-stock items. Inventory is one of the big... (2023)


Video

Penn Station: The $7BN Plan to Save New York's Most Hated Train Station

Manhattan's Penn Station is finally getting an update. Skip the waitlist and invest in blue-chip art for the very first time by signing up for Mast... (2023)


Video

Amazing Invention - This Drone Will Change Everything - Zipline Drones

These folks engineering a much better way to deliver your basically anything. If you want to engineer your own creations with me every month, just ... (2023)


Video

The Absurd Logistics of Concert Tours

The Absurd Logistics of Concert Tours (2022)


Video

How Ocean Shipping Works (And Why It's Broken)

Sign up for the Nebula/CuriosityStream bundle deal at http://CuriosityStream.com/WendoverWatch an exclusive behind the scenes video showing how we ... (2021)


Video

Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID)

Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID) A look at the Toyota “just in time” (JIT) supply chain system (2021)


Video

USPS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

As the U.S. Postal Service faces financial catastrophe, John Oliver discusses why the service is so important, what brought it to this point, and w... (2020)


Video

Coronavirus IV: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver discusses how Coronavirus is impacting the US workforce, from mass unemployment to the problems faced by essential workers. Connect wit... (2020)


Podcast

America's Truck Driver Crisis Is Complicated - 1A | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from 1A on Spotify. Truck driving in America remains in crisis. There are 80,000 fewer drivers on the road than needed, acco... (2022)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: The Golden Era of Productivity, Retail, and Supply Chains - Andreessen Horowitz

Container ships, supply chains, and retail This podcast rerun -- first recorded over two and a half years ago, now being rerun as one of our eve... (2017)


Podcast

Can Global Shipping Go Zero Carbon? : NPR

A lot of the stuff we buy in the U.S. comes by ship — ships that use a particularly dirty kind of fuel. Now a big shipping company says it wants to... (2019)


Website

Shippo API

Powerful Shipping API Built For Your Needs. Learn more about our shipping API and how to connect to Shippo to accommodate your shipping needs an... (2020)


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