For the past seven years, Carlo K. Nizam has been the head of Airbus Group's Value Chain Visibility and RFID program. He has led the effort to use radio frequency identification, as well as what the company refers to as "Intranet of Things" technologies, to track aircraft parts, logistics containers, tools, jigs, subassemblies and other critical assets.

A group of very important guests were transported on flight QR 8197 from Amsterdam-Schiphol to Las Vegas via Qatar Airways this past April. A 777-200 freighter was reserved for just 40 well-pampered passengers from 17 different countries, who flew "first class," so to speak, on the 11-hour, 20-minute flight. The combined net worth of these clients was about $160m. As rich as they were, they did little more on the flight than eat and sleep, with an inflight dining menu of 120 pre-packed haynets, water, oat bran for mash, mixed feed, apples and carrots.

Uber and its rivals have transformed the world of personal transportation. Now the concept is beginning to have an impact on the delivery of product ordered over the internet. Lior Sion, chief technology officer of Bringg, traces the progress of the trend.

Automated locker technology is becoming a key aspect of the "click-and-collect" trend in e-commerce retailing. Kent Savage, chief executive officer with Apex Supply Chain Technologies, explains why the concept's time has come.

Matson Inc. has completed its acquisition of Horizon Lines Inc.