Microgrids may become an essential part of the scalability of elec

The US Postal Service expands its program June 23 levying rates based on a parcel’s dimensions instead of its actual weight. The fallout has yet to be determined

DHL Supply plans a 40% expansion of its US healthcare and life sciences footprint

As a shipper of choice, Nestle wins plaudits for its willingness to partner and its fondness for innovation.

Target looks to find a way into a delivery niche with the launch of same day deliveries

Final-mile providers face surging headaches to go with surging demand for large-format shipments

Walmart has exported its on-time, in-full requirement on the international marketplace. The results are improving but there is a lot of work to do.

Lufthansa Cargo forms dedicated unit to capitalize on cross-border e-commerce

The FedEx-Amazon divorce isn’t that big. AI to transform Indian transport. GLP out at the top of US logistics real estate market?

FedEx and Amazon part ways on US air services with both probably the better off for it

FedEx Express terminates its domestic air delivery business with Amazon to focus on broader e-commerce market

FedEx Express creates flex-time driver category that will supplement full time workforce

BoxBot is testing a self-driving, electric vehicle for parcel firm OnTrac in northern California.

YRC names T.J. O’Connor as COO; O’Connor to remainas head of YRC Freight

Atlanta and Amsterdam Airports sign an MoU to develop better air cargo processes to support goods moving between the two big markets

The expected four-fold growth in e-grocery demand will spark a land rush in cold storage facilities, CBRE says

Amazon rolls out new hybrid drone design with independent sensors for enhanced safety

Justin Hall has left the chief customer officer post at YRC almost 3 years to the day that he took the newly created job.

Owners of industrial real estate expect gains in 2019 but not to the extent that had been once forecast, a survey found.

Singapore’s GLP had planned a US IPO. Instead, it has dramatically downsized its US exposure by selling most of its assets to Blackstone

Uber and Lyft want to soak up mass transit business but at whose peril? USPS is painting itself into a corner as it loses last-mile business of its key customers

Third-party logistics providers will see their growth dented by the threatened tariffs on Mexican imports. The question is by how much?

FedEx says it will launch year-round Sunday deliveries next January, and will siphon off all of its business tendered to the US Postal Service

Simplicity is the key in managing increasingly complex final-mile operations. That and basic blocking and tackling

LTL carrier Averitt Express has opened a large international DC near Port of Savannah to manage increased volumes at the port

Air Transport Services Group deepens its credit line as it prepares for increased demand for its aircraft and services

The number of connected vehicles has soared and will continue to grow in the years to come. Learn how cars and light trucks will be the next digital tool.

A report indicates that the EU is slow to adopt alternate truck fuels. Indian logistics startups are flourishing. Chinese logistics firms that help Chinese businesses relocate are winners in the US-China trade war.

John Larkin, arguably the father of all transport analysts and recently an investment banker, is leaving banking to join a small private equity firm

UPS makes largest renewable natural gas buy in history with a 170 million gallon purchase

GM looks to expand its in-car delivery program to other carriers and retailers besides its relationship with Amazon

Amazon.com has inked a 20-year, $100 million deal to build an air cargo complex in Lakeland, Fla. near the center of the state.

US Supreme Court denies petition by UPS to review US Postal Service’s accounting cost structure

Ford to lay off 7,000 as part of major restructuring

Commenters want DOT to keep policy guidance, and not remove it. Walmart executive says lack of IT hurts driver productivity.

Amazon.com is the lead partner in a $575 million Series G funding round for UK food delivery firm Deliver

XPO shareholders reject Teamsters union proposal to split company’s chairman and CEO roles.

UPS completes major modernization of its ground hub in Louisville, a key node in its network

Amazon.com breaks ground on its air hub in Cincinnati suburb of Hebron, Ky

Collective bargaining agreement between YRC and Teamsters union takes effect

UPS triples the number of destinations for Saturday export service to US.

Walmart launches one-day delivery in Phoenix and Las Vegas two weeks after Amazon announces its plans to start the service

Forward Air names Chris Ruble COO, Matthew Jewell chief commercial officer

Amazon.com, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) need for personnel to staff its package delivery network is so acute that it is looking inside its four walls to recruit them. The Seattle-based e-taling giant […]

A credits markets reporter writes about the waning value of the motor fuels tax screen. A logistics company starts-up in Myanmar. And the supposedly available US labor pool is not as available as one might think

The U.S. Postal Service suffered more of the same in its fiscal second quarter: Billion dollar net loss, parcel gains offset by mail losses

Logistics real estate continues to attract money from institutional investors all over the world.

