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Tesla | March 31, 2020

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the automaker has ventilators and it is going to use its logistic network to deliver them to hospitals for free. Several hospitals in the US are finding themselves in need of ventilators to help save patients who are more badly affected by the coronavirus. In previous comments over the last month, Musk has been skeptical that there’s going to be a need for more ventilators. The CEO believes that we “may have passed the inflection point for US cases ...

Walmart | February 27, 2020

Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) is a service where select sellers can leverage Walmart’s state-of-the-art supply chain capabilities - ranging from storing, picking, packing and shipping items to handling returns and customer service. WFS has been created to enable sellers to generate more profitable sales of their inventory at scale, while in tandem growing their business through Walmart Marketplace. Helping to create WFS is Netrush and Pattern. Both firms work with other organisations ...

Transportation

Enghouse Transportation | April 13, 2022

Enghouse Transportation, a unit of Enghouse Systems Limited (TSX: ENGH) has partnered with electronic payment firm Switchio (a division of Monet+) to expand its automated transit fare collection offering. Enghouse Transportation, an established provider of automated fair collection transit software solutions in the Netherlands, Central Europe and Eastern Europe, is expanding into the North American market. Our strategic cooperation with Switchio bolsters our ability...

The Loadstar | February 13, 2020

Shippers are increasingly pulling their logistics providers into blockchain as they employ the technology to form networks with business partners and tech providers. Walmart is very much in the vanguard, having set up a blockchain-based freight and payment network in Canada and about to launch a pharmaceutical utility network. According to Walmart and technology provider DLT Labs, the network is the largest “full production blockchain solution for any industrial application” on the p...