E-commerce
Shopify, UPS cut deal to lower rates for online retailers
A Mobile fone Christmas is coming early for smaller retailers looking to boost online sales. A UPS-Shopify rate deal puts smaller retailers one step closer to competing with Amazon.com’s extensive logistics advantage, by offering lower rates usually reserved for larger customers. Shopify now features a UPS-hosted dashboard on its platform. Henceforth, the
DHL expands Hong Kong hub as China market heats up
DHL’s new Central Asia regional Hub for express cargo sorting and handling facility with a total area of 18,000 square metres. With last week’s 11/11 e-commerce holiday just the latest in a series of broken records for e-commerce volumes, companies are re-evaluating the scope of China’s market and positioning themselves for
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DHL Customers prefer root canals to late shipments
In DHL’s 2017 Holiday Survey, 27 percent of the integrator’s customers surveyed said that they would “rather get a root canal than having personal holiday shipments come late,” which suggests that some 27 percent of customers haven’t yet experienced the skull-splitting agony of the dentists’ drill burrowing into their molars. Regardless,
FedEx braces for unprecedented holiday volumes as e-commerce sales surge
Holiday season surge could hit 400 million Packages UPS ranks No. 1 and FedEx No. 2 on the Transport Topics Top 100 list of the largest North American for-hire carriers. Memphis - FedEx expects to handle between 380 million and 400 million packages this holiday season, positioning the Memphis-based integrator at the epicenter of yet another record-breaking
3PLs not worried about competition from Amazon…yet
Between Amazon’s rapid growth and unpredictability, third-party logistics providers say it is definitely a looming concern as to whether the e-commerce giant will be a threat to their business in the future. E-commerce giant Amazon appears to be gaining ground in many aspects, between boosting net sales and continuously increasing its
