A package of the FedEx courier delivery services company is pictured in this June 8, 2017 illustration photo. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso/Illustration On a recent trip to FedEx’s Asia Pacific headquarters, the company’s CEO stopped by Bloomberg to talk all things trade and Amazon. Fred Smith, founder, chairman and CEO of Memphis-based FedEx Corp.,
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UPS gears up for heavy-duty eBike delivery test in Seattle
United Parcel Service Inc on Thursday will unveil an urban delivery test in Seattle that uses electric bicycles geared to carry packages in large preloaded boxes to save time and cut pollution, the company said. The new project from UPS, which started in Seattle in 1907 as a bicycle messenger company,
USPS proposes Amazon pay up to 12 percent more for shipping
DHL flies medicine via fixed-wing drone to Lake Victoria island
DHL has completed testing of “Deliver Future,” its pilot project to transport medicine using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to Ukerewe Island in East Africa’s Lake Victoria. Over a six-month period, the fixed-wing “DHL Parcelcopter 4.0” (pictured), which utilizes German drone manufacturer Wingcopter’s tilt-rotor technology, successfully flew a 37-mile route to
FedEx to use special bonuses to keep pilots from retiring: report
FedEx Memphis hub FedEx Ground CFO Bob Henning on the company’s plans for the busy holiday season and the potential competition in shipping from Amazon. The holiday shipping season is coming and FedEx is making sure the packages get there on time. The delivery service wants to keep retirement-age pilots on the job
DHL offers cash-on-delivery payment for e-commerce in SE Asia
What’s the opposite of digitalization? DHL e-commerce’s new cash-on-delivery service, which allows consumers to pay for international online purchases with cash as a part of the company’s “parcel international direct” channel. The service targets sellers based in China and Australia that deliver to consumers in Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. “Despite growing credit
FedEx Ground expands operations to six days
To get packages here to there, millions of customers turn to FedEx, a leading global logistics service provider. FedEx operates a system of big regional distribution centres. Company cites e-commerce demand that “goes beyond peak.” FedEx Ground U.S. operations have been expanded to six days a week year-round in response to what
American logistics companies brace for Florence supply chain disruptions
Tracking Hurricane Florence, impact on Pittsburgh area | WPXI While Hurricane Florence appears to have weakened overnight to a Category 2 storm, it has maintained its vast size and slowed its forward momentum this morning, making the risk of serious supply chain disruption even worse as it makes landfall later today
UPS expects automation, expansion plans to boost earnings by 2022
United Parcel Service Inc expects its automation and expansion plans to add between $1.00 and $1.20 to its adjusted earnings per share by 2022, the world’s biggest package delivery company said on Thursday. Atlanta-based UPS is in the early stages of its $20 billion capital spending project to automate and expand