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
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Why cargo bike deliveries are taking over the UK’s cities
An Outspoken delivery rider in Cambridge. Photograph: Paul Rogers for the Guardian Eco-friendly cycle logistics firms are popping up across the UK, carrying everything from Amazon packages to takeaway food and bouquets London (The Guardian) - Ben Cartwright is amid a ritual familiar to thousands of delivery workers across the country, carefully
Volume growth slows at Fraport’s airports in October
Cargo Hub In Frankfurt Frankfurt Airport is home to around 250 airlines, freight forwarders, cargo handlers and other logistics service provider. It is a major hub for international transport of mail and parcels, equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure and technology. Besides being a major hub for international cargo shipments, Frankfurt Airport has also developed into a center for courier
How cargo bikes can help unclog London’s congested roads
Outspoken Delivery already runs cargo bike operations in Cambridge, Glasgow and Norwich. Photograph: Paul Rogers/Commissioned for The Guardian Waltham Forest’s new zero-emissions delivery service aims to replace polluting trucks for local deliveries of food, online purchases and more Each morning Oscar Godoy unlocks a door in a railway arch in north London, organizes
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
UPS building $90m parcel hub outside Denver
A conveyer belt in the new UPS package distribution facility, which opened Nov. 1 The facility, located in an industrial business park in Aurora, is expected to partially begin operations later this year, in time for the holiday shipping season, UPS said in a statement. Aurora, Colorado - UPS is opening a
Thanks to automation, UPS shipping more packages with the same number of people – CEO
UPS Shipping more packages with the same number of people The upcoming holiday period is shaping up to be another record-breaking shipping season. In fact, United Parcel Service (UPS) forecasts 750 million packages will be delivered between Black Friday and New Year’s Eve, a 5% increase from last year. Despite the expected increase in
UPS beats revenue expectations, boosted by international, supply chain sales growth
UPS SCS Case Study United Parcel Service Inc. UPS, -0.96% reported Thursday third-quarter net income of $1.26 billion, or $1.45 a share, compared with $1.27 billion, or $1.44 a share, in the same period a year ago. The FactSet consensus for earnings per share was $1.45. Revenue rose 7% to $15.98 billion,
UPS announces U.S. rate hikes, new peak surcharges for 2018
DETROIT (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc said on Wednesday it would raise rates across many of its U.S. services by 4.9 percent later this year, with surcharge increases for next year’s peak season focused mainly on residential addresses. The rise of e-commerce and online retailers like Amazon has posed challenges for the
Canada Post, Purolator strengthen Cargojet partnership with early contract extension
Deal tasked Cargojet with providing comprehensive Canada-wide air cargo services for Canada Post Group of Companies (CPGOC). Purolator and Canada Post, part of a conglomeration known as the Canada Post Group of Companies (CPGOC), have announced an early extension to a 2014 air cargo contract with Cargojet, now running through 2025,