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.
Two leading drone associations agree with the NTSB regarding investigation of drone accidents, but they differ on what should trigger those investigations.
Instacart will begin building microfulfillment centers with Fabric robotics to speed order picking in partnership with retailers.
Fusion Logistics says layoffs were caused by a large increase in insurance premiums.
E-commerce shipping company Sendle has reached a deal with GLS to handle last-mile shipments for its e-commerce customers in the Western U.S.
Fetch Package has created a last-mile logistics solution to optimize deliveries to multifamily housing communities, eliminating the need for updated package rooms or lockers and increased staff to handle incoming traffic.
Lyft riders in Miami will be able to choose a self-driving car later this year through an agreement with Ford and autonomous-tech company Argo AI.
Fillogic’s microdistribution hubs are helping to rescue struggling mall owners.
Less than six months after announcing a $43 million funding round, headless commerce platform Fabric has announced a $100 million Series B round.
JOKR, a 15-minute delivery platform that launched in New York last month and currently is in 10 cities globally, has raised $170 million in a Series A funding round.
Even as in-store retail sales return, e-commerce continues to grow, showing that 2020’s pandemic-induced spending spree was not a blip, but just a beginning.
The Black Swan drones from Dronamics won’t be carrying little packages to someone’s doorsteps. They’re heavy-lift vehicles and DHL wants to flood Europe’s skies with them.
Uber will partner with national grocer Albertsons and 1,200 of its stores.
Direct-to-consumer cannabis is slowly but surely making its way outside of California.
California’s largest vertically integrated cannabis company now serves 60% of the state’s households.
Cleveron has developed a driving test to certify operators of remotely controlled last-mile delivery vehicles.
UP Partners is looking for transformative technology companies that will underpin a society dominated by unmanned aircraft.
Even though there is no indication Tesla is interested in eVTOLs at this time, Morgan Stanley says the company will eventually offer services related to urban air mobility.
“We will learn how our customers use the product, learn their pain points and inject those solutions into the product as we go, really changing the user experience.”
The United States’ resident delivery colossus could unveil a game-changing last-mile solution.
The head of a key trucking group says the net impact of all the changes is a “chilling effect” on the use of independent contractors.
