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The numbers moving last mile delivery, summarized from published reporting.
- Workforce & Labour Payrolls beat forecasts three to one, in a labor market that Bank of America estimates needs only about 20,000 jobs a month to hold steady
- Fleet, Maintenance & Energy US diesel stockpiles are the lowest on record for the season, with refineries already past nameplate
- Fleet, Maintenance & Energy US diesel set a new record at $5.85, and refined fuel is now tighter than crude
- Cost Engineering Asia to West Coast container rates are running at three times last year's level as the G20 questions China's export push
- Carriers & 3PL Strategy Trucking capacity tightened and transport costs rose for a fourth month in five, just as retailers reported stronger fall demand
- Technology, AI & Automation Thirty two companies beat their peer group over a decade, and roughly 80 percent of sectors are worse off than before the pandemic
- Cost Engineering US logistics costs stayed up in August while warehouse capacity grew at its fastest pace of the year
- M&A & Strategic Investments Woolworths is redirecting investment to the division that delivers, and it published the returns to justify it
- Network & Facilities The end of the small parcel exemption is being answered with European warehouses
- Cost Engineering Diesel refining margins set a record, and the cost reaches the buyer before any contract reopens
- Cost Engineering Imports are surging into the West Coast while retailers narrow their ranges and turn tariff refunds into price cuts
- Workforce & Labour Driver capacity is tightening by enforcement rather than by demand, and carriers are paying for drivers again
- Cost Engineering Ikea is spending 1.2 billion euros on lower prices and naming its supply chain as the reason it can
- Cost Engineering Retailers are cutting the catalogue, and complexity is the cost they are trying to remove
- Autonomous, Robotics & