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Shipping giant UPS struggled with shifting consumer demands and rising costs, resulting in an earnings dip during the first three months of 2024.

Ann Marie Jonkman has seen it all in her 20+ year career. We asked her to share her experience as a woman thriving in a predominantly male industry.

The 2023 U.S. Parcel Shipping Index is out, and it shows Amazon leading the pack in a changing industry landscape.

The new "State of Transportation" report reveals volatile weather, sustainability, and other factors are impacting overall performance.

Peerless Research Group released its 40th annual salary survey of supply chain professionals. Check out all the findings--and a few surprises.

FedEx and UPS have announced additional delivery charges for 82 zip codes, including major cities like New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

The creation of distribution microhubs around New York could significantly ease traffic and reduce environmental impact.

UPS lands a major contract as it replaced FedEx as USPS's primary air cargo provider.

With a total capital raise approaching $13 million, Irvine, Calif.-based ZUUM Transportation Inc., has its sights set on spurring on digital transformation within logistics to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global supply chains, which have, in many ways, seen businesses on the search for new ways to keep operations running.

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continuing to change myriad aspects of everyday life, holiday season shopping is clearly not an exception, according to the 2020 U.S. Retail Holiday Trends Guide, which was issued this week by Los Angeles-based industrial real estate firm CBRE. The wide-ranging report addresses various ways in which the 2020 holiday shopping season will be different from any other.

Findings for the survey were based on feedback from 1,600 United States-based consumers. The wide-ranging survey is the fourth one Convey has released, going back to 2017, and its findings can be viewed, as it was conducted and released over the course of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which Convey said has created a whole new set of challenges for retailers to win customers and also meet seasonal demands amid a global pandemic.

Forward Air officials said that the purchase price is $2.25 million, with Value Logistics generating roughly $6 million in annual revenues. The transaction, which Forward Air said will be funded from cash on hand, will be made official later this month.

A research report pointing to ways in which the strategy can impact industrial site selection on various fronts. The CBRE research report, entitled “Changing Patterns of Trade Benefit U.S. Industrial Real Estate,” explained that while imports from Asia have historically entered the U.S. through West Coast ports, in recent years there has been an increase in companies adopting a regional distribution model with warehouses near growing population centers for quicker deliveries, as well as lower domestic transportation costs.

The report, entitled “Rising Tide: The Rapid Growth of E-Commerce Logistics, 3PL Solutions, Last-Mile Delivery, and the Dominance of Amazon,” addresses United States e-commerce logistics growth, including e-commerce fulfillment and last-mile delivery, third-party logistics provider alternatives to Amazon, and Amazon’s leading market position, among other related topics.

American Eagle Outfitters supply chain leader talks about his career, the future of retail fulfillment and how businesses can survive COVID and the shift to omni-channel delivery.