Freight

Amazon has spent more than a decade automating its logistics network. The company has already deployed more than 1 million robots across its operations, and its recent acquisitions have steadily ...

Amazon has expanded its free returns program to 10,000-plus U.S. drop-off points. The eCommerce giant announced Wednesday (March 25) that this expansion means that 80% of its U.S. customers now have ...

Amazon has acquired RIVR, a company that uses physical artificial intelligence and wheeled-legged robots to automate doorstep delivery. RIVR CEO and Co-Founder Marko Bjelonic announced the acquisition in a Thursday (March ...

In today’s period of global turmoil, the logistics sector is increasingly just trying to get itself, as an industry, from point A to point B, much less the millions of ...

Paythru, a payments orchestration platform focused on electric vehicles (EVs), has partnered with Visa to create a white-label fleet wallet for EV charging payments. The fleet wallet is designed for fleet operators and ...

The war in Iran is increasingly giving the freight sector a fright. As of Monday (March 16), the geopolitical risks of the Middle East engagement have already reshaped global trade patterns around air ...

FedEx plans to embed artificial intelligence (AI) agents into more than half of its operational workflows by 2028, a move that signals how large enterprises are beginning to deploy AI ...

International freight industry platform Freightos appointed its chief financial officer and interim CEO, Pablo Pinillos, as its CEO and a member of the board of directors, effective Monday (March 16). The ...

Ford now offers fleet managers a virtual assistant that can perform tasks such as reporting on the condition of company vehicles and scheduling service. The new Ford Pro AI is available ...

Robotic intelligence firm Rhoda AI emerged from stealth Tuesday (March 10) and announced it raised $450 million in a Series A funding round. The company is building a robot foundation model that combines ...

Global logistics company Maersk said Friday (March 6) that it has it has temporarily suspended some of its shipping services in the Middle East due to the conflict with Iran. Maersk has suspended its services that connect the ...

PayPal and transportation trade finance provider TCS Blockchain have launched a collaboration to enable carriers to use digital assets on blockchain rails to settle freight invoices. This solution will allow faster ...

Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East are disrupting physical supply chains and critical digital infrastructure. The impact goes beyond stranded tennis professionals. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Sunday (March 1) an outage ...

Trade finance has a dirty secret. While containers can be tracked in real time across the world’s oceans, the documentation required to release those goods often moves at the speed ...

Importers in the United States are anticipating favorable deals as they negotiate their ocean shipping contracts for 2026, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Feb. 26). Shipping specialists said supply is ...

Digital transformation often comes with a deceptively simple pitch. Move a formerly analog industry online, unlock transparency and let network effects do the rest. When it comes to the freight sector, ...

Logistics is moving from a game of scale to one of smarts. As global trade shifts under the weight of ongoing uncertainty and geopolitical strain, knowing where goods are, what condition ...

Amazon is enhancing its health-related offerings by expanding the geographic range of its same-day prescription delivery service and by launching a beta feature that helps patients understand their lab results. Amazon ...

Mastercard and eCommerce enabler Bosta are partnering to support small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Egypt by introducing a dedicated discount program for Mastercard Business cardholders. The program will provide these ...

One of the underplayed areas of The Prompt Economy is the supply chain. But new developments around procurement and logistics have brought agentic AI to the fore in this area ...

For WEX Inc., the latest quarter highlighted a shift in momentum across its portfolio, with the corporate payments segment carrying more of the company’s growth as mobility markets remained uneven. Fourth-quarter ...

Mastercard launched a portfolio of fleet management solutions in the Asia-Pacific region. Mastercard Fleet: Next Gen is designed for fleets of all sizes and brings together payments, data and controls, the ...

Gatik’s autonomous trucks have been making deliveries with no human driver or safety observer behind the wheel since mid-2025, according to a Tuesday (Jan. 27) press release. Those autonomous trucks have ...

UPS is no longer optimizing for dominance by volume. And it’s by design. The over-a-century-old shipping and supply chain management company is rounding the bases on its multi-year plan to slash ...

Nike plans to cut 775 employees, primarily from its distribution centers in Tennessee and Mississippi, as it accelerates its use of automation at those centers, CNBC reported Monday (Jan. 26), ...

Humanoid robots have become one of the most visible symbols of artificial intelligence (AI) moving from software into the physical economy. Built to walk, lift, grasp and interact in human environments, ...

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is now taking bids for access to its ​last‑mile delivery network. The federal mail carrier service announced Tuesday (Jan. 20) that it had launched an online ...

Shipping tech company Bluspark Global reportedly resolved security issues in its shipping and supply chain platform Bluvoyix. The company did so after being notified of the vulnerabilities by security researcher Eaton ...

As the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2026 continues its familiar flood of hardware launches and futuristic demos, one of the most consequential technology stories was largely invisible. It was unfolding ...

Hackers and cyber criminals no longer look like characters in science fiction movies like The Matrix. They don’t hide behind hoodies, green text or zero-day exploits. Instead, they increasingly look ...

Stord has acquired Shipwire, the artificial intelligence (AI) fulfillment subsidiary of CEVA Logistics, expanding its global logistics footprint and strengthening its technology platform as brands accelerate adoption of intelligent end-to-end ...

A New Year brings new beginnings. For the B2B freight and logistics landscape, those new beginnings have been simmering in the background ever since President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, in ...

Physical artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining traction in industries long seen as resistant to advanced technology, not because those sectors lacked interest in innovation, but because failure was not an ...

Trucking industry insurance company Nirvana has raised $100 million. The company’s Series D round, announced last week, will allow it to bolster its operating system, which it says it constructed to ...

For decades, logistics giants competed on reach. But the next decade, according to FedEx executives on the company’s second-quarter 2026 earnings call Thursday (Dec. 18), could reward those that compete on ...

UPS-owned reverse logistics company Happy Returns reportedly plans to use artificial intelligence to combat returns fraud. The company is testing an AI fraud detection tool with some clients during the holidays ...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) plans to make its last-mile delivery service available to shippers of all sizes. After offering a limited number of very large customers delivery service direct from its 18,000 delivery destination units ...

Global logistics has become defined by a fundamental paradox: Like many of the world’s critical commercial functions, the sector is caught between two worlds, the analog past and digital future. Global ...

Uber has launched a collaboration with Shopify aimed at speeding delivery for merchants. The partnership makes Uber Direct available to Shopify Plus merchants in the U.S., Canada, and France, allowing them ...

Amazon plans to invest $35 billion in India through 2030 to support business expansion, artificial intelligence (AI) digitization, export growth and job creation. This will build on the $40 billion the ...

Amazon is reportedly evaluating its delivery network after talks with the U.S. Postal Service stalled. If Amazon expands its network, the move would make Amazon the country’s most ubiquitous delivery service and present ...

As companies experiment with agentic AI, some are discovering that real transformation starts when planning becomes dynamic. The World Economic Forum says global supply chains now operate under “perpetual volatility,” ...

Cargo theft is now “primarily cyber-enabled,” an FBI agent said in a Tuesday (Nov. 25) Wall Street Journal report. Doug McKelway, a supervisory special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is breaking down the traditional constraint of global logistics: the need for additional labor as business scales. Logistics has always been a business of scale, with the ...

The impact of U.S. tariffs continues to rock the logistics and transportation industries, CNBC reported Thursday (Nov. 20). Major ports are seeing a drop in imports. For the first time this ...