Amazon’s Jeff Bezos increases investment in U.K.-based supply chain platform Beacon and confirms rumors of investment in Singapore-based e-commerce platform Ula.
On the path to 100% renewable energy by 2025, Amazon is investing in 14 new projects and touts it is the “largest corporate buyer of renewable energy” in the U.S. and the world.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, offering up a to-do list for new Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Plus, recapping the latest earnings and how Bezos changed logistics.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, Schneider plans to invest in new equipment in 2021. Plus, UPS CEO Carol Tomé talks about the sale of UPS Freight; Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO of Amazon; and Daimler spins off its truck businesses.
Amazon CEO steps away after going where no retailer had gone before.
Amazon announces a leadership shift as it crushes fourth-quarter 2020 estimates and reports $125 billion in revenue.
Amazon uses a lot of energy and emits a lot of pollution, but it is taking aggressive steps to be eco-friendly. Case in point: Amazon Air buying biofuel for its aircraft.
Beacon is a UK-based digital freight forwarder – one of many that have vowed to disrupt the freight forwarding industry.
Truck owner claims his employer and Amazon worked him “like a rented mule.”
The 2010s started with logistics in its traditional place toward the back of the bus. The decade ended with logistics behind the wheel. It began with the sector, like the […]
Amazon’s EV order a shot at Tesla; India advances national logistics policy.
FedEx, tired of jumping through hoops for Amazon.com at non-compensatory rates, cuts the ground-delivery cord with the e-tailer
Good Day, On July 5, 1995 Jeff Bezos left his job at a hedge fund in New York, drove across the country and launched an online book selling business from […]
Amazon’s explosive growth and e-commerce domination, which has contributed to its expansive transportation and logistics footprint around the globe, is the subject of a second book by Brad Stone.
Will the mailbox monopoly be loosened to let the big boys in?
Amazon has promised to name a location this year for the so-called HQ2 project, which it claims will ultimately employ 50,000 people. Using SONAR, from a freight perspective, we’re here to help.
On top of creating a Godzilla-size footprint across the world, Amazon has also put together a string of strong quarters, 11 to be exact. How significant is their disruption into the carrier space?
