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UPS | June 29, 2020

UPS will reduce the peak surcharge on air shipments from mainland China to the U.S., according to a notice on UPS' website. The lower surcharge amount takes effect Sunday and remains in place until further notice.The reductions range from 22 cents per pound to 45 cents per pound as outlined in the table below. UPS implemented surcharges on shipments from China and Hong Kong starting April 5, citing "increased demand for air cargo capacity and the increased costs to maintain servic...

STAT Times | March 17, 2020

As part of a strategic initiative to keep customer production lines moving around the world during the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, global logistics company CEVA Logistics has contracted a range of 86 freighter aircraft to deliver parts and supplies to its customers. With more than 58 flights already completed, the company has been operating on behalf of customers in the automotive, aerospace, computer and hi-tech electronics sectors. The charters have been designed to prevent production lin...

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Redwood Logistics | June 03, 2021

Redwood Logistics, a leading logistics platform company, headquartered in Chicago, today announced the company had acquired both Skipjack Supply Chain (Skipjack) and Proactive Global Logistics (PGL) to launch Redwood Parcel, a comprehensive, integrated parcel solution leveraging Skipjack’s leading parcel technology and PGL’s deep parcel expertise. Redwood Parcel is the newest offering in Redwood’s revolutionary logistics and technology delivery model called LPaaS (Logistics Pla...

Tesla | March 31, 2020

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the automaker has ventilators and it is going to use its logistic network to deliver them to hospitals for free. Several hospitals in the US are finding themselves in need of ventilators to help save patients who are more badly affected by the coronavirus. In previous comments over the last month, Musk has been skeptical that there’s going to be a need for more ventilators. The CEO believes that we “may have passed the inflection point for US cases ...