Daunting challenges to effective humanitarian logistics processes, Chernock says

Freight intelligence company FreightWaves presented the American Logistics Aid Network with a $7,400 check on May 8 as part of FreightWaves’ initiative to raise $50,000 in support of the humanitarian logistics organization’s work.

Real estate services concern Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) has hired Tray Anderson, a top executive at supply chain management consultancy Fortna, to run its logistics and industrial services operation […]

XPO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE:XPO) was prepping late last year for a massive acquisition, one that Chairman and CEO Brad Jacobs said Tuesday would have effectively doubled XPO’s $17 billion a […]

The afternoon block of freight technology demonstrations at Transparency19 in Atlanta May 6 brought home the value of information technology in optimizing the basic blocking-and-tackle functions that could make or […]

Quantum computing’s advocates – there about 25 companies currently studying it – believe the technology heralds a massive improvement over the advanced systems that are becoming mainstream today. For transport […]

The two leading shareholder advisory firms have said they will support an International Brotherhood of Teamsters proposal to separate the chairman and CEO positions at XPO Logistics, Inc. (NYSE:XPO) and […]

Rank-and-file approve by 60-40 margin.

Weak demand on the asset light side weighs down results.

Company behind rivals in its pricing position, Jacobs says

Good execution has CEO Jacobs in ebullient mood.

Strong bottom-line offsets some volume sluggishness.

Last local ratifies rider, paving way for contract implementation.

Urbain to leave as CEO June 1, become top aide to new chairman Saade.

Eight years since he burst on the scene with a $150 million acquisition of a then 22-year-old company called Express-1 Expedited Solutions, Brad Jacobs today sits astride a $17 billion per year multi-national behemoth.

Smiley declares war…again.

No stakeholder will be spared the consequences of the move.

Company about to move the delivery cheese again.

Is US airfreight due for a resurgence after 20-year hibernation?

Bottom line comes in light. Investors wary to unimpressed.

Centers set for redesign for different inventory.

Recent shipping trends reflect a slowdown in user demand across the air, rail, maritime and truckload modes of transport. Those trends seem to have passed by the $42 billion per […]

Company was solid parcel player in the Northeast for decades.

Commonwealth tries to bring more skilled techs into the logistics, warehouse fold.

Garage becomes another 21st century delivery node.

Company accelerates re-purchases as it had planned.

Amazon.com, Inc.’s volumes are so immense that the company has pitched tents to support its deliveries.

Changing distribution patterns could spell trouble for intermodal, report says.

Demand softened while supply caught up, firm says.

P44-Reliance and UPS-AscendTMS pursuing different customers but with similar objective.

As workers decide their fate, management works to wean itself off high-volume business.

Deal broadens Americold geography, protein business.

Will it make money? Does it matter?

Shippers poised to pull business if pact gets thumbs down, Soehl says.

Shortage of skilled labor industry’s biggest headache.

No pension hikes in the cards under the agreement.

Only one more local needs to ratify for national contract to take effect.

Company expects to pass on lower costs to shippers.

The last mile has become first priority.

The industry’s hottest conference will only get hotter.

The final-mile’s future lies with heavy goods

Move seen as another effort to position Amazon as competition to incumbents.

Busy border city 22nd Mexican market to get UPS service.

DHL unit to enter a big auto supply chain business at Charleston.

Group hopes to set standards for `shippers of choice’.

Amazon to diversify from Boeing 767 flying.

Noatum to dramatically increase global footprint.

Cross-border drivers like new wage structure, carrier executive says.

Service first FAA-sanctioned drone flight for routine, contractual deliveries.

Shippers are buying far more than LTL these days, McReynolds says.

Ohio raises diesel and gasoline taxes; YRC’s rank and file get their hands on a new collective bargaining agreement; Uber’s IPO approaches; warehouse automation growing rapidly; Vietnam’s logistics growing 14-16% CAGR.

The labor rubber is about to hit the road.

Existing pact extended two months to allow for rank-and-file ratification vote.