FreightWaves interviewed an expert to learn more about what it will take to adapt supply chains to a circular economy.
Urb-E, the e-cargo bike last-mile delivery company, has joined the Zero Emission Delivery Zone program in Santa Monica.
An environmental coalition urges Target, Walmart, Amazon and Ikea to clean up their maritime emissions and shipping routes.
Sauder Woodworking was in need of more flexibility as omnichannel retail ramped up, and it found it with Cleo’s Integration Cloud platform.
“Meeting customers where they need us most has been a relentless focus of the team since inception,” says the co-founder and CEO of Bolt Logistics.
Biden-backed plan to tackle container congestion could make logjam even worse, critics believe.
It costs roughly $7 million to charter a vessel, but avoiding congested ports may be worth it for some big companies.
Several large retailers are pledging that in less than 20 years, they will ship goods across the ocean without emitting greenhouse gases. Some environmental groups say that’s not soon enough.
Despite Ikea’s many climate-related goals, Ship It Zero is calling out the Swedish retailer and other major players such as Amazon and Walmart via “die-ins” to highlight shipping emissions’ impacts on human and environmental health.
An FMC advisory committee has been formed amid ongoing shipper complaints of carrier market power abuse.
The container ship now is expected to anchor in San Pedro Bay on May 1.
It’s a good day to breathe a bit easier. The number of all-electric trucks headed out to make local deliveries is growing. Whether you’re in Southern California or a major Canadian city, all-electric trucks will be coming your way by the end of 2022, with some going into service by this fall. Volvo announces largest-ever […]
IKEA Canada and its last-mile delivery partner Second Closet will purchase all-electric trucks from Lion Electric to be used for home deliveries.
Pearl service customers’ imports likely will be delayed arriving from Asia.
The New York City last-mile fleet will have 40 electric vehicles, with the Los Angeles region adding 50 more, IKEA said.
The Maersk Eureka is 650 miles off the coast of Alaska awaiting repairs
The ocean carrier has not said when customers can expect to receive damaged or intact cargo.
The Maersk Eindhoven, which lost 260 containers overboard, is slated to berth for repairs in Japan on Thursday.
More than 2,900 containers have gone overboard just since the end of November.
Six cases of at-sea container losses have been reported in less than three months.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlines a coordinated effort to expedite the deployment of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty trucks.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Ikea acquires 42,000-acre forest in Texas; Port of Brownsville gains approval for $38 billion LNG projects; Laredo border bridges see long lines for cargo trucks; Global logistics provider Röhlig expands in Mexico. Ikea acquires 42,000-acre forest in […]
Swedish retailer opened a facility near Toronto to accommodate growing volumes of final-mile deliveries to region’s fast-growing suburbs.
In September 2017, IKEA Group was one of the first to join EV100—a global initiative created by The Climate Group—and now, a year later, IKEA Group has announced their commitment to moving toward zero emissions deliveries in 5 major cities by 2020.
Ikea’s acquisition of TaskRabbit is seen as a way to give Ikea customers access to assembly services. But it also may pave the way for local delivery of Ikea products, perhaps producing a new need for delivery drivers.
