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...The company also announced it would explore “strategic alternatives” for its acquisition of Coyote, a truckload brokerage business, which made up 38 per cent of the revenue decline in the company’s supply...
...That UPS results are seen as a bellwether of the US economy is no surprise. It delivers about a quarter of American parcels....
...One thing to start: The UK Insolvency Service has asked the High Court to ban Lex Greensill from running companies for up to 15 years after investigating the 2021 collapse of his eponymous supply chain finance...
...Competitors have echoed that concern, with Mike Parra, chief executive of DHL’s Americas business, saying that other parcel delivery services would not be able to pick up the slack....
...Delta is also trying to reduce the time aircraft are out of service for maintenance....
...Think defence budgets increasing, green investments, energy independence, industrial policy and the shortening of supply chains....
...UPS, the parcel delivery group, held a job fair in Long Island, New York this month....
...United Services Institute....
...The three largest carriers have pulled out of dozens of cities since the start of the pandemic and 14 of them, such as Dubuque in Iowa, have lost all scheduled air service....
...Temperatures reached above 43C in the interior of California on Tuesday and was set to break records in many locations before gradually decreasing later in the week, according to the National Weather Service...
...Project Verte, an ecommerce supply chain company....
...United Airlines said Washington’s 5G rollout plan would have “a devastating impact”, affecting an estimated 1.25m of its passengers and 15,000 flights a year while disrupting an already fragile supply chain...
...the shipping capacity of America’s two biggest delivery groups....
...If the proposal to separate the asset management business proceeds, it will represent the most radical of a series of efforts to divide Brookfield’s sprawling balance sheet into smaller parcels....
...Despite such successes, there are concerns that the dominant auction houses may have exhausted supply....
...Con Edison said it would apply the full value of its contracted buying programmes to help reduce supply costs this month by about 9 cents a kWh, responding to a request from the New York Public Service Commission...
...“There may be isolated shortages of goods and services in the coming months. But there is an ample supply of goods....
...Airlines for America, an industry lobbying group, warned of “chaos” for passengers and “incalculable disruptions” to supply chains....
...The range of industries affected by the logistics crunch is growing with manufacturers of computers, furniture and cars all struggling to source key supplies quickly enough....
...“We need these types of collaborative robotics to cope with the increase in activity required in the supply chain,” said Oscar De Bok, chief executive of DHL Supply Chain....
...“This is one of the most exciting themes we are pursuing in our real estate business globally,” said Nadeem Meghji, head of real estate for Blackstone Americas....
...Three-generation households are more common in Asia and Africa than the rest of the world, according to the United Nations....
...After paying for an upgraded power supply, UPS decided on a new approach....
...Having sold a portion of energy production in advance, the outages meant “the company had to purchase these volumes to fulfil its supply obligations” at prices of up to $9,000 a MWh....
...the United States and the world”....
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