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When Jayson Gonzalez was asked by FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller to speak at the FreightWaves LIVE event in Chicago on Nov. 12 about the difficulties of making interstate deliveries, he had no idea that a special delivery would be made to him. The 21-year-old gained national attention earlier this...

John Lewis & Partners, the U.K.-based chain of department stores, has announced that hundreds of its delivery trucks will switch to using biomethane as fuel by 2021, which is in line with the retailer's pledge to power its entire delivery fleet with biomethane by 2028.  A portion of the...

Before deregulation of the transportation industry, it was primarily household goods carriers such as movers and van lines that handled the commercial movement of third proviso goods — items that required the specialized skills and tools of a mover for transport like new furniture. I made one of...

Robotic delivery company Starship Technologies is deploying 30 robots at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, giving more than 66,000 students, staff and faculty access to autonomous food delivery. The UW is the company's biggest U.S. campus client to date, Starship said in a statement. ...

UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said Tuesday that its commercial drone unit had made its first revenue deliveries of prescription drugs from a CVS Corp. (NYSE: CVS) pharmacy in North Carolina to customers' residences. The first two deliveries occurred last Friday in Cary, North Carolina. The first flight...

The past decade in the road freight industry has seen businesses pushing toward digitalization of legacy processes within logistics operations. Companies are waking up to the prospect that visibility into the supply chain will ultimately help every stakeholder in the ecosystem reduce expenses by...

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The Filipino partner of freight forwarder U-Freight Group (UFG) has launched iShipmore, an online shipping platform aimed at assisting sellers who need to ship items bought online to Philippines-based consignees. The platform targets logistics problems experienced by online purchasers of goods, who...

FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) and United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) should both be bought by investors, according to Wells Fargo. The Analyst Wells Fargo analyst Allison Poliniak-Cusic initiated coverage of FedEx's stock with an Outperform rating and $189 price target. The analyst also...

On October 24, Amazon.com, Inc. (NYSE: AMZN) reported its financial results for the third quarter, which included a revenue beat and an earnings miss, the company's first in two years. The e-commerce giant's massive investments in transforming its two-day Prime network to one-day delivery were to...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is offering customized ground parcel delivery services for its select high-volume shippers at rates as low as $3 per parcel for shipments weighing up to 50 pounds and traveling significant lengths of haul, according to a person familiar with the program. The...

E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is expanding its in-store pickup service Counter, announcing on October 23 that it is partnering with GNC Holdings Inc (NYSE: GNC), Health Mart and Stage Stores Inc (NYSE: SSI). This move will allow consumers access to thousands more Counter...

FedEx Express (NYSE: FDX) on Friday used an unmanned aerial vehicle instead of a truck for last-mile residential deliveries on behalf of pharmacy retailer Walgreens (NASDAQ: WBA). The Oct. 18 deliveries were made by Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, in Christianburg, Virginia,...

At the 3PL & Supply Chain Summit in Brussels, Thomas Stroo, the head of logistics at meal-kit delivery startup HelloFresh, highlighted the company's success in creating a lean and centralized supply chain that can be micro-controlled from the farmhouse to the consumer's doorstep.  A German-...

Final-mile information technology (IT) provider eTrac has partnered with the trade group Customized Logistics and Delivery Association (CLDA) to expand eTrac's last-mile carrier network and to create delivery opportunities for association members, the company and group said late last week. CLDA's...