Last-Mile Delivery

JAXPORT is there to help as consumers shift from a shop-till-you-drop mentality to a shop-till-it-drops reality.

Anxious shippers look to regionals after being kicked to the curb by the big boys.

Shares of J.B. Hunt Transport Services move 9% lower after the company fails to meet recently raised analyst expectations. Intermodal service headwinds and elevated costs were the culprits.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services misses 3Q estimates by 9 cents per share. Revenue and operating income climb 5% but a variety of cost inflation and a tough truck brokerage market weigh on the quarter.

While COVID-19 helped increase e-commerce sales volumes, retailers struggle to manage lengthening holiday season lead times.

Austin-based FloorFound manages the return process of furniture, appliances and other oversize items.

A UPS expansion will create nearly 600 jobs and add $1.4 billion to North Carolina’s economy over 12 years.

A different future for The Apple Store?

Increased e-commerce sales are driving the need for additional industrial warehouse space for retailers and shipping companies.

Shippers to be hit with $40 billion in worldwide peak surcharges, firm says.

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) vs. Walmart (NYSE: WMT)? That one-on-one skirmish is old news. As COVID-19 reshapes the American shopper, money is pouring into a cluster of new and existing grocery delivery platforms. The latest: Grocery service Instacart said in a blog post Thursday it raised $200 million in new financing. The deal values Instacart at […]

The coronavirus pandemic continues to amplify that pressure as 2020 drags on.

Container chassis management model in the U.S. challenges advancement of full-circle tracking technologies.

Ryder and ABB executives explore why the adoption of electric vehicles is coming first to the last mile during FreightWaves’ Last Mile Logistics Summit.

As e-commerce sales are projected to hit over $709 billion in the U.S. in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, logistics companies are focused on last-mile delivery and improving customers’ experience.

A grocery supply chain expert told the FreightWaves Last Mile Logistics Summit that grocery stories are not feeding the Canadian appetite for online shopping.

Point Pickup’s CEO, Tom Fiorita, goes to considerable lengths to distinguish the final-mile delivery company from Silicon Valley tech platforms. “We’re an East Coast firm — I wouldn’t call us a Palo Alto type of an organization,” said Fiorita of the Connecticut-based startup.  Nor does Point Pickup “just build technology,” he said, “and hope that […]

The Reverse Logistics Association’s Tony Sciarrotta and DM Transportation’s Nicholas Isasi discuss the importance of a good merchandise returns process at the FreightWaves Last Mile Logistics Summit.

Kenco’s Jason Neal explains at the FreightWaves Last Mile Logistics Summit how this service requires drivers to also be resilient customer service representatives.

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission wants to learn the extent of allegations that ocean carriers are targeting noncontracted service providers for freight payment.