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Technology

Grace Sharkey Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Flock Freight’s shared truckload model hauls in $60M Series E

Flock Freight is positioning itself not as a competitor to procurement platforms, but as a specialized supplier that can solve a problem they cannot.

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A brown UPS delivery van on a Boston city street.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Parcel Shipping

UPS to eliminate 20K jobs as Amazon decoupling accelerates

Last Mile Delivery

Parcel Freight

Eric Kulisch Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Amazon taps FedEx for big-and-bulky residential deliveries

Amazon will outsource delivery of large packages to FedEx in a deal that should prove more profitable on a per-shipment level than shipments under the companies’ partnership that ended six years ago.

Parcel Freight

Eric Kulisch Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Trump supports FedEx official for Postal Service chief, report says

The U.S. Postal Service board of governors is set to vote soon on a FedEx official to lead the agency, according to a newspaper report.

News

Eric Kulisch Monday, May 5, 2025

Analyst: Amazon’s $4B rural delivery investment aimed at slowing Walmart

Amazon is investing heavily in rural last-mile delivery as a hedge against Walmart, a prominent analyst says.

Last-Mile Delivery

Eric Kulisch Thursday, April 17, 2025

UPS white paper casts shade on e-commerce gig delivery providers

A UPS white paper promotes the benefits of traditional express carriers over gig logistics providers, but the TD Cowen/AFS Logistics Freight Index shows why businesses might like the lower prices from newer last-mile providers.

Parcel Shipping

Eric Kulisch Thursday, April 10, 2025

FedEx, UPS lose parcel market share to big retailers, smaller couriers

U.S. parcel volumes hit a record in 2024, but new competitors like Amazon, Walmart and OnTrac are eroding the market share of FedEx and UPS, a new report says.

Drones

Jack Daleo Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Zipline drone delivery takes flight in Texas with Walmart – for free

A long-promised service has launched out of a Walmart Supercenter in Mesquite, Texas: Zipline drone delivery.

eCommerce

Parcel Freight

Eric Kulisch Wednesday, May 14, 2025

DHL eCommerce to merge with UK courier Evri

DHL continues to ramp up investment in the e-commerce space with a large stake in U.K.-based parcel delivery company Evri.

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Close up of an IDS Fulfillment warehouse.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

E-commerce & Fulfillment

DHL acquires US e-commerce logistics business IDS Fulfillment

Light-blue Prime Air cargo jet with dark-blue tail and Amazon logo on a taxiway.
A mustard-yellow DHL cargo jet is loaded with a yellow shipping container.

Fulfillment

Technology

Grace Sharkey Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Stord acquires ProPack Logistics, expands North American footprint

Stord’s purchase of ProPack Logistics grows the company’s fulfillment centers to 1.6 million square feet.

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Chinese trade flow into Mexico is helping to build up the latter’s manufacturing capabilities, which is a long-term positive for the U.S.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

American Shipper

How China skirts tariffs into the US

supply chain shortages
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Global Supply Chain

We’re still at risk for another ‘everything shortage’

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Logistics/Supply Chains

Scaling strategically with shared warehousing and fulfillment

Monday, October 16, 2023

Logistics/Supply Chains

Increasing velocity to market with micro-fulfillment

Drones

Gig Workers