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2020 holiday shopping season dubbed most environmentally friendly yet

A Prologis and MIT study said that 2020 was the most environmentally friendly holiday season yet.

A stay-at-home economy helped 2020 deliver the “most environmentally friendly holiday season yet,” according to a Prologis and MIT special report released Thursday. 

Based on consumer behaviors, in-person shopping was compared to e-commerce to find differences in environmental impacts. The study said that one full standard delivery van can replace over 100 individual car trips to the store.

During the holiday season each year, companies scramble to keep up with peak demands for shipping and...

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Vaccine distribution, peak-season climax spawn parcel delivery storm

A tumultuous year for the parcel-delivery business has been taken to another level as parcel shippers find themselves competing with the most precious of cargoes for peak holiday season air and surface capacity. 

To the amazement of many, the first of what are expected to be several vaccines to crush the novel coronavirus has been approved by federal regulators and shipped out before the end of 2020. The timing of these extraordinary developments has an unintended consequence in that it...

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Cargojet adds capacity for DHL to meet e-commerce surge

A white jet with a blue tail and the name Cargojet on its side has wheels down as it flies low to start landing.

Canadian for-hire carrier Cargojet Inc. (TSX: CJT) has increased its workload for DHL Express, servicing three additional international routes with Boeing 767-300 freighters to meet demand for e-commerce deliveries, the company announced Tuesday. 

Toronto-based Cargojet will fly packages between Cargojet’s hub in Hamilton, Canada, and the DHL Express hub in Cincinnati, continuing to Monterrey, Mexico, and DHL’s East Midlands hub in the United Kingdom.

The all-cargo carrier initially launched the...

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E-commerce explodes into holiday shipping season

Men roll big pallets into the illuminated cargo bay of a big airplane at night.

Peak season e-commerce sales, turbocharged by an accelerated shift to online buying as consumers shy away from crowded stores during a pandemic, are expected to hit all-time highs this year, putting additional pressure on express delivery networks.

Retail and logistics analysts say the unprecedented level of digital commerce has pulled forward 10 years of expected growth in the span of six months. 

The flood of new orders, especially early in the coronavirus crisis when so many stores were...

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ShipHero CEO: E-comm shippers still scrambling for tech, fulfillment solutions

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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Ingram Micro executive calls for new approach to logistics warehouse design (with video)

 The logistics warehouse of the future will be heavily automated, purpose-built for e-commerce and ready for tenants to “plug in” and go live almost immediately, a top executive for distribution giant Ingram Micro said Tuesday.

Keynoting FreightWaves’ daylong webinar on the future of logistics warehousing, Ken Beyer, executive vice president and president of commerce and life cycle services for the Irvine, California-based company, said developers must focus on building design and construction...

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Pitney Bowes pushes `flat’ peak delivery surcharges

Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), which provides global parcel consolidation services, will impose a peak season surcharge not exceeding $1.50 per parcel on holiday traffic tendered for delivery.

The surcharge will apply to all domestic and cross-border parcel shipments covering both forward shipments and returns, the Stamford, Connecticut-based company said late Thursday. The “specific timing and rate of adjustment will be based on each client’s profile and portfolio of services,” the company said...

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FedEx’s peak shipping surcharges go in different direction than UPS

FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) disclosed its upcoming peak shipping season surcharges on Tuesday, and tweaked its surcharge language in an effort to set it apart from its chief rival, UPS Inc. (NYSE:UPS).

The FedEx surcharges will apply to customers that shipped more than 35,000 packages via FedEx Express and FedEx Ground in any week covering two separate periods: Oct. 5-18 and Nov. 16-29. The first FedEx surcharge will apply between Nov. 2 and Dec. 13 for the volumes shipped during the October period....

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USPS’ holiday surcharges may be lump of coal for merchants

The first rate increase of the Louis DeJoy era as postmaster general could end up hitting millions of merchants right between the eyes during the busiest time of the year. However, the increases could be stocking stuffers for the agency’s largest parcel users. 

With no fanfare — and subsumed by the extraordinary election-year chaos swirling around the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) — the agency on Friday afternoon announced a series of proposed peak holiday season surcharges on its biggest parcel...

https://www.freightwaves.com/usps-holiday-surcharges-may-be-lump-of-coal-for-merchants

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