delivery

Last mile robotic delivery services are hitting the headlines fast and furious. During the recent Consumer Electronics Show JD.Com Inc (NASDAQ: JD) and Udelv announced major commercial deals, while the German company Continental wowed crowds with a demonstration of a spider-like...

The rise of ecommerce has truly shrunk supply chain timelines, speeding up consumer expectations in its wake. Deliveries to a consumer's door that took a week a decade ago take only two days today, courtesy of the tight delivery schedules that have now become the norm. Chinese ecommerce...

UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said today it is expanding a program with Latch, a provider of keyless delivery services, that grants UPS drivers keyless access to drop off parcels in common areas of multi-unit dwellings. Starting mid-year, building owners or property managers in 10 markets will allow...

The keys to UPS Inc.'s (NYSE: UPS) fastest-growing and arguably its most pivotal 21st century business have been handed to an outsider. Earlier this week, Philippe Gilbert took the reins as the first president of the company's Supply Chain and Freight operation, one of the Atlanta-...

As drone technology infiltrates the freight space, most eyes are on final mile package delivery. This is small packages, usually just a few pounds, moving very short distances. Drones can be used for another type of freight movement, and one that has the potential to improve delivery of bulkier...

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) and Volkswagen AG (OTCMKTS: VWAPY) jointly announced an expanded partnership that includes commercial vehicles during a press conference this morning at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Talks between the companies began last summer and...

Good day, Here are a couple of the deals and tech unveiled by robotic delivery companies during the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) last week. China's second-largest e-commerce company, JD.com, displayed an autonomous four-wheeled robot that can deliver packages up to five kilometers. The...

UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) said today that U.S. export shipments picked up at origin on Saturdays will be processed for delivery on that day instead of waiting until Monday, a move UPS said will cut one day off transit times to 57 international markets. The service, which began over the weekend,...

Anyone involved in the supply chain knows that e-commerce has had a major impact on the industry. While much of the impact has been positive, e-commerce is also causing badly clogged roads and streets during peak hours. Think tanks and urban planners have been hard at work, zeroing in on possible...

FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) has been consistent in its views of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) becoming a threat to FedEx's delivery business. To wit, a delivery startup like Amazon can't compete with FedEx's network, technologies and portfolio built up over nearly 50 years and...

Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) will deploy autonomous vehicles to deliver groceries for customers, according to Tom Ward, senior vice president of digital operations for the retail giant. Autonomous vehicle company Udelv is providing the technology to make the pilot program possible. As the world...

The success of electric and autonomous vehicles may rely not on the technologies themselves, but rather on the applications in which they are first used. Try to take an electric truck 500 miles across the country right now and it will fail. The technology can't support that application yet, and...