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FedEx, Cart.com form strategic alliance to tackle e-commerce

Breaking into the marketplace space and competing with the likes of Amazon, Shopify and eBay is difficult. Teaming up with a powerhouse carrier can make it easier.

That’s exactly the route Austin, Texas-based Cart.com is going. The e-commerce platform on Wednesday announced a strategic alliance with FedEx (NYSE: FDX) Dataworks, the carrier’s data science and machine learning arm, to enhance the online shopping experience for merchants and consumers alike.

The collaboration will bring together...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fedex-cartcom-form-strategic-alliance-to-tackle-e-commerce

DroneDek integrates smart mailbox with A2Z Drone Delivery system

DroneDek drone delivery mailbox

Drone delivery is about much more than just the drone. Just ask DroneDek and A2Z Drone Delivery. 

The two companies, each of which focuses on a different piece of drone infrastructure, on Monday announced a technical integration partnership to combine DroneDek’s smart mailbox with A2Z’s second-generation Rapid Delivery System (RDS2) for drone delivery.

DroneDek’s “mailbox of the future” is a high-tech delivery receptacle featuring a drone charging station, a heated and cooled storage compartment,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dronedek-integrates-smart-mailbox-with-a2z-drone-delivery-system

Zipline begins medical drone deliveries in Utah

Zipline drone delivery medical supplies prescriptions

There are two pet peeves that just about every sick person has in common: a trip to the doctor’s office and a trip to the pharmacy. 

The first problem has been addressed by services like telehealth, which take the visit out of the doctor’s visit. But unless you live next door to a pharmacy, you will probably still need to get dressed and go for a drive.

Unless you live in Utah’s Salt Lake Valley.

This week, drone delivery firm Zipline began flying commercially in the region with Intermountain...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/zipline-begins-medical-drone-deliveries-in-utah

DHL partners with BigCommerce on B2B and B2C delivery

DHL express delivery trucks

When one of the largest shippers on the planet partners with one of the most popular e-commerce platforms in the world, it’s worth paying attention.

On Tuesday, international shipper DHL (OCTUS: DPSGY) and e-commerce firm BigCommerce (NASDAQ: BIGC) announced a partnership that will grant BigCommerce merchants access to the DHL Express delivery network. 

The partnership also makes merchants eligible for perks like discounted rates and access to DHL shipping and logistics professionals.

By shipping...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dhl-partners-with-bigcommerce-on-b2b-and-b2c-delivery

American Eagle logistics arm Quiet Platforms partners with FourKites

American Eagle quiet platforms logistics

American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) continues to deliver on its mission to become a logistics powerhouse.

The retailer’s logistics arm, Quiet Platforms, which Chief Supply Chain Officer Shekar Natarajan has dubbed the “anti-Amazon,” on Thursday announced a partnership with supply chain visibility leader FourKites to help customers track the movement of inventory in real time.

Quiet last month officially launched its flagship Delivery Network, which pools the logistics assets of different...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/american-eagle-logistics-arm-quiet-platforms-partners-with-fourkites

Meta Platforms enters grocery delivery arena with WhatsApp service

JioMart Jio Platforms grocery delivery courier

The largest companies in the U.S. are jumping onto a new delivery trend. Amazon, Walmart and Target are just a few of the Fortune 500 firms that have tried their hand at on-demand grocery services. 

The list just got longer.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) on Monday introduced a new delivery service that allows customers in India to order groceries through the popular Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp. The end-to-end offering is being rolled out in partnership with JioMart, a joint venture...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/meta-platforms-enters-grocery-delivery-arena-with-whatsapp-service

Project44 adds supply chain SaaS firm Turvo to partner network

supply chain visibility truck on highway

Two supply chain powerhouses just rolled their combined capabilities into a single platform.

On Tuesday, Chicago-based project44 and Bay Area-based Turvo announced a strategic and technical partnership that will integrate project44’s supply chain visibility platform with Turvo’s supply chain management software. That includes the company’s flagship collaborative transportation management system.

Turvo describes its TMS as a “cloud-based social network.” It gives freight brokers, 3PLs and shippers...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/project44-adds-supply-chain-saas-firm-turvo-to-partner-network

194 Kate D Adamson, Blue Futurist, Futurenautics

The Blue Economy  
Part 2 of my conversation with Kate D Adamson focuses on what ESG means for the shipping and maritime industry. 

We need to start talking about the Blue Economy and what opportunities lay there instead of the segments of everything like we do today. Once we change our mindset, that’s when we can become a sustainable industry.

Kate underlines that we need to pivot. We do that by

  • Purpose/Values
  • Interdependence
  • Openness
  • Trust

There are so many titbits in this episode. It’s worth...

https://shippingpodcast.com/194-kate-d-adamson-blue-futurist-futurenautics/

American Eagle’s Quiet Platforms partners with global shipper Pitney Bowes

American Eagle store

Just a few days after it was one of the lone bright spots in American Eagle Outfitters’ Q1 2022 earnings report, the retailer’s logistics platform continues to make moves.

Quiet Platforms, the outfitter’s delivery and fulfillment subsidiary, on Tuesday announced a collaboration with global shipper Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI) to bring value-added carrier services to its network, an open-sharing platform that’s aiming to become the “anti-Amazon.”  The growing platform boasts clients such as Steve...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/american-eagles-quiet-platforms-partners-with-global-shipper-pitney-bowes

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