Amazon is promising massive profits to anyone who wants to start a delivery company with a minimum $10,000 investment Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday said it would offer incentives to entice entrepreneurs to set up their own small package-delivery businesses as part of Amazon’s latest effort to solve the challenge of getting
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Automakers warn U.S. tariffs will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, hike prices
A coalition representing major foreign automakers in U.S Two major auto trade groups on Wednesday warned the Trump administration that imposing up to 25 percent tariffs on imported vehicles would cost hundreds of thousands of auto jobs, dramatically hike prices on vehicles and threaten industry spending on self-driving cars. A coalition representing
Volkswagen Launches Rwanda Operations
Initial investment of US$20 million to create up to 1,000 jobs, assemble up to 5,000 cars per year. The wait is over as Volkswagen (VW) officially kicks off its much-awaited operations in Rwanda. The official launch will take place on Wednesday, at the Kigali Special Economic Zone where its first assembly base will be
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U.K. logistics industry sounds Brexit alarm
Freight Transport Association tells the government: Give us the tools to keep Britain trading. Britain’s Freight Transport Association (FTA) says the logistics industry needs urgent assistance and guidance from the government if delayed shipments or shortages of products are to be avoided after the country leaves the European Union. Speaking at a
U.S. June auto sales seen up 2.5 percent: J.D. Power and LMC
FILE PHOTO: New cars are shown for sale at a Chevrolet dealership in National City, California, U.S. on June 30, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo U.S. auto sales in June likely rose 2.5 percent from the same month in 2017 as consumers continued to prefer expensive pickup trucks, SUVs and crossovers over
DHL adding e-commerce operation to existing Aussie facility
The increase in e-commerce exports from Australia has prompted DHL to add an e-commerce-specific distribution center to its already-existing 16,700-square-meter Melbourne cargo facility, operated by DHL’s Global Forwarding division. The co-located operation are situated in the Melbourne suburb of Tullamarine. The new addition, operated by DHL’s eCommerce division, will mostly handle
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Lufthansa’s Eurowings says Air Berlin plane transfer almost done
The BEST fare seats are seen inside an Airbus A340-300 of Eurowings, a low-cost airline and fully owned subsidiary of German Lufthansa Group, as Eurowings opens a new route from Duesseldorf to New York, in Duesseldorf, Germany, April 27, 2018. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay Lufthansa’s budget carrier Eurowings expects the transfer of planes from