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Electrified planes will carry cargo soon

DHL investing in electric feeder planes, Vancouver-based Harbour Air building electric De Havilland Beavers

Owning the supply chain

Combilift launches heavy-duty electric forktruck

Over 880,000 Canadian jobs vulnerable in clean energy transition

Teamsters file to unionize a second Amazon warehouse in Alberta

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International group refining digital twins for warehousing

The Kion Group and its partners LeddarTech, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the STARS Lab at the University of Toronto have started a research project called Artificial Intelligence-Based Indoor Cartography (ARIBIC)

Innovation

3PLs innovate to keep up with pivoting supply chains

Pandemic pressures have forced retailers to deliver a superior e-commerce experience. More are turning to 3PLs to fill in the gaps.

DC & Warehouse Operations

Amazon expanding robotics manufacturing

New plant will be located in Massachusetts

Opinions

Analytics

Will the Covid-19 crisis lead to more resilient supply chains?

Michael Haughton

Import, Export & Trade

Brexit fears started hitting UK trade as early as 2015 – new research

Terence Huw Edwards & Mustapha Douch

Capacity

Federal leadership on supply chains won’t solve everything, but it might help

Bruce Rodgers, Executive Director, CIFFA

Import, Export & Trade

CUSMA one year in

Christian Sivière

In the news

Automation, Capacity, truck

Partnership to address flatbed capacity challenges

Loadsmart and The Home Depot have teamed up to help shippers find flatbed capacity

Hazardous Materials, Health & Safety, Ocean

No flames seen from containers on Zim Kingston

Some of the containers that caught fire on a cargo ship off Victoria contained hazardous materials, but air quality monitoring along the city’s waterfront had found no negative results,…

Electric vehicles, Material Handling, Mobile Powered Equipment

Combilift launches heavy-duty electric forktruck

More than 60 percent of the forktrucks the company makes now are electric, with three new electric models launching this year

Hazardous Materials, Health & Safety, Ocean

Crews hope to board burned ship off Victoria

An official with the Canadian Coast Guard says an opportunity is expected Monday evening for crews to board a container ship smouldering off the coast of Victoria

Products and Services

Electric vehicles, Material Handling, Mobile Powered Equipment

Electric walkie trucks

Yale Materials Handling Corporation has added three new electric hand trucks to its UX Series, the MP30UX and MPS30UX walkie pallet trucks and the MSL30WUX walkie stacker

Automation, Lifting Equipment

Automation-ready coil grabber

Airpes has led the collaborative design of a grab for handling steel or aluminum coils in semi- and fully-automated electric overhead traveling (EOT) crane applications

Covid-19, DC & Warehouse Operations, Health & Safety, Robotics

Disinfection robot

Kitchener, Ontario, Avidbots has launched a Disinfection Add-On for its autonomous floor-scrubbing robot, Neo

Cargo handling

Double decking systems

The LayerLok XP and AF are engineered for use in dry van and reefer applications, and the LayerLok SC is specifically designed for installation in shipping containers

From the print editions

Awards & Recognition

2021 Shippers Choice Awards

The 2021 Shipper’s Choice Awards are presented to the carriers who surpass the industry’s benchmarks of excellence according to our annual survey of transportation buyers

Port Operations

Laurentia project fails impact assessment

Officials with the Quebec Port Authority remain stunned by the federal government’s decision to scupper its project to build the Laurentia deep-water container terminal on the St. Lawrence River

Communications Technology

Chip shortage costing billions

Experts are warning that the shortage of semiconductor computer chips that has already hampered Canada’s post-Covid recovery will extend into 2023. Western governments are responding with investments to reduce dependence on East Asian providers.

Digitization

Digital preparedness key to crisis adaptation

New study shows how Covid has shaped approaches to digitization

Hydrogen to fuel aviation

Lufthansa Technik, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the Center for Applied Aeronautical Research (ZAL), and Hamburg Airport are pooling their expertise to investigate options for liquid hydrogen fuel for aircraft