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FedEx Adds New Fee for Big Shippers, Fueled by E-Commerce

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Thomas Black in Transport Topics

FedEx Corp. plans to add a new surcharge for its largest customers, citing higher pandemic-related costs and indicating that robust demand continues to give couriers considerable power to dictate prices.

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FedEx Vows to Avoid Transport Bottlenecks When Vaccines Are Ready

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Thomas Black in Transport Topics

FedEx Corp. is pledging to avoid transportation logjams when a massive operation begins to deliver a coronavirus vaccine.

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UPS, FedEx Face Stress Test From Amazon’s ‘Christmas Creep’

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Thomas Black in Transport Topics

FedEx Corp. and UPS Inc. are girding for their biggest test yet in the e-commerce era, with “Christmas Creep” pushing the holiday shopping season ever earlier and stretching the limits of shipping networks already strained by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Shippers Might Pay More for Cargo in 2021, C.H. Robinson Says

Posted on September 22, 2020 by Thomas Black in Transport Topics

Shippers probably will pay more for freight heading into 2021 after the pandemic lockdown drove many small truckers out of business and cargo demand rebounds faster than the economy, C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. CEO Bob Biesterfeld said.

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FedEx Seeks to Add Small Self-Flying Planes for Remote Areas

Posted on September 21, 2020 by Thomas Black in Transport Topics

FedEx Corp. is looking at using small self-flying cargo planes to serve remote areas after experimenting with a technology startup on autonomous aircraft, CEO Fred Smith said.

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UPS Holiday Season Hiring Will Top 100,000 Amid E-Commerce Boom

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Thomas Black in Transport Topics

UPS Inc. said it will hire more than 100,000 seasonal workers to help handle an expected avalanche of holiday packages from online orders this year as shoppers avoid stores during the coronavirus pandemic.

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FedEx to Increase Peak Hiring 27% for ‘Unprecedented’ Season

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Thomas Black in Transport Topics

FedEx Corp. plans to hire about 70,000 seasonal workers to handle the holiday surge of packages, a 27% increase from last year’s peak, in what is expected to be an unprecedented level of delivery demand.

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UPS, FedEx Out to Prove They Can Profit in Holiday Season

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Thomas Black in Transport Topics

UPS Inc. and FedEx Corp., riding high from record package deliveries amid the coronavirus pandemic, are moving on to their next objective: showing investors they can boost profit in the approaching onslaught of the holidays.

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FedEx Joins UPS, USPS in Adding Fees as Holiday Delivery Surge Looms

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Thomas Black in Transport Topics

FedEx Corp. is joining a rush to apply extra holiday fees on high-volume shippers as couriers brace for a new jump in residential deliveries during the year-end peak season.

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UPS to Levy Holiday Surcharges as Home Deliveries Climb

Posted on August 7, 2020 by Thomas Black in Transport Topics

United Parcel Service Inc. will apply hefty surcharges on its biggest customers during the holiday peak season to help manage an avalanche of residential deliveries spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.

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