UPS Inc. is expecting slight delays in package deliveries after a surge in e-commerce sales swamped its network in the days after Thanksgiving.
December 5, 2017Logistics News
For the commercial transportation business, moving things from point A to point B is job one. This coverage explores all of those movements at a global level and focuses on everything from global trade, ocean shipping, and port activity to intermodal business, rail operations and the greater supply chain.
Soaring Global Freight Costs Expected to Squeeze Traders, Boost Food Prices
It鈥檚 getting more expensive to transport commodities around the world, threatening to squeeze profits for global traders and raise food prices.
December 5, 2017Shipping Billionaires are in a High Seas 鈥楢rms Race鈥
A shopping spree by two billionaires is shaking up a shipping industry still recovering from years of falling rates and overcapacity.
December 4, 2017Kroger Switches to Penske to Handle Trucking, Warehousing in Texas
Nearly 700 employees who work in a Kroger warehouse in Keller, Texas, were laid off when the supermarket chain terminated a relationship with SouthStar and signed with Penske Logistics, but Penske said individuals affected will be able to reapply for job
December 4, 2017Capitol Agenda for the Week of Dec. 4: New Jersey Drive
The dilapidated stretch of Interstate 95, or the Turnpike, along Newark鈥檚 metropolitan region in beautiful New Jersey needs to be repaired soon, and raising federal taxes on fuel is the way to go about it, Rep. Donald Payne Jr. said amid Congress鈥 debate on tax policy. A look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill.
December 4, 2017Campbell Is Testing Online Soup Delivery
Campbell Soup Co. is testing an online service that will deliver soups to customers鈥 doors, part of an effort by the 148-year-old food giant to shake off a sales slump and update its business model.
December 1, 2017Defense to Key Witness in Pilot Flying J Fraud Trial: Isn鈥檛 Cheating 鈥楧umb鈥 Business Move?
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. 鈥 In a bid to discredit a key government witness in the ongoing Pilot Flying J fraud trial, a defense attorney on Nov. 30 offered up a question about any scheme to defraud customers.
December 1, 2017Warehouses Are Getting Bigger, Taller, Faster
Those boxes piling up on your doorstep over the holidays don鈥檛 ship from Santa鈥檚 workshop. As Americans spend more money shopping online, real estate developers are sinking record amounts of money into new warehouse space, building bigger, taller structures to meet the needs of e-commerce 鈥 and the robots that help it along.
December 1, 2017Cyber Monday Orders Are In; Retailers Now Giving Perks for Patience
Shoppers clicking 鈥渂uy鈥 on smartphones, tablets and laptops spent almost $20 billion online from Thanksgiving through Monday. Now retailers have to turn that spending spree into a flood of cardboard boxes on their way to shoppers鈥 doorsteps.
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