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Supply Chain Dive | July 02, 2020

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement entered into force Wednesday morning after three years of trilateral negotiations, trade disputes and amendments by the U.S. Congress.While the agreement has been hailed for raising standards for and increasing enforcement of certain labor, environmental, pharmaceutical and digital trade provisions, shippers are still struggling to determine how the transition from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to the USMCA will impact their business. ...

Supply Chain Dive | January 27, 2020

Supply and demand for industrial warehouse space will increase in lockstep through 2021 as North American square footage dedicated to warehousing increases, but vacancy rates hold at roughly 5%, predicted Cushman & Wakefield in a report released Friday. In 2019, industrial real estate supply caught up with booming demand created by the swift expansion of e-commerce, reversing a nine-year trend of undersupply. Cushman & Wakefield pegs North American vacancy at 4.6% for the whole of 2019. ...

Particle | April 29, 2020

Particle, the edge-to-cloud IoT platform built to connect the unconnected, today announced its new Tracking System to provide organizations with the ability to track the locations of a wide variety of mobile assets with its powerful, configurable, extensible and field-ready solution. In a forthcoming study from Particle that surveyed over 1,000 IoT engineers and industry experts, Asset Tracking ranked as one of the top three most in-demand applications for IoT technology.Built on the Parti...

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Walmart | December 17, 2020

Walmart's multi-temperature autonomous box trucks will go completely driverless along a two-mile test route in Bentonville, Arkansas, in early 2021, the retailer reported Tuesday. The organizations likewise declared they are expanding their operation to a second pilot program along a longer, 20-mile route between a New Orleans supercenter and a Metairie, Louisiana, pickup point. Walmart's move to driverless with Gatik will test the full potential of center m...