How Courier Delivery Services Are Revolutionizing E-commerce Businesses in Canada

by admin on June 29, 2023

Perhaps one of the most important changes that have happened in the world of business in the past few years is the emergence of e-commerce and online for doing business in every aspect. Since Covid, businesses have scrambled to get on-line! They are working to improve their websites and to allow people to be able to buy from them on-line. This has led to a need for delivery services that can cover the needs of this new online economy because as companies took online orders, they have a need to delivery those orders to customers in a timely and efficient manner.  

New Age of Last Mile Delivery  

That is where the new age of courier delivery services came in to provide the necessary deliveries. Companies such as amazon already had a strong infrastructure in place to delivery their products to customers in as little as one day. But what about the rest? Walmart for example has really started to to focus on on-line marketing and deliveries and have also put in place a system for delivering to customer’s home in a short amount of time.  

The Delivery Fleet 

Performing such an action as delivering a package from the warehouse to a customer in less than 1 day is no easy feat! In fact, it takes a lot of technology, plenty of trucks on the road and efficient knowledgeable drivers! The availability of truck is another question mark. Amazon have recently invested in Rivian to supply them with a fleet of electric delivery trucks specifically designed for last-mile delivery. Using gas trucks for delivering products works, but produces lots of greenhouse gases since these trucks are on the road everyday making deliveries.  

The Challenge of Delivering to Canadian Provinces 

It is a challenge for most of these companies, how to buy and manage a fleet of delivery trucks that is large enough to cover every area of the vast areas of Canada. Rural areas in particular present a challenge because they are not as easily accessible. For example, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Quebec and Northern Ontario are all areas that are difficult to deliver to. A customer who lives in one of these areas can expect to wait for up to two weeks for the product that they ordered to arrive! 

Delivering in Southern Ontario & Toronto 

In contrast, however, are areas such as the Greater Toronto Area. This area is well served by a number of carriers who can provide product deliveries in as little as 1 day. The type of service that is expected in Toronto is about the same that can be expected in large American cities, which is one day for most orders. Packages and parcels or average size can sometimes be delivered in even less time. Recently, the speed of delivery has even improved further, Evklogistics.ca can deliver packages in 100 minutes or less! A number of courier companies operate in the area that provide reliable services and allow for quick and easy delivery for on-line purchases, whether they are food, merchandise, or packages. 

Challenges in the Industry 

There has a variety of recent challenges however. One of these is managing the sometimes very large number of packages and orders that need to be delivered every single day. For that, many courier companies have turned to technology. Many of them have turned to real-time apps that can track drivers and help ensure that each package is labeled properly so that it gets to its destination on-time and more importantly, that it gets to the correct address! Another challenge is government regulation, because as delivery vehicles crowd the roads, governments are trying to do what they can to keep a lid on the congestion.

As we move forward with the emergence of technology, social media and people become even more dependent on online services to perform their every day tasks, it is imperative that courier companies adapt so they can provide the type of coverage and deliveries that Canadians expect across all the provinces. 

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How Aluminum Manufacturing is Shaping the Transportation Industry

by admin on September 11, 2017

The effect of the latest advances in the aluminum extrusion and manufacturing world has had a tremendous impact on the transportation industry along with everything that is associated with it. Let’s consider some of these effects and how they are bound to change the landscape of the world in the coming years and decades.

aluminum extrusions & manufacturing

For starters, the most in-demand products tend to be aluminum profiles and aluminium extruded products that are used in the manufacturing of airplanes and automobiles. However, these are not the complete picture. In fact, other small items such as bicycles, skateboards, and hoverboards are nowadays using aluminum more than ever. These smaller items are bound to form a bigger part of the industry in the coming years. Indeed, nowadays, the large manufactured goods such as cars are no longer the majority of the market for manufacturing aluminum. Other small things are playing a bigger role.

Hover Boards

So how are these other more trivial things affecting transportation and the way that people move in the twenty-first century? That is a great question that we ought to look at in detail. The advent of hover boards is allowing people to use these small gliding machines to travel from one place to another in a seamless and effortless manner. More city driving will be replaced with some of these technologies over the new few years. People want a transportation method that is useful, light and easy, and hover boards are one of the easiest ways to travel to a destination that is within a few km with ease.

Big Travel

Airplanes will always be the main method of travel for larger distances. And the use of aluminum fabrication and extrusion profiles in the aerospace industry is will-documented. However, there is a recent trend in the industry towards smaller lighter and more fuel efficient places. These planes come from companies such as Bombardier in Canada, and they are producing more and more of them.

