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New Year, New Last-Mile Delivery Solutions

Retailers are launching new programs and collaborative efforts to improve customer experience in last-mile delivery.

Source: Bloomberg

Amazon Is Its Own Biggest Mailman, Shipping 3.5 Billion Parcels

As Amazon.com works to speed orders to customer doorsteps before Christmas, the e-commerce giant is touting an accomplishment that would have seemed absurd just a few years ago: Amazon is now its own biggest carrier.

Source: Bloomberg

How to Fix Freight? Stop the Waste.

A solution to the problem of urban congestion caused by delivery vehicles that aren’t making optimal use of their capacity.

1218 Howto Fix Freight

Using Shipping Data to Meet E-Commerce Customer Demand

Two top components of customer experience are delivery and transparency, according to a recent report.

1205 Using Shipping Data

DHL Launches Cubicycle in New York City to Test the Use of Cargo Bikes to Alleviate Traffic Congestion

DHL, an international express shipping company, is rolling out its Cubicycle in New York City, participating in a pilot program to test the use of cargo bikes to alleviate traffic congestion as well as lessen air and noise pollution in the city’s crowded streets.

The Struggles of Transportation Technology

When it comes to transportation technology’s efforts to realize the promise of unmanned vehicles and alternative fuel sources, we’re in a phase comparable to early efforts to lay a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. Stuff just keeps going wrong.

1127 The Strugglesof Technology

Self-Driving Trucks: The Dismal Truth

Self-driving trucks aren’t self-driving — not in the way that regular people have every reason to understand that term.

1113 Self Driving Trucks

Why Logistics Companies Must Adopt Big Data and Cloud Technology

More than 50% of companies are using big-data analytics, a recent survey says, but a closer look reveals that adoption rate varies significantly by industry.

1111 Logistics Companies Must Adopt

Amazon Lowers Grocery Delivery Cost In Effort to Catch Walmart

Amazon.com is lowering the cost of its grocery delivery service Amazon Fresh, and expanding fast delivery of online grocery orders around the country.

A shopper carries a basket in a grocery store. Photo: Shutterstock.

FedEx E-Commerce Revamp Jolts Delivery Army by Piling On Costs

FedEx Corp.’s drive to reap the rewards of e-commerce is stirring anxiety among some of the company’s most important partners: the thousands of small businesses that handle its ground deliveries.

1031 Fed Ex E Commerce Revamp

Amazon-Whole Foods: Two Years After the Deal

It’s been two years since Amazon bought Whole Foods. At the time, analysts touted the deal as an Amazon initiative to dominate food retail. But is that what really happened?

1030 Amazon Whole Foods

Drone Deliveries From Drugstore Now a Reality in Virginia Town

Alphabet Inc. offshoot Wing, which just received an expanded certification to act as a small air carrier, is starting the nation’s inaugural delivery service via a small civilian aircraft with partners Walgreens and FedEx.

1022 Drone Deliveries From Drugstore

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