Modern Shipper covers the gig economy, including same-day, on-demand, and last-mile delivery jobs and services. Readers will find current news on gig economy companies, gig economy workers, gig economy data and trends. In addition, Modern Shipper focuses on e-commerce, e-commerce platforms and companies, and e-commerce services and technologies.
As the holiday shopping season ramps up, direct-to-consumer brands need to maintain their digital presence to engage with customers.
FedEx is forecasting a 10% increase in package deliveries during the holiday shipping season.
The food delivery giant revealed this week that it’s been working on something big: DoorDash Labs, its robotics and automation arm.
Fleet management company Merchants Fleet has reserved 5,400 of the EV410, a small electric cargo and utility vehicle being developed by BrightDrop.
Cargo airlines and leasing companies are sucking up small and midsize freighters converted from passenger configuration. Here come the big boys.
Drones have suddenly been thrust into a crucial position in the humanitarian supply chain, and Elroy Air is the latest company to use drones to deliver aid.
AIT Worldwide is expanding its final-mile capabilities, acquiring New York-based Select Express & Logistics, adding 400 employees and 47 cross-dock facilities.
Ensuring load accuracy at the shipper facility is key to on-time delivery.
Heyday, which acquires and scales brands by leveraging Amazon Marketplace and a team of experts, just raised half a billion dollars.
Ree Automotive has unveiled a blank-canvas autonomous vehicle design to last-mile delivery operations.
Cainiao is becoming a bigger logistics giant than Amazon in cross-border trade.
The Bay Area-based unicorn is investing in repairing America’s broken food supply chain.
Pure-play e-commerce brands are often saddled with higher shipping costs, but Via.Delivery is hoping to change that by offering consumers the choice to have shipments sent to physical store locations.
We’re currently in the midst of the Uberization of everything, including … laundry? Meet SudShare, the company that washes, dries and folds on demand.
As e-commerce goods move through the supply chain, many hands touch the shipments. Shippers that take the right steps can gain a level of control over this process.
AskWaves: The behemoths ordinarily shouldn’t be concerned about a national delivery network forged out of the OnTrac-LaserShip merger. But these are not ordinary times.
DoorDash made a pair of big announcements late this week, upgrading its Self-Delivery service and adding same-day delivery from Dollar General.
The food tech unicorn has now made over 30 acquisitions since 2019, but its purchase of Oakwood Transportation has a slightly different flavor.
The purveyor of wild-caught seafood avoids the use of airfreight, and relies on barge, truckload and parcel to hit its tight delivery commitments.
After reaching unicorn status earlier this year, Misfits Market finally taps into the massive California market.
