GLDPartners News Blog
A New Air Cargo Business Model Paradigm? Atlas Air/FedEx Announcement
In our work, we are now beginning to see some clarity about how the evolving ecommerce business model is impacting air cargo and rapid delivery logistics. Increased volume for next-day and two-day deliveries is causing a fundamental change in some logistics patterns, and we see this trend growing. This is fast-moving and new paradigm is being developed, which is creating business opportunity around some airports that had been previously overlooked by the market, specifically in North America We see this phenomenon spreading to Europe as well, although the business model drivers there are about 2-3 years behind the US in many ways, in some cases even further behind.
Getting serious: Self-driving cars reach a fork in the road, automakers take different routes
Impact of rapid evolution in the world's most extensive manufacturing supply chain There is little doubt that we will exist in a state of subject immaturity for some time still while things sort out. The article [...]
Increasing Regional Competitiveness By Integrating Supply Chains
Increasing Regional Competitiveness by Integrating Supply Chains Marcus Williams of Automobile Logistics reports that Canada’s Ontario province and the State of Michigan have signed a pact to improve the integration of automotive supply chains. The [...]
Proactive Advocacy to Advance Infrastructure Innovation – Our View
There was a collective sigh of relief when President Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act last December. After all, it was the first comprehensive multi-year surface transportation reauthorization bill to pass Congress in ten years, and it contained a number of innovations and firsts that suggested the possibility of change from the policies of previous surface transportation measures. Other provisions of the act signaled the evolution of key elements of the previous surface transportation reauthorization, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21).
USDoT Unveils Build America Bureau
GLDPartners participates the opening of the new Build America Bureau at the U.S. Department of Transportation Yesterday on July 20th, I attended the opening of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s new Build America Bureau, the latest evolution in the Department’s efforts to streamline and simplify the approval and funding process for infrastructure projects, particularly freight projects with a high level of highway connectivity. This an important development as the federal government is focusing heavily on how to expedite the acceptance and approval of infrastructure projects.
Eric C. Peterson to Lead GLDPartners Policy & Public Funding Solutions Practice
Today, GLDPartners announced the creation of a new policy and public funding solutions practice with Eric Peterson, a Washington, D.C. policy veteran, as its lead.