Earlier this week FreightWaves reported that regional parcel carriers are confronting a historic opportunity to pick up e-commerce business as FedEx and UPS seek to widen margin with price hikes and volume caps.
According to ShipHero Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Daniel-Richards, shippers are still scrambling to find technology and fulfillment solutions to manage their parcel moves for this year’s peak retail season. Founded seven years ago, ShipHero provides software-as-a-service, or a...
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Third-party logistics services provider (3PL) Geodis said it plans to hire up to 8,000 seasonal employees in the U.S. to handle an anticipated surge in freight volumes for the end-of-year holidays.
The company plans to spread the hiring across its 19 locations across the country.
Geodis said its need for the additional seasonal employees is largely due to the continued rise in online shopping during the coronavirus pandemic. The company cited a recent eMarketer report that forecasts e-commerce...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/geodis-expands-us-workforce-to-meet-peak-season
Disruption continues to be the prime focus of supply chains, whether it’s positive business surges or times of crisis. Overcoming these disruptors requires an operation with complete visibility, flexibility, and optimization across the entire supply chain journey. At Ryder, their industry leading third-party logistics solutions span the entire supply chain from inbound logistics and transportation, to warehousing and distribution, to outbound and returns. This includes nearshoring, e-commerce...
Logistics and supply chain solutions provider Blume Global has hired Tom Williams as its new chief financial officer.
Most recently, Williams led the finance team at Steelwedge as CFO and managed its acquisition by E2Open. Prior to Steelwedge, Williams served as CFO for Evestment Inc., the world’s largest institutional investment database. He has more than three decades of experience in finance, including leadership roles at public companies including Manhattan Associates and Sterling Commerce.
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In a research report, San Francisco-based real estate investment trust Prologis Inc. (NYSE: PLD) says there are significant headwinds involved in converting retail space to logistics throughput centers.
COVID-19 has forced many traditional brick-and-mortar retailers to further adopt e-commerce solutions, with many looking to transform existing retail stores with low foot traffic into digital fulfillment centers.
However, the report suggests that retail conversions “will be small, amounting to...
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Last-mile logistics company USPack continued its mostly under-the-radar consolidation of its segment by acquiring Toledo, Ohio-based Freight Rite, a regional business-to-consumer (B2C) delivery provider.
At the same time, New York-based USPack acquired Gumro & Associates, a nationwide provider of pool distribution and store replenishment solutions. Gumro is based in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, Michigan.
Terms of neither transaction were disclosed.
The Freight Rite acquisition will push...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/uspack-acquires-last-mile-delivery-pool-distribution-firms
Europe’s online shoppers continue to desire high-end and specialty American-made products, but the difficult decision of whether to pay for expensive express service or go with cheaper, less definitive shipping through postal services cause many of these sales to fizzle.
That is why third-party logistics services provider Geodis said it has recently launched an e-commerce shipping service that provides a more comfortable price point and transit time between express carrier and postal services.
Geo...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/geodis-opens-european-market-to-us-e-tailers
Amazon Air launched cargo operations in Maui and on Hawaii Island last week to help facilitate speedier deliveries for Prime customers.
The retail giant’s two newest regional gateways are at Kahului Airport and Kona International Airport, the company said in a news release shared with FreightWaves that hasn’t been posted on its website. It first announced the start of air cargo operations in a tweet last week.
Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) in-house airline is now operating daily flights from its...
Huge retailer preps for DIY fulfillment demand spike
Home improvement giant Home Depot Inc. (NYSE:HD) announced on Tuesday that it will open three distribution centers in metro Atlanta over the next 18 months as it expands fulfillment and delivery services to professional contractors and what is expected to be an increasingly important do-it-yourself (DIY) customer base.
The largest of the three, a 657,600-square-foot facility, will open in Locust Grove, about 36 miles south of Atlanta, by the...
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