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Image via Flickr by Curimedia | P H O T O G R A P H Y On March 17, Jet Airways announced that they will start operating dedicated freight planes instead of passenger-only planes. As long as the company gets regulatory approval, the first freight planes will begin operations in April 2015. Jet Airways…
Image via Flickr by bukrie Several companies, including Amazon, want to use commercial drones, but there have been too many restrictions to make it a reality. These drones could change the farming, military, transportation, logistics, and public safety industries. That’s why the government has decided to lift some restrictions on commercial drones and create regulations…
Image via Flickr by swanksalot As part of a government program headed by the Department of Defense, Chicago landed a hub for a digital manufacturing institute named the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute. The Department of Defense kicked in $70 million for the project, and the state, industries, academic community, and community supporters contributed…
Image via Flickr by zackzen Every day the Baltic Exchange in London releases the Baltic Dry Index, which tracks the prices of shipping bulk freight. This week, prices are up 14 percent over last week, and have reached the highest level of the current year. Though most company representatives only agreed to speak with reporters…
Image via Flickr by KOREA.NET – Official page of the Republic of Korea Bad news for Russia all around as Standard & Poor’s downgrades the country’s credit rating to near junk. The Russian economy has not been growing at a rate that would suggest the country will dust itself off from the rating anytime soon.Oops!…
Image via Flickr by lyng883 As construction resumes on the Panama Canal expansion, ports along the east coast rush to complete projects that would allow the humongous cargo ships of the P3 and G6 alliances to use their ports. So far, only the Port of Baltimore and the Port of Virginia in Norfolk can accommodate…