Freight management startup GoodShip raises $25 million to overhaul shipping with AI. Read the pitch deck.

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
GoodShip founders David Tsai and Ryan Roskin, standing on the street and wearing zip-up hoodies with the company's logo.
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Nick Hanyok

Alphabet spins off Chorus, its moonshot bet on solving supply chain headaches

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Technology
Photo of ships and shipping containers
Chorus has built tech to help companies track their goods in the supply chain.

Alphabet

This is how badly the port strike could wreck the US economy

Tech Insider : Economy
Striking dockworkers in Baltimore hold up signs
Dockworkers at the Port of Baltimore are part of a port strike extending from Maine to Texas.

Stephanie Scarbrough/Associated Press

Walmart sees a bonkers improvement when it automates a warehouse

Tech Insider
Walmart trucks sit parked in front of a Walmart store in Richmond, California
An automated distribution center delivers twice the throughput with half the staff, Walmart's CFO said.

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Moscow's ties to Beijing are paying off as Russian firms flourish amid lucrative deals with China

Tech Insider : Economy
Russia China summit
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin meets with China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 24, 2023.

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Warehouse logistics systems find efficiency and productivity benefits in lightweight augmented-reality headsets

Tech Insider : Technology
A warehouse worker uses the Vuzix M400 wearable AR headset while grabbing a package.

Vuzix

Supply chains may be moving out of China and into Asia — but they aren't really decoupling from the country

Tech Insider : Economy
A worker assembles a motorbike at the Northstar Precision Vietnam factory in Vinh Phuc province.
A worker assembles a motorbike in Vietnam.

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Recruiters say Flexport CEO's decision to rescind dozens of job offers days before some were due to start is 'sick' and 'lousy'

Tech Insider
Ryan Petersen and Dave Clark will share the CEO position at Flexport until March.
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen.

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A 57-year-old UPS driver in Texas died after collapsing in the heat while making deliveries

Tech Insider
UPS driver stands behind his truck with packages on a dolly.
UPS-worker Christopher Begley, not pictured here, died after being exposed to extreme heat, local news station WFAA reported.

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Scorching temperatures are making delivery a dangerous job — and it's only getting worse

Tech Insider
A delivery man stands in the sweltering heat, delivering packages in a hostile neighborhood.
Amazon, FedEx, UPS, and USPS make millions of deliveries every day. Heat waves make the jobs behind those deliveries more dangerous.

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