Amazon is quietly taking another step toward becoming its own delivery company – at least in the European market. The Seattle Times reported that the e-commerce company is planning to acquire Colis Privé, a French package-delivery company in which Amazon has had a 25 percent interest since 2014. The buyout of the remaining 75 percent[…]

A class-action lawsuit was filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court against three trucking subsidiaries of XPO Logistics for allegedly misclassifying their drivers as independent contractors, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal and Nasdaq. The suit argues that drivers for Pacer Cartage, Inc., Harbor Rail Transport and PDS Transportation, Inc., were paid below[…]

At a time when the United States and Cuba are attempting to normalize relations and re-establish trade, the fact that an inert U.S. Hellfire missile ended up in Cuba in 2014 is raising concerns across the logistics world. The missile was originally sent to Spain to be used in a military exercise, according to The[…]

In spite of the usual, end-of-year holiday surge, LATAM Airlines Group continued to report low cargo traffic for December 2015. The carrier said airfreight demand was particularly weak in Brazil in both domestic and international markets for the month. Weaker seasonal exports from Latin America didn’t help. Cargo traffic for the group decreased 11.2 percent[…]

Seeking to expand package delivery options in the European e-commerce world, Deutsche Post DHL is acquiring a 27.5 percent stake in French e-commerce logistics specialist, Relais Colis. With Relais Colis, customers purchasing small e-commerce parcels can have them sent at low cost to a designated “pickup point” – often a kiosk or retail store –[…]