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UPS to eliminate 20K jobs as Amazon decoupling accelerates

UPS plans to shed about 20,000 front-line positions in 2025 as it manages the decline in unprofitable business from Amazon and a huge restructuring of its delivery network, executives said Tuesday during a first-quarter earnings briefing.

The integrated parcel and logistics giant in January reached an agreement to reduce Amazon volumes in its network by more than 50% by June 2026. Outbound deliveries from Amazon fulfillment centers are not profitable compared to returns and outbound volumes from...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-to-eliminate-20k-jobs-as-amazon-decoupling-accelerates

UPS inks $1.6 billion deal for Canadian health care logistics provider

UPS plans to acquire Andlauer Healthcare Group Inc., a Canada-based provider of cold chain logistics services for the health care sector, in an all-cash transaction for $1.6 billion, the company announced on Thursday.

UPS (NYSE: UPS), like global integrated shipping rivals FedEx and DHL, has targeted health care logistics as a primary area for growth because specialized storage and transport requirements for pharmaceuticals and biopharma products command high margins. The transaction comes on...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-inks-1-6-billion-deal-for-canadian-health-care-logistics-provider

SCD: UPS implementa cierres temporales de instalaciones en medio de una revisión de la red

INMERSIÓN EN LA CADENA DE SUMINISTRO informa:UPS está cerrando temporalmente varias instalaciones en EE. UU. para implementar actualizaciones para su revisión de la “Red del Futuro”.Más de 1,600 empleados de UPS se han visto afectados o se verán afectados por cierres totales y parciales de instalaciones en Maryland, California, Colorado y Oklahoma, según los avisos […]

Esta entrada SCD: UPS implementa cierres temporales de instalaciones en medio de una revisión de la red Aparece primero en FullAv...

https://fullavantenews.com/scd-ups-implementa-cierres-temporales-de-instalaciones-en-medio-de-una-revision-de-la-red/?lang=es

Cross-Docking + Crowdsourcing: Una solución ideal para la entrega de artículos grandes y voluminosos

La última milla es, famosamente, la parte más costosa y desafiante de la cadena de suministro, y posiblemente la más importante. Gartner descubrió que los clientes tienen un 21% más de probabilidades de volver a comprar si están satisfechos solo con el aspecto logístico de la última milla de su...

https://logistica360.pe/cross-docking-crowdsourcing-una-solucion-ideal-para-la-entrega-de-articulos-grandes-y-voluminosos/

La relocalización y la sostenibilidad están cambiando la visión logística de las empresas

Las tendencias globales de sostenibilidad incentiva una reconfiguración global de las cadenas de suministro, haciendo que las compañías busquen nuevos proveedores, lo que representa una oportunidad de desarrollo para los países en los que se implementan estas cadenas de logística.

https://logistica360.pe/la-relocalizacion-y-la-sostenibilidad-estan-cambiando-la-vision-logistica-de-las-empresas/

FedEx drops ‘peak’ from surcharge vocabulary

FedEx Corp. has made it official: It is dropping the word peak from its description of delivery surcharges and replacing it with the word demand.

Effective Sept. 4, “any reference to ‘peak’ in a surcharge name will be replaced with and rebranded as “demand,” the company (NYSE: FDX) said in a notice on its website. The notice said that “during times of elevated volumes, high demand for capacity, and increased operating costs across our network, FedEx will implement demand surcharges. Demand...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fedex-drops-peak-from-surcharge-vocabulary

Parcel market dilemma: Excess capacity with stagnant demand

By Satish Jindel

The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.

The parcel market is facing a supply-demand imbalance of the type and magnitude not experienced in the past 30 years or longer. Given the stagnant demand and no new initiative on the horizon to encourage consumers to spend more money on goods, supply will exceed demand for the next three or more years.

It started with the sudden COVID-19...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/parcel-market-dilemma-excess-capacity-with-stagnant-demand

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