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The use of these smaller jet planes is also quite popular for executive travel. In fact, more rich people are buying their planes nowadays than at any other point in the past. Planes such as the Bombardier Learjet 75 is one of the most popular ones on the market. These planes rely to a very large degree on aluminium extruders to produce the light, strong metal that makes us the core of the plane. In Canada, Signature Aluminium extrusion company has been one of the leaders in providing the extrusion profiles and the necessary fabrication and manufacturing processes to meet such a demand. Furthermore, the cost of the aluminum shapes such as the aluminum t slot is excellent for the use in these airplanes and the aerospace industry as a whole. That makes the companies that perform extrusion of aluminum one of the key players in the performance and success of this transportation segment.

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How much does Canada spend on healthcare?

by admin on June 16, 2017

family doctor teamThe Canadian healthcare system has been at the forefront of many discussions over the past decade. Government officials on the federal and provincial level, including health Canada, have been hard at work discussing and trying to figure out how to keep health spending under control. In fact, health spending has been going up over the past twenty years.  So should the government of Canada and the cities at the individual level deal with this? First, let us examine the causes of the increase in spending.

Advances in Medicine

One of the most important causes for the increase in healthcare spending is the advances in medicine that we have seen over the past few years and decades. Diseases and conditions that were untreatable in the past are now curable. And that comes with a cost. So the government of Canada, Ontario and even at the city level in places such as Brampton, are forking out more money to treat diseases that would not have been treatable twenty years ago. All that adds to the costs of running the health care system.

Shortage of Family Doctors

There has been a shortage of doctors and physicians, especially in the more populous provinces such as Ontario and Quebec. There have been efforts to lure foreign trained doctors, and that has helped increase the supply. However, there is still a shortage especially in the family physician and walk-in clinic area. That lead to the existing doctors to ask for more increases in their pay, and the government is the one who pays the bills.

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WalkIn Clinics

People nowadays demand convenience more than at any other time in history. That has lead to the increase in popularity of the walk in clinic! In fact, more people today are seeing a doctor at a walkin clinic than at the traditional clinics of the past. All this means that there are additional resources and places that should be funded by the government. One of my friends recently wanted to see a doctor and when trying to book an appointment was told she has to wait for two weeks. Therefore, instead of waiting she visited old town health centre and was able to see a doctor immediately.

Aging of the Population

As the population ages, the health demands of that population as an increase. That is something that is seen not only in Canada but also in many countries around the world.

Health Spending

In 2016 Canada spent in excess of $211 billion on the health care and medical system. That seems like a huger number, however when you compare it with other countries, and with the high quality of health and medical services that are provided, it seems that the number is well worth it.

It remains to be clear whether governments can reel in that spending and keep a cap on it. There are measures and ideas currently being discussed to examine these actions.

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Importance of Scientific Research within The Transportation Industry

by admin on April 18, 2017

When it comes to improving the society that we live in, nothing ever comes close to the role of scientific research. In fact, technology and scientific advances have been at the forefront of improving people’s lives for decades and centuries.
We live in a world today where we can fly in airplanes, rent limousines and live in air-conditioned homes because of the people who came before us. Those people improved technology and manufacturing to the point where we can have cars made of aluminum, and fly in airplanes that are very technically advanced.

Regardless of where we are in the cycle of advancements, one thing is clear; we must continue to improve our scientific methods by investing in education and manufacturing. For example, aluminum extrusion has been one of these processes that have seen tremendous improvements over the past few decades. It has seen similar improvements to those of steel manufacturing in the nineteenth century.

What effect does this have on our lives today? It has a huge effect. It allows us to be able to travel in lighter cars that can even run on electric power. It also gives us an electric grid that transports electricity right to our home where we can use it to run our dishwasher, iron our clothes and do a host of other things that we take for granted on a daily basis.

As the world works on improving productivity and luxury, it is important to note the role of scientific advancements in making the life that we live today as comfortable and as luxurious as possible. Only a few decades ago, automobiles were invented. Today, we have the luxury of renting limousines to take us to our destination in style. That trend is bound to continue and to improve the level of lifestyle that people enjoy in the years to come.

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Welcome to the CGU Home Page!

by admin on April 18, 2017

The CGU fosters communication through its annual scientific meeting, sponsorship of a Distinguished Lecturer and its bi-annual newsletter, Elements. The CGU recognizes outstanding contributions to the geophysical sciences by awarding the J. Tuzo Wilson medal annually. Student participation in the scientific meeting is especially encouraged through student travel assistance and prizes for best student paper in various categories. The CGU nominates Canadian representatives for the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and affiliated societies, and provides its members with reduced rates for journals published by the American Geophysical Union and European Geosciences Union.

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