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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)
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)
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)
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)
Indian logistics firm Xpressbees becomes unicorn with $300 million fresh funding – TechCrunch
Xpressbees, an Indian logistics startup that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, has more than tripled its valuation to $1.2 billio... (2022)
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)
Why it is easy to get lost in Costa Rica | The Economist
The country uses a mix of vague places, distances and compass directions as addresses | The Americas (2021)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
How to feed the planet - The global food supply chain is passing a severe test | Leaders
Keeping the world fed (2020)
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)
The man feeding a remote Alaska town with a Costco card and a ship
When Gustavus, Alaska, was cut off from its grocery supply chain, one resident decided to take action. (2020)
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)
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)
“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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?
The COVID-19 pandemic underscores why disaster preparedness is vital for supply chain resilience. (2020)
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)
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)
Two giant engineering projects will alter the European landscape - The Malmo-Palermo express
WHEN the Berlin Wall fell, Europe began repairing its sundered east-west transport networks. A revived Paris-Moscow train heralded the new era. Ber... (2018)
Mexico’s $7.5B Gamble to Disrupt the Panama Canal | WSJ Breaking Ground
Mexico’s $7.5 billion interoceanic corridor aims to ease a major chokehold in a global shipping mess and rival the Panama Canal. The stretch of lan... (2024)
The Insane Scale of Europe’s New Mega-Tunnel
Denmark is building a record-breaking tunnel to Germany. (2023)
The $11B Tunnel That Could Save One of Europe’s Busiest Mountain Corridors | WSJ Breaking Ground
Nestled under the Alps and the Italian-Austrian border, the Brenner Base Tunnel is poised to be the longest underground railway connection in the w... (2023)
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)
Panama Canal: Inside the World’s Largest Cargo Shipping Bottleneck Today | WSJ
The Panama Canal is running out of water, threatening to slow down the global supply chains and economies that depend on it. 40% of all U.S. contai... (2023)
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)
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)
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)
The Absurd Logistics of Concert Tours
The Absurd Logistics of Concert Tours (2022)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)