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5) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen:
Overnight shipping is an absolute masterpiece of logistics that happens every single night. It may not be cheap but you can get a package shipped from Miami, Florida on a Monday to Anchorage, Alaska by 8:30 am on Tuesday. In fact you can even ship a package for example from Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday and have the package arrived in Anchorage, Alaska by 9:00 am on Wednesday.
The speed and efficiency of these worldwide delivery networks is _______ ___________ and it all happens while we sleep.
The three major consumer _____________ companies are FedEx, DHL and UPS and each of them as impressive as the last. FedEx has more planes than Emirates, Etihad and Qatar ___________. DHL delivers to every country in the world including North Korea and UPS flies to more than double as many destinations as the largest passenger airline.
Each has a global network that allows for lightning fast shipping at relatively low prices. Behind all this speed are ____________ air networks that connect the entire world daily. Each these three operates hundreds of flights nightly. But FedEx is the best example since their operations make them the largest cargo airline in the world.
They have 650 planes flying to 400 destinations carrying 6 million packages every single day and the vast majority of these flights operate to or from one of their hub airports.
FedEx’s hub airports are spread out all across the world and serve as _____________ points where packages are transferred to one plane to another. They have hubs in Singapore, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Seoul, Osaka, Anchorage, Oakland, Dallas, Indianapolis, Greensboro, Miami, Newark, Toronto, Paris, Cologne, Milan and Dubai. But the most important have a law is the one in Memphis, Tennessee. Because that is the super hub. Memphis is not a huge city; only about 650,000 people live there. But the reason FedEx center’s worldwide operations in this city is because of its location. Memphis is not actually in the geographically center of the US as might make sense, but it is central.
You see only about 200 miles away in Ray County Missouri is the mean population center of the US. This is the average location of every resident in the US, meaning that the FedEx Superhub in Memphis is the best location to ___________ the most people in the shortest amount of time.
FedEx operations in Memphis, meanwhile, make this airport the second busiest cargo airport in the world above those enormous cities like Tokyo, Paris, Dubai, Shanghai and _________ ________ only to Hong Kong.
How the FedEx Superhub really works is that every night about 150 planes fly in from all around the world between the hours of 10:00 pm and 01:00 pm. Immediately, upon arrival the planes are unloaded and their packages are put into the hubs automated _________ system. Within only 15 minutes each packages arises at the staging area for its next flight where it is loaded into containers.
Planes therefore can start taking off again at 2:00 am and continue to until 4:00 am, which means that everywhere in the US can have a FedEx plane arriving by 6:00 am. Packages are transferred from planes to small planes to trucks to reach their destinations as fast as possible.
Now it is important to note that not every FedEx package ________ ___________ Memphis. That would be incredible inefficiently if a customer wanted to, for example ship a package from Phoenix, Arizona to Seattle, Washington. Only 1100 miles separates Seattle from Phoenix, a routing through Memphis with total over 3000 miles in six hours inflight. The package would still make it overnight, but FedEx would be wasting _________ carrying that package an extra 1900 miles. So that’s why they secondary hubs. In this case, FedEx Oakland hub has flights to both Phoenix and Seattle to the package would take a relatively efficient 1300 miles routing.
Memphis essentially serves as the backup hub in case there’s not a more efficient routing. The secondary hubs, such as Oakland in general have flights to destinations that are already ______________ by flights to Memphis. But the destinations from Oakland are high demand destinations that ship enough packages sole to US coast to fill entire planes to Oakland.
FedEx, UPS and DHL meanwhile are continuously focusing on further increasing the efficiency of their networks since in this business more than any, time is money.
5) Fill in the blanks based on what you listen:
Overnight shipping is an absolute masterpiece of logistics that happens every single night. It may not be cheap but you can get a package shipped from Miami, Florida on a Monday to Anchorage, Alaska by 8:30 am on Tuesday. In fact you can even ship a package for example from Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday and have the package arrived in Anchorage, Alaska by 9:00 am on Wednesday.
The speed and efficiency of these worldwide delivery networks is _______ ___________ and it all happens while we sleep.
The three major consumer _____________ companies are FedEx, DHL and UPS and each of them as impressive as the last. FedEx has more planes than Emirates, Etihad and Qatar ___________. DHL delivers to every country in the world including North Korea and UPS flies to more than double as many destinations as the largest passenger airline.
Each has a global network that allows for lightning fast shipping at relatively low prices. Behind all this speed are ____________ air networks that connect the entire world daily. Each these three operates hundreds of flights nightly. But FedEx is the best example since their operations make them the largest cargo airline in the world.
They have 650 planes flying to 400 destinations carrying 6 million packages every single day and the vast majority of these flights operate to or from one of their hub airports.
FedEx’s hub airports are spread out all across the world and serve as _____________ points where packages are transferred to one plane to another. They have hubs in Singapore, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Seoul, Osaka, Anchorage, Oakland, Dallas, Indianapolis, Greensboro, Miami, Newark, Toronto, Paris, Cologne, Milan and Dubai. But the most important have a law is the one in Memphis, Tennessee. Because that is the super hub. Memphis is not a huge city; only about 650,000 people live there. But the reason FedEx center’s worldwide operations in this city is because of its location. Memphis is not actually in the geographically center of the US as might make sense, but it is central.
You see only about 200 miles away in Ray County Missouri is the mean population center of the US. This is the average location of every resident in the US, meaning that the FedEx Superhub in Memphis is the best location to ___________ the most people in the shortest amount of time.
FedEx operations in Memphis, meanwhile, make this airport the second busiest cargo airport in the world above those enormous cities like Tokyo, Paris, Dubai, Shanghai and _________ ________ only to Hong Kong.
How the FedEx Superhub really works is that every night about 150 planes fly in from all around the world between the hours of 10:00 pm and 01:00 pm. Immediately, upon arrival the planes are unloaded and their packages are put into the hubs automated _________ system. Within only 15 minutes each packages arises at the staging area for its next flight where it is loaded into containers.
Planes therefore can start taking off again at 2:00 am and continue to until 4:00 am, which means that everywhere in the US can have a FedEx plane arriving by 6:00 am. Packages are transferred from planes to small planes to trucks to reach their destinations as fast as possible.
Now it is important to note that not every FedEx package ________ ___________ Memphis. That would be incredible inefficiently if a customer wanted to, for example ship a package from Phoenix, Arizona to Seattle, Washington. Only 1100 miles separates Seattle from Phoenix, a routing through Memphis with total over 3000 miles in six hours inflight. The package would still make it overnight, but FedEx would be wasting _________ carrying that package an extra 1900 miles. So that’s why they secondary hubs. In this case, FedEx Oakland hub has flights to both Phoenix and Seattle to the package would take a relatively efficient 1300 miles routing.
Memphis essentially serves as the backup hub in case there’s not a more efficient routing. The secondary hubs, such as Oakland in general have flights to destinations that are already ______________ by flights to Memphis. But the destinations from Oakland are high demand destinations that ship enough packages sole to US coast to fill entire planes to Oakland.
FedEx, UPS and DHL meanwhile are continuously focusing on further increasing the efficiency of their networks since in this business more than any, time is money.
