By Engineering Innovation ·
March 9, 2023
In this Leader’s Q&A, Engineering Innovation CEO Don Caddy discusses the current challenges facing the parcel handling industry and how automation can create major operational efficiencies.
By MMH Staff ·
March 1, 2023
Schmidt looks to maintain leadership roles in airport, parcel and minerals and mining, while strengthing e-commerce and logistics.
By Jeff Berman ·
October 31, 2022
For Atlanta-based Roadie, an on-the-way delivery service with the nation’s largest local same-day footprint, and subsidiary of UPS, there is always a heightened focus on final-, or last-, mile logistics. That is especially true at this time of the year, to be sure. LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently caught up with Roadie Senior Marketing Manager Will Walker to learn about how the company approaches the busiest time of the year.
By Jeff Berman ·
October 19, 2022
GEODIS officials said that Need It Now Delivers operates as an expansive domestic road freight network with over 65 company locations and 300 distribution points, providing strong national coverage, particularly in the eastern U.S. The acquisition significantly expands GEODIS’s U.S. presence in the areas of contract logistics and final mile delivery and strengthens its end-to-end freight network domestically and internationally.
WHITE PAPER
By SCMR Staff ·
August 23, 2022
Read this new White Paper to understand the Five Top Trends - from increased cross-border ecommerce to final-mile capacity constraints – and specific steps you can take to meet the challenges, improve flexibility and sustainability, and increase sales.
By MMH Staff ·
June 22, 2022
A ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the opening of the new, Leed GOLD certified headquarters built to support the company’s continued North American growth
By Jeff Berman ·
April 20, 2022
The new edition of the Cowen/AFS Freight Index, which was recently released by New York-based investment firm Cowen Inc. and Shreveport, La.-based 3PL and freight audit and payment company AFS Logistics LLC, highlighted how rising fuel prices are having a significant impact on both parcel and LTL (Less-than-Truckload) rates, whereas things are somewhat lessening on the truckload side.
By MMH Staff ·
March 30, 2022
To meet the challenges of parcel processing, Fives sets up MARS (Mobile Autonomous Robot for Safe Sorting) project, an innovative sorting system.
By Jeff Berman ·
March 3, 2022
Entitled Beon, TI said that this new platform gives shippers and carriers a single point of access to access both TI’s and Atlanta-based Nolan Transportation Group’s (NTG) logistics network and services, “from port to porch.”
By MMH Staff ·
February 10, 2022
With around 1,200 employees, Siemens Logistics mail and parcel business generates annual revenue of about €500 million.
By Jeff Berman ·
February 9, 2022
Bringg officials said that the objective of this acquisition is to accelerate Bringg’s penetration in the Salesforce ecosystem by extending Zenkraft’s parcel, return and post purchase use cases with an on-demand delivery network of hundreds of providers.
By Jeff Berman ·
September 2, 2021
Orlando-based OneRail, a provider of final mile delivery services for enterprise shippers via a delivery fulfillment SaaS platform, recently announced it closed a $9 million Series A investment, bringing its total capital raise, to date, to $21.5 million.
By Jeff Berman ·
January 13, 2021
Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman and Johnathan Foster, principal consultant, at Proxima, a strategic team of procurement specialists with more than 25 years of consultation and supply chain experience, talked about various topics, including the many moving logistics parts of the ongoing distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, supply chain disruption, and the cold chain, among other topics.
By MMH Staff ·
January 13, 2021
Hytrol names Fort Smith, Ark., as site of second facility focused on manufacturing its parcel product line
By Jeff Berman ·
November 9, 2020
Entitled the ShipMatrix 1st Class Parcel Service, the firm said that this offering is geared towards retail and e-commerce shippers that have been “capped” by the parcel duopoly of FedEx and UPS for the 2020 peak season. Some of the key aspects of this offering, according to ShipMatrix, include: no limit on parcel volume; no peak season surcharges; and an automatic money-back guarantee on packages that are not delivered within five days.