Maersk developing the tech to create the 'Amazon of logistics'
Maersk is looking to build an “Amazon for logistics” with its integrator strategy, supported by ...
Exhaustive long read from The Guardian on the rise of e-commerce retail and how the centrality of the B2C supply chains to functioning e-commerce is redefining society. Some of it will be familiar to regular Loadstar readers, but the wealth of detail and holistic narrative structure make it a hugely satisfying piece of journalism. “For thousands of years, human progress was indexed to the ease and speed of our mobility: our capacity to walk on two legs, and then to ...
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