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DC Velocity | March 23, 2020

Professional groups in the logistics industry are swinging into action this week to keep supply chains moving despite deep disruptions from the coronavirus crisis, according to statements from MHI, MHEDA, and the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN). Typical freight flows have been snarled across the country by the widespread closures and shelter-in-place policies applied to slow the lightning-fast spread of Covid-19, the potentially deadly respiratory disease caused by the new virus. While tho...

Cointelegraph | January 30, 2020

Major car manufacturer Mercedes Benz and blockchain startup Circulor are jointly rolling out a pilot aimed at the tracing carbon emissions in the cobalt supply chain. According to a Jan. 30 press release, the project by Mercedes and Circulor comes as part of the Startup Autobahn initiative, aimed at identifying next-generation automobiles. The companies will deploy blockchain to trace the emissions of climate-relevant gases and the amount of recycled materials along the complex supply chains of ...

The Financial Express | May 26, 2020

Logistics has suddenly been thrust to the centre of the Covid-19 pandemic across the globe. Things are no different in India. Logistics is no longer an activity that happens in the background, it is now the differentiator. The pandemic has brought both opportunities and challenges for startups. The strange thing is that both the challenge and the opportunity is logistics. For e-grocery, e-commerce, food delivery, and other on-demand service companies, this period might very well be the epochal m...

Amazon | February 19, 2020

Thousands of delivery drivers across the country who work for small and medium-size logistics companies that contract with Amazon.com found out in mid-February they may lose their jobs in April, though Amazon said they will have opportunities for other positions with its partners. On Friday, Transportation Brokerage Specialists Inc. (TBS), headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, became the latest company to file a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act notice of a mass layoff....