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Anxiety Grows as UPS Strike Deadline Nears
UPS on July 11 pushed to Aug. 8 the release date for its second-quarter financial report, a week after its labor contract with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is set to expire.
Amazon Prime Day Drives All Online Sales Up 6.1%
U.S. shoppers spent $12.7 billion online during Amazon.com Inc.’s 48-hour Prime Day, up 6.1% from a year ago but short of estimates for 9.5% growth, according to Adobe Inc.
Delta Air Lines’ cargo revenue falls $100M in past year
Delta Air Lines delivered sharply lower cargo revenue in the second quarter, reflecting the prolonged downturn in shipping demand that has engulfed all air logistics providers, even as overall revenue and profits soared to…
Daimler Cites Flexibility as Key to Zero-Emission Future
BOSTON — Daimler Truck CEO Martin Daum said flexibility is the key to his company’s preparation for the zero-emission future that is broadly envisioned for trucking.
Uber Freight lays off as many as 50 brokerage employees
Uber Freight has implemented layoffs in its legacy digital brokerage operations in the second round of cuts this year. A spokesman for Uber Freight (NYSE: UBER) on Thursday confirmed the layoffs, which sources said totaled…
Carload traffic grows at ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert
While intermodal shipments to the Canadian ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert have stalled since the start of a strike on July 1, coal and grain movements have increased significantly amid unrelated mitigating factors,…
Dockworkers Take On South Carolina’s Governor in Labor Fight
Dockworkers and the governor in South Carolina, the state with the lowest percentage of unionized workers, are digging in their heels over a labor dispute.
How To Monetize Food Waste While Improving the Planet
By Gary Schuler, Founder and President of GTF Technologies Over one-third of the world’s food, or 1.3 billion tons, is wasted every year. More than 65% of that loss occurs at the production, postharvest handling, and storage…
M&S milk suppliers to use new green fertiliser range
Farmers Weekly Dairy producers supplying M&S will be among the first to use a new innovative green fertiliser range to help deliver its net-zero goals. The retailer has agreed an exclusive partnership with Bartholomews…
Land Use Framework won’t be ‘communist’, says Defra minister
Farmers Weekly Farming minister Mark Spencer has said he doesn’t want the Land Use Framework (LUF) for England to be a “communist” document which dictates what farmers can do with their land. Former government food tsar Henry…
