Ryder Acquires Last-Mile Delivery Carrier MXD Group
Ryder System Inc. is acquiring all of the outstanding equity of MXD Group, an e-commerce fulfillment provider, with its North American network of facilities, including last-mile capabilities.
April 3, 2018China Vows to Respond to US Tariffs With ‘Same Scale, Intensity’
China will respond to any tariffs imposed by the U.S. against alleged violations of intellectual property rights with the same proportion, scale and intensity, said its U.S. ambassador Cui Tiankai.
April 3, 2018Dow Drops More Than 400 Points After Being Down 700 as Trade-War Fears Intensify
Stock prices opened the second quarter with another sharp decline April 2 as investors grew increasingly worried about the rising U.S. trade dispute with China and a flurry of problems hammering the nation’s marquee technology firms.
April 3, 2018Russian Air Cargo Carrier Adding Service to Ohio Airport
Russia-based AirBridgeCargo Airlines will become the fifth international air cargo freighter operator at Rickenbacker Airport this week when it launches weekly scheduled flights April 5.
April 2, 2018The Future of Freight: What's Your Vision?
How will technology and innovation change the way freight is transported? Tell us what you think the future will be like and we could feature your ideas in an upcoming edition of Transport Topics.
April 2, 2018On-Demand Shipping Firm Shyp Calls It Quits
Shyp, a Silicon Valley packaging and delivery startup that promised to make shipping almost anything anywhere around the world as easy as two taps on a smartphone, has shut down after four years in business.
April 2, 2018UPS Pilots Complain About Shortage of Airplanes
UPS Inc. already was in trouble with Wall Street over a long-term investment plan to cope with soaring e-commerce. Now the company is clashing with its pilots union because of a short-term fix for the same challenge.
April 2, 2018Trump Warns He'll Dump NAFTA if Mexico Doesn't Stop Drug Flows
President Donald Trump threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement if Mexico doesn’t stop people and drugs from flowing into the United States from Central America.
April 2, 2018Trump: The Washington Post Should Register as Lobbyist Over Amazon’s Postal ‘Scam’
President Donald Trump charged March 31 that The Washington Post, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, should register as a lobbyist, insinuating that it abetted his other company, Amazon, in pulling off a U.S. Postal Service “scam” to deliver its packages at a loss.
April 2, 2018How Amazon Is Helping the US Postal Service, Despite What Trump Thinks
The Amazon blame game took another turn on March 29, when President Donald Trump spun the wheel back around to the U.S. Postal Service. Amazon.com Inc. is a convenient scapegoat for just about any issue. The mail is no different.
March 30, 2018