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Amazon plans to retain its current mix of outsourced and in-house logistics operations – for now. But it will continue to invest in its own transport capabilities, to cater for growth.

The global Connected Logistics market was valued at $16,774 million (USD) in 2016, and is projected to reach at $ 27,722 million (USD) by 2023, growing at a CAGR of 7.60% from 2017 to 2023.

A Cainiao employee revealed that Zhang Chunhui, former president at Alibaba’s YunOS, was recently appointed to head Cainiao ET lab

The voice-enabled technology, available next month, is part of a digital renaissance underway in the old-school trucking industry

The technology is gaining considerable interest due to it offering a secure, immutable and tamper-proof distributed ledger.

The rise of e-commerce has also led to significantly more demand for timely and reliable logistics and distribution services.

Georgia’s Atlanta logistics and warehousing industry is poised for growth, but in order to expand, it has to attract a steady stream of new workers — both to replace a baby boom generation on the verge of retirement and to fill new kinds of jobs, “Bizjournals” reports.

India has largely been an ‘importer’ of global best practices. It is now set to ‘export’ a couple of cool business tricks that Amazon has perfected locally. Both India-first successful initiatives the Seattle behemoth is shipping overseas are in the logistics domain.