16-07-18

DHL Express orders 14 B777 freighters to support cross-border e-commerce growth

DHL Express has placed an order for 14 newBoeing 777 freighters to support strong growth in its cross-border e-commerce business. read more

UPS reaches tentative agreement with union on new contract for Freight division workers

16-07-18

United Parcel Service (UPS) has reached a tentative agreement with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters labour union on a new, five-year contract for around 11,000 workers employed in its less-than-truckload Freight division. read more

GLS expands FlexDelivery service to Ireland

16-07-18

GLS has announced the expansion of its FlexDelivery service to Ireland's domestic e-commerce market. read more

PostNL now delivers food in the mornings

PostNL adds morning deliveries for food, to invest €40 million in two sorting centres in Belgium

16-07-18

PostNL is expanding its food deliveries to the morning hours and plans to build two new high-tech sorting centres in Belgium by 2020 with an overall investment of around €40 million. read more

Russian Post grows international parcels volumes by 30% in H1 2018

13-07-18

Russian Post grew its international parcel volumes by nearly 30% in the first half of 2018 to over 191 million shipments and has started selling groceries and other items at selected post offices as the government passed a law to transform the postal operator into a joint stock company 100% owned by the state. read more

Amazon tech unit awarded patent for warehouse device

13-07-18

Amazon tech unit, Amazon Technologies Inc., was last week awarded a patent for a Mobile Configurable Conveyor Component, according to specialised publication, Robotics Business Review, which quoted a posting by the US Patent & Trademark Office. read more

UPS extends Thailand pick-up cut-off times for exports, reduces transit time for imports

13-07-18

UPS has announced extended pick-up cut-off times for export shipments from Thailand to Asia, Europe and the US and transit time improvements for imports and exports to give businesses a wider production window and flexibility to fulfil last-minute orders and to capture speed-to-market. read more

CollectPlus launches 'print in store for returns' using Amazon Alexa

13-07-18

CollectPlus, the UK’s largest independent store-based delivery and returns service, has rolled out its Print in Store service to Returns customers, incorporating voice activation technology. read more

German e-commerce grows over 11% in second quarter

12-07-18

Online retailing remained the main growth driver in the German interactive retail sector in the first half of this year, with online sales growing over 11% in the second quarter of 2018, according to figures released by interactive trading association Bevh. read more

Suning Logistics in strategic partnership to accelerate self-driving technology

12-07-18

China's Suning Logistics, a subsidiary of Suning Holdings group, has signed a strategic partnership with tech giant Baidu Apollo to accelerate the commercial application of self-driving technology which could see the mass production of unmanned delivery vehicles as early as 2020. read more

Austrian Post invests €50 million in a new parcel sorting centre in Lower Austria

12-07-18

Austrian Post is investing €50 million in a new parcel sorting centre in Hagenbrunn, Lower Austria, to handle the rising volumes boosted by the booming online trade, with more than 300 new jobs to be created at the new location. read more

European Commission orders Spain to recover €167 million from state-owned postal operator Correos

12-07-18

The European Commission (EC) has ordered that Spain recover around €167 million from Correos, the Brussels-based executive having found that the state-owned postal operator was “overcompensated” for the delivery of its universal postal service obligation between 2004 and 2010, and also benefited from incompatible tax exemptions. read more

German CEP volumes grow over 6% in 2017, exceeding 3.3 billion items

11-07-18

The German courier express and parcel (CEP) market grew at solid single-digit rates last year, driven again by a dynamic increase of nearly 10% in B2C deliveries, and similar growth is predicted for 2018 and beyond, according to a new study. read more