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Emergent Cold Latin America | December 09, 2021

Emergent Cold Latin America (Emergent LatAm), Latin America’s newest temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics provider, and DP World, a global logistics company and one of the world’s largest marine terminal operators, announced their intention to partner on the development of two temperature-controlled logistics facilities within DP World Logistics Parks in Latin America. These developments will provide Emergent LatAm and DP World customers with a fully integrated supply cha...

CGTN | February 23, 2020

The worry that the global supply chain, especially of the auto industry, would be severely damaged by the sudden strike of the coronavirus, is being gradually mitigated as the world's second-largest economy steadily guides companies to resume operation with policy supports and boosting consumption. The novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, first detected in the city of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, in December has already claimed the lives of more than 2,400 people worldwide wit...

6 River Systems | September 16, 2020

A spike in e-commerce volumes driven by coronavirus travel restrictions may slow down after a safe vaccine is eventually found, but its impact on fulfillment automation processes is here to stay, according to a top executive at Shopify, an e-commerce platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). As the pandemic prevented consumers from congregating in brick and mortar stores, so many of them turned to e-commerce shopping that the online retail sector experienced five years’ worth ...

UPS | August 20, 2020

A combination of tight capacity and rising volume means logistics costs will continue to "improve" in UPS' favor, according to a research note from UBS, penned after a meeting between analysts at the bank and UPS' investor relations team."UPS is transitioning to a slower pace of capacity addition in 2021 and we believe broader package industry capacity expansion is also likely to be modest," the research note reads. "Assuming a backdrop of economic growth i...