Cloud tools help retailers cope with new buying patterns as pandemic impacts linger
Companies accelerate digital transformation plans to support e-commerce, mobile apps, store fulfillment, curbside pickup.
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Ben Ames
Ben Ames has spent 20 years as a journalist since starting out as a daily newspaper reporter in Pennsylvania in 1995. From 1999 forward, he has focused on business and technology reporting for a number of trade journals, beginning when he joined Design News and Modern Materials Handling magazines. Ames is author of the trail guide "Hiking Massachusetts" and is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism.
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China and U.S. face “reckoning” over trade disruptions in 2021
Supply chain law firm forecasts rise in re-shoring, automation as businesses look to trim dependency on manufacturing powerhouse.
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Federal stimulus bill set to boost transportation interests with payroll, maintenance funding
$900 billion package includes support for airlines, highways, harbors, as industry groups already eye a third round of help in 2021.
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Logistics trade groups say infrastructure should be top goal for Buttigieg at Department of Transportation
Past rebuilding initiatives have failed for lack of funds, but pandemic could motivate new effort to speed supply chains, create jobs.
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Blizzard threatens northeast states amid vaccine shipments, holiday peak surge
Gusty nor'easter could slow shipments through airports, maritime, highways.
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Exporters cheer U.S. effort to clear shipping container blockage
Federal Maritime Commission to investigate ocean carriers operating in alliances as shippers wince under late fees.
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Warehouse construction leads business recovery as e-commerce booms
Full economic rebound will rely on Covid vaccine, second stimulus bill, Dodge and JLL warn.
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Retail trade groups press for covid stimulus funds as Washington transition continues
IFDA and NRF balance their agendas between Trump and Biden administrations.
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Amazon flies into Germany with retailer’s first cargo hub in Europe
E-commerce powerhouse leases two Boeing 737 cargo jets to accelerate e-commerce service in region with two flights per day.
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Transportation industry groups say priorities in Biden presidency should be infrastructure, pandemic.
Incoming administration proposes $1.3 trillion investment over 10 years in the Highway Trust Fund, transportation sector competitive grant programs, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects.
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