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...The lawyers at FedEx Express joined forces with other parts of the business in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa to enable buyers to manage their deliveries through messaging service WhatsApp....
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...This time last year, the pandemic surge in online shopping, a labour shortage as a result of sick or quarantined workers and one of the biggest snowstorms in the north-east in years combined to overwhelm...
...Some airlines have switched to flying cargo and dedicated air freight companies such as FedEx and DHL have picked up some of the slack....
...The letter, seen by the Financial Times and first reported by Reuters, was signed by the largest US carriers as well as the air freight arms of two of the biggest logistics groups, UPS and FedEx....
...FedEx said it would make changes allowing it to double the volume of cargo moving out of ports at night....
...Uber’s fourth-quarter net income of $892mn benefited from a $1.4bn pre-tax windfall from its investments in autonomous vehicle company Aurora and south-east Asian app Grab....
...The looming jump in the numbers of doses being shipped and administered is likely to put pressure on freight carriers, health departments and hospitals....
...You might cynically posit that clearing logjams is of only tangential interest to the world’s alliances of shipping companies, given that freight rates have tripled....
...The White House said it had secured pledges from private sector heavyweights such as Walmart, UPS and FedEx to extend their working hours....
...The road freight app and the online recruitment group both listed in New York last month. They are banned from signing up new users during the investigations....
...Jope said the decision to pull out of the West Bank and East Jerusalem had been made “by Ben & Jerry’s and its independent board”, a body whose role was enshrined when Unilever acquired the dessert brand...
...FedEx, another US carrier, is also moving to electrify. But Roxo, the courier’s under-development delivery robot, is not yet welcome everywhere....
...Mr Robinson previously led Uber’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, while Mr Izmailov, its operations chief, previously ran Uber’s business in Russia....
...Here’s a chart which many haven’t picked up on though, Singapore Air Cargo -- which measures air freight carried in millions of kilos through the trade centre -- contracted over January to levels not seen...
...UPS and its rival FedEx face growing competition from Amazon, as the ecommerce giant has sought to expand its shipping operations on the ground and in the air in an effort to cut freight costs and speed...
...However, UPS and its rival FedEx face growing competition from Amazon’s freight delivery service....
...The New York-based US Court of International Trade issued a temporary order on Friday banning American customs agents from collecting duties from PrimeSource Building Products Inc, after the company filed...
...(FT) FedEx cuts guidance FedEx cut its annual earnings guidance for the second time in three months as a weaker economy, higher costs and the loss of an Amazon delivery deal knocked its latest quarterly...
...Amazon Air took the wind out of United Parcel Service and FedEx shares on Tuesday, as Morgan Stanley warned that investors have yet to fully account for growing competition from the ecommerce giant’s freight...
...Shares of FedEx, which has the biggest weighting in the index, have lost more than 17 per cent since the start of the month, in part due to concerns about Amazon Air, the ecommerce giant’s in-house freight...
...Losses, excluding a paper gain from the sale of businesses in Russia and south-east Asia, narrowed to $3.3bn from $4.5bn in 2017....
...The yearly comparison excludes south-east Asia and Russia, two markets that Uber exited in 2018. Compared with the third quarter, bookings were up 11 per cent....
...He also pulled out of money-losing wars for dominance in far-flung regions like Russia and south-east Asia....
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