last-mile delivery

Last month, FedEx (NYSE: FDX), Walmart (NYSE: WMT), XPO (NYSE: XPO), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Instacart, and U.S. military veterans came together to form the FRONTdoor Collective (FDC), a network of franchised delivery service partners (DSPs) to help businesses manage the growing demand for last-mile...

The Surface Transportation Board is seeking comments from shippers, carriers, and others on first-mile/last-mile (FMLM) service, which occurs when railcars are moved between a local railroad serving yard and a shipper or receiver facility. The federal agency wants to know whether it should examine...

AxleHire is beefing up its East Coast presence. The last-mile delivery provider on Wednesday announced it was adding facilities in Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia to join its New York City center in the tri-state region. The news comes on the heels of the company's Midwest expansion and the...

Founder and CEO Bill Catania on solving for capacity, price discovery and visibility OneRail, the last-mile software-as-a-service platform that connects point-of-sale order information directly to a network of 7.5 million couriers, announced Tuesday morning that it had raised a $9 million Series A...

They say every company is now a technology company. That modern adage of the business world has proved profitable for its followers as e-commerce has swept the globe over the past few years. But that increased order volume has contributed to the sister trend of supply chain backups, a contemporary...

E-commerce is continuing its strong performance in 2021, but the companies responsible for getting those packages to consumer doorsteps continue to be plagued by challenges, including a lack of drivers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said courier jobs climbed to 1,006,400 on a seasonal basis in...

E-commerce sales of furniture and home furnishings increased 49% year-over-year in Q1 of this year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. But big and bulky items still have a last-mile logistics problem — they are just difficult for traditional carriers to handle. ShipStation, a web-based e-...

Point of Sale is sponsored by ArcBest. ArcBest is more than logistics. Whatever you do, whatever you ship, ArcBest makes it easier for you to do business. ArcBest combines reliable capacity, innovative technology and trusted relationships to take the complexity out of your supply chain and keep...

Fusion Logistics Inc. recently laid off 303 employees and permanently closed several Texas facilities, according to a notice sent to state officials Monday.  The affected employees worked at locations in Houston, as well as the cities of Farmers Branch, Garland, Coppell and Fort Worth. The...

Flat-rate shipping firm Sendle has announced a partnership with GLS Group to handle last-mile parcel deliveries in eight Western states. GLS offers parcel, less-than-truckload and truckload transportation solutions in Europe and the Western U.S. The agreement will enable e-commerce sellers to send...

Retailers and other online sellers reliant on last-mile delivery providers to ensure consumers receive their orders in a timely and safe manner are increasingly finding new options popping up – from established companies that specialize in last-mile delivery to the Uber driver using a third-party...

Last-mile logistics services provider DeliverEnd is partnering with contactless shopping company Perfit to establish an end-to-end, same-day local delivery solution for online shoppers. The partnership will combine DeliverEnd's scalable last-mile delivery solutions and driver networks with Perfit's...

In an increasingly competitive space, Cowen Equity Research has initiated coverage of Electric Last Mile Systems (ELMS) with an outperform rating, setting a per-share price target of $14. ELMS (NASDAQ: ELMS) closed Thursday at $9.15, down 6% from the open. The research firm said it was "impressed...

GoFor and Bringg have announced a partnership that will utilize GoFor's marketplace for last-mile, on-demand and same-day delivery and logistics alongside Bringg's delivery and fulfillment cloud platform to increase delivery capacity, coverage and customer experience on a global scale. Using GoFor...

Shares of Electric Last Mile Systems (NASDAQ: ELMS) jumped as much as 10% in early morning trading on Monday after the electric vehicle maker made its public trading debut following its merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Forum Merger III Corp.   Despite the early jump, though,...