President Trump's push to have the U.S. post office double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon is not the first time the Trump and Amazon have clashed. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) Washington Post - President Trump has personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges
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Blockchain-based app can hold supply chain partners accountable for container damage
Blockchain – The invincible technology changing the face of innovation of 2018 Logistics services provider TCompanies’ newest venture, Photo Equipment Interchange Receipt (PEIR), is an app for logistics companies that aims to digitalize the process of recording damage to containers and trailers. The PEIR app’s interface allows those handling freight at transition
DHL, Rail Cargo Group, expand China’s ‘Belt-Road’ plan with new Chengdu-Vienna route
Left to right: Erik Regter (Member of the Board RCG), Thomas Kowitzki (Head of China Rail, Multimodal Europe, DHL Global Forwarding), Thomas Kargl (Member of the Board RCG), Christoph Wahl (Managing Director Austria, DHL Global Forwarding) and Clemens Först (Spokesperson of the Board RCG) In a deal spanning six countries and
Asia-Pacific carriers experience robust cargo growth, higher yields, in 2017
With major manufacturing economies in the Asia-Pacific region benefitting from increased trade activity, the area’ airlines reported a robust 9.6 percent jump in international air cargo traffic as measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTK) for the year, according to preliminary aggregated financial performance figures released over the weekend by the
UPS to create over 500 jobs with new UK delivery center
LONDON (Reuters) - Delivery firm UPS opened a new package sorting and delivery facility in south-east England on Monday, creating hundreds of jobs in one of the U.S. company’s largest infrastructure investments outside the United States. The new hub, located 25 miles east of central London, is expected to employ over
Schiphol reports cargo decline in first quarter, despite rise in Chinese, Latin American trade
Trump said Amazon cost the USPS ‘billions.’ But the post office has a different explanation.
President Trump's slam of Amazon in a March 29 tweet is hardly the first time the two have clashed. (Jhaan Elker/The Washington Post) The U.S. Postal Service says that its large financial losses are caused by market forces and governmental constraints but not Amazon.com, in a release of its quarterly statistics that stood
Didi Chuxing suspends Hitch after passenger death
The death of a 21-year-old woman after taking a ride with Didi Chuxing has sparked a social media backlash and forced China's equivalent of Uber to suspend its car-pool service. The 21-year-old flight attendant died on 6 May in Zhengzhou. She had ordered a ride using Didi's Hitch service, which pairs up
US Postal Service gets whacked with a $1.3 billion loss as it struggles to keep up with Amazon
Walmart ends grocery delivery deal with Uber and Lyft
In 2016, Walmart announced that it would begin testing grocery delivery in conjunction with Uber and Lyft. Today, however, Reuters reports that those partnerships have come to an end, which was confirmed by Walmart and Uber. TechCrunch first reported in 2015 about Uber’s plans to launch a merchant delivery system, wherein goods from retailers would be