Last-Mile Delivery

EPS reported above analysts’ consensus.

The pandemic has accelerated deployment of delivery robots, but questions about performance and business case remain.

Pop-up DCs expected to handle 30% of Walmart’s U.S. peak-season volumes.

Package revenue surpasses first-class mail revenue for first full-year period in history.

More than 200 breeder hogs were flown this week from St. Louis to Sao Paulo. Midwestern airport hopes it is the beginning of more livestock exports.

E-commerce fulfillment provider Transportation and Logistics Systems announces plans to acquire delivery and warehousing company Cougar Express.

“Key by Amazon” is now available in 4,000 U.S. cities; the company has added in-garage grocery deliveries.

FedEx Express will hire more than 6,500 employees across Mexico by the end of the year.

Annual outlook forecasts an extension of decade-long bull-market.

European 3PL says integration with e-commerce marketplaces strengthens activity with American online retailers and shoppers.

Freight forwarder guides customers through online shopping shift and transport capacity choke points.

Gains come as the shipping giant braces for peak-season impact.

Management from J.B. Hunt sees the current inventory replenishment cycle sustaining a high freight demand environment through the first quarter of 2021.

Self-driving vehicle company Nuro has raised a $500 million Series C round of funding, as autonomous delivery continues to pick up new markets. The raise, announced on Monday, was led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, with participation from new investors including Fidelity Management & Research Co. LLC and Baillie Gifford. […]

Initiative designed to leverage USPS’ network to provide peak-season relief for desperate parcel shippers.

XPO is `very comfortable with where we are’ heading into 2021, Jacobs says.

Executives from Horizon Fitness, Estes Forwarding Worldwide and The DDC Group talk during FreightWaves LIVE @HOME about keeping up with the trend of online ordering and home delivery.

Business “rebounded dramatically” in the quarter, Jacobs says.

Shipwell CEO Greg Price explains during FreightTech Venture Summit the importance of winning over venture capitalists at the onset of presenting your idea.

Start small and simple, VC experts say.

A survey of supply chain executives shows transportation capacity declines at a slower pace in October. The logistics industry continues to experience “rapid” growth.

A half-dozen basic tips on what drayage truck drivers must consider when picking up a container chassis from a pool.

Rate increases, which apply to ground, air and international services, take effect Dec. 27.

DispatchTrack optimizes routes and delivery schedules for its clients, which enhances their customer delivery experience.

Several key metrics in LTL operations show downturn from last year

Envase Technologies platform will expand its presence in Canada with the acquisition of TMS provider Tailwind Transportation Software.

Onfleet​, a San Francisco-based provider of delivery management software, announced on Friday it has raised $14 million in Series A.

Olsavsky says transport spending is in a multiyear ramp-up as the company posts solid third-quarter results.

“Efficient and safe delivery of COVID-19 vaccines around the world is the most urgent logistics challenge we face today.”

Seven questions for TrophySmack’s Matt Walsh about having a diversified fulfillment strategy.

State’s suit to compel adherence to the law gets a boost; expensive campaign to allow ride-share drivers to remain independent contractors heads toward the finish line

Valuations are high and going higher heading into 2021, experts say at Armstrong conference.

Outsourced supply chain solutions provider Capstone Logistics has been acquired by former owner H.I.G. Capital.

Forward Air sees 60 cents per share in the third quarter. The earnings pre-announcement comes in significantly higher than analysts’ current forecasts.

Larkin of Clarendon sees record year ahead if things break right.

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.

Fleet Enable by Imaginnovate is designed to optimize the difficult logistics of last-mile delivery.

A strange situation: Its competitors are also its customers and can plead with government officials to stop the USPS from taking actions it wants to implement

Kirby Fine, principal, ATL Partners, and Gordon Branov, CEO of Pilot Freight Services, talk about trends in the last-mile heavy-duty bulky market during the FreightWaves Last Mile Logistics Summit.

Large-format home deliveries to become most critical part of supply chain, Nick Hobbs says during FreightWaves Last Mile Logistics Summit.

