UPS announces peak surcharges on certain domestic shipments starting Sunday. The surcharges will apply to Ground Residential and SurePost packages if a shipper's volume the prior week was more than 25,000 packages greater than the shipper's average daily volume in February. The surcharge is $0.30 per package. UPS will also impose a large parcel surcharge of $31.45 per package. UPS will also impose a surcharge of $31.45 per package on large parcels.UPS defines large package as one wi...
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As the U.S.-China trade war drags into its 16th month and continues to disrupt supply chains, more than one-quarter of multinational firms have not made contingency plans, showed a survey from a subsidiary of courier giant DHL. The survey here by DHL Resilience360, a supply chain risk management software platform under Deutsche Post AG's courier unit, included 267 anonymous responses from supply chain executives across industries including healthcare, automotive and consumer. Over half of re...
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Blockchain is a technology that many people quickly associate with cryptocurrency. Although it initially gained recognition that way, the potential uses for blockchain span much further. More specifically, the technology could bring more trust to the supply chain, improving the reputations of companies that make merchandise available for sale. Counterfeit merchandise collectively represents substantial losses for many industries. As a start, about 10% of all luxury goods sold each year are fakes...
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Alaska Cargo and Cold Storage, LLC (ACCS) and the State of Alaska executed a 55-year lease arrangement at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (ANC), denoting a significant achievement in the advancement of a more than 700,000-square-foot, atmosphere controlled stockroom office. With 32.5 million cubic feet of limit, the office will furnish ANC with a basic piece of infrastructure at the world's 6th busiest cargo airport.
“This project will improve shipping to and...
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Logistics supply chain startup Shipwell announced that it has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round led by Georgian Partners. Fifth Wall, Global Founders Capital, BoxGroup and Aspect Ventures also participated, with the funding round one of the largest in Austin, Texas this year. Shipwell — an intelligent supply chain management solution for shippers, third-party logistics and carriers — has raised $47 million total in funding. It plans to expand employee head count, and ope...
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Aberdeen announced Aberdeen Behavioral Technographics – the industry’s first install (technographic) data that actively measures technology in use. Legacy technographic data only provides a single yes/no estimate as to whether a company uses a specific technology. Aberdeen Behavioral Technographics is the first to measure technology usage down to company location, number of users and pains and priorities of the usage. In numerous tests, Aberdeen Behavioral Technographics has proven t...
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