A study commissioned by e-commerce technology provider Doddle, based on a survey of e-commerce retail businesses across five European markets – the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy – reveals an acute headache for online merchants. More than half (57%) of respondents described returns as...

The inland port on the western edge of Manchester will provide a localised logistics service, with the port of Liverpool looking to entice mainline operators to offer direct calls or feeder services from Europe into north-west England. It would reduce the truck miles for containers delivered to Feli...

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Under its “Reassurance Plan”, Cainiao has integrated nearly 3,600 trailer lines from eastern China and other regions to Shanghai port, ensuring merchants can export goods normally. Cainiao has also chartered flights and ships, with land-to-water and land-to-rail transfers also offered to exporte...

Cargolux has resumed some flights into Shanghai in the past two weeks, following government authorisation for some manufacturing to restart, but is offering few frequencies. “We need to build up slowly again,” CEO Richard Forson told Logistic-News. “It all depends on the availability of ma...

Activities at the port have been severely disrupted over the past couple of months, owing to political and economic crises and the island nation has enforced a state of emergency. It has reportedly given “shoot-on-sight” orders to the military and police, empowered them to arrest, without w...

The blanking strategies by the alliances to mitigate the impact of the Covid lockdowns in China will further extend cargo lead times, particularly to North Europe. The supply chain platform’s data shows that between weeks 17 to 23, THE Alliance will blank 33% of its scheduled sailings from Asia, t...

DHL claimed the Dorabot can double the efficiency of even its most productive workers. “What we’re going up against is a human’s ability to sort into bags – anywhere from 50-75 bags,” said a member of DHL Americas. “We’ve seen anywhere from 200 packages an hour to 500, and then th...

The latest numbers on the manufacturing sector show a broad decline in momentum – although it remains in growth mode, unlike the economy overall. US GDP shrank 1.4% year on year in the first quarter, a sharp reversal from last year when the economy expanded 5.7%, the fastest full-year clip since 1...

Mr Wilkerson has 14 years of leadership experience in brokerage operations and joined XPO in 2012 to spearhead the growth of its flagship truck brokerage hub in Charlotte. He was subsequently promoted to regional VP and then president of the North American brokerage business. In 2020, he was named p...