A “dance floor” inside the driver’s cabin for easy movement.  Exterior cameras linked to a digital display inside the cabin, giving the driver a 360-degree view outside the vehicle. Those are just two of the features in Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) highly anticipated new custom electric delivery van designed and built in partnership with electric vehicle […]

FreightWaves market expert and analyst Zach Strickland talked with Karen Tyndall, GlobalTranz director of customer solutions, during FreightWaves’ Last Mile Logistics Summit on Thursday.

U.S. Federal Maritime Commission steps forward with notice of inquiry to evaluate alleged ocean carrier abuse of “merchant” definition for bill of lading responsibility.

Shipping, logistics giant expects very strong peak season.

Drayage truckers on the Envase platform have access to an online marketplace that connects them to available parking and storage lots nationwide.

The Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference insists the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission has jurisdiction to ensure that ocean container chassis provisioning is conducted fairly.

Forward Air announces another acquisition as it advances its no-wait growth plan. The Greeneville, Tennessee-based trucking company adds intermodal drayage provider Value Logistics to its roster.

Talk of a European supply chain unit sale may put XPO’s Jacobs at fork in the road.

Company redrawing the peak landscape, and is expected to dominate it, Convey says.

Retailers would be crushed by soaring parcel prices, consumers would face hefty hikes,Charles River report says.

Higher costs could cut deep this holiday.

Jacksonville, Florida, employees are offered counseling following the second shooting at the Amazon facility in recent months.

A huge police presence was witnessed outside the Amazon Fulfillment Center Tuesday night.

The logistics warehouse of the future will be heavily automated, purpose-built for e-commerce and ready for tenants to “plug in” and go live almost immediately, a top executive for distribution giant Ingram Micro said Tuesday. Keynoting FreightWaves’ daylong webinar on the future of logistics warehousing, Ken Beyer, executive vice president and president of commerce and […]

Forward Air adds traditional LTL service to more of its facilities as carriers put more assets to work in the space.

JLL projects an additional 1 billion square feet in logistics property demand by 2025. That may be way too low.

Ignore heavy-goods returns at your own peril, experts warn retailers.

The Ocean Carrier Equipment Management Association says the Federal Maritime Commission’s jurisdiction does not apply to a domestic transport dispute with container-hauling truckers.

JAL supports testing drone systems to safely and efficiently deliver essential goods to the country’s health care network.

XPO’s Jacobs said facilities will be two of the most highly automated ever built.

Bias-ply tires persist within the nation’s container chassis fleet, but equipment providers vow that their days are numbered with the ongoing switch to radial tires.

Company takes action to maintain service levels to existing customers.

Lockers available in all 1,700 stores by March.

Dismissal of a lawsuit is the latest decision that backs the supporters of the law governing employer-contractor job definitions

Elion controls more than 3 million square feet of urban land.

FedEx Direct’s Standard and Premium services now serve 90% of US.

About 450 to open by year-end, consultancy says.

Ryder System’s chief technology officer tells American Shipper’s Global Trade Tech Summit that the time is right to explore future supply chain technologies.

Forward Air announces the addition of CLW Delivery to its last-mile network, continuing its acceleration of both inorganic and organic growth initiatives.

COVID-19 may have disrupted supply chains but not the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission’s regulatory and policy focus on ocean container shipping, FMC chairman says.

Company to open 100 buildings this month as demand spikes.

Last-mile logistics company USPack continued its mostly under-the-radar consolidation of its segment by acquiring Toledo, Ohio-based Freight Rite, a regional business-to-consumer delivery provider.

Iowa transportation company Travero plans to open a multimodal cross-dock operation by next September.

USPack building last-mile scale through acquisitions.

Executive moves over from supply chain COO role.

On-time deliveries are more complex than knowing exactly when a container will arrive at a port.

Increases go into effect Oct. 18.

Lynx `Drivecam’ being tested in Texas and Oklahoma.

Whether you’re an employer looking to fill freight-related positions or a job-seeker, Freight.Careers.com is the go-to website.

MD Logistics, a specialist in handling temperature-controlled pharmaceuticals, will operate as a subsidiary of the Japanese logistics services provider.

Amazon denies allegations of trademark infringement.