Auto manufacturers invest in a carless future
Auto manufacturers remain a proponent of autonomy, even if what they’re manufacturing are varieties of electric scooters and bikes.
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Final mile (also called “last mile”) is a term used to refer to the last leg of a delivery route (it is not a mode of transportation). Businesses can define last mile in different ways, depending on what is most relevant to their business and their customers’ expectations. Final mile delivery falls into two categories: light goods (typically less than 150 pounds) and heavy goods.
Auto manufacturers remain a proponent of autonomy, even if what they’re manufacturing are varieties of electric scooters and bikes.
With enough investor capital and vision, profit might not matter as much as analysts think.
Retailers of heavy goods like furniture face the same e-commerce delivery pressures as retailers shipping parcels, survey finds
Analysts and investors wait to hear about Amazon’s expanded presence in Southeast Asia and on-demand services.
Last-mile movement is one of the least energy-efficient operations within supply chains, and efforts need to be taken to consciously reduce energy expended in that stretch.
Atlas Air and its pilots union continue take hard lines in wake of arbritrator’s award that a contract settlement be arbitrated
A new study finds that e-scooters’ environmental footprint surpasses that of the transportation they are positioned to replace.
Australia Post, a government-owned post and freight service, has reported revenues of just under A$7 billion but has experienced a massive fall in profits.
Arbritrator’s award denies Atlas Air’s pilots’ request to negotiate a contract and instead imposes an arbitrated settlement on both sides
FedEx Freight expands its last-mile delivery network to 19 US markets
Rapidly changing consumption patterns and increasing traffic bottlenecks in urban environs necessitate the evolution of transportation and its underlying business models to create a sustainable logistics future.
Lime moves ahead with the backing of venture capital and hopes that car-reliant metropolitan areas like San Antonio will embrace a cleaner, more communal way to navigate city life.
Amazon, following a model in the U.S., will take an equity stake in Canadian cargo airlines Cargojet.
Company claims faster medical deliveries means faster patient treatment.
ATSG and Atlas Air continue to fight a contract battle with their pilots union as Amazon, which uses both airlines, watches closely with peak season approaching
With the recent complaints about workers’ rights, it makes sense that Doordash, like every other on-demand mobility company, is thinking about efficiency and the cost of human labor.
“Robotic process automation has already taken root in other industries like financial services. It’s a perfect time for RPA to disrupt the logistics industry, given the amount of paperwork, documentation and around-the-clock customer interaction that global transportation requires,” says Mike Motsick, CEO of RPA Labs.
Integrated bulk, rail, trucking, box, warehousing and ports operator, Qube (ASX: QUB), has announced weighty full year earnings of A$1.73 billion (US$1.5 billion). It also made net profit after tax of 15. 4 percent to A$123.2 million. But it sees a subdued economy ahead…
A new partnership between Xcel Energy and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) allows drones to inspect power lines out of human sight in eight states – Colorado, Michigan, MInnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin.
WiseTech (ASX:WTC), a global provider of advanced logistics software, has reported a whopping 57 percent growth in revenues and a massive 37 percent net profit after tax for its full 2018-2019 financial year. Revenues generated in the last financial year stood at A$348.3 million and net profits were $54.1 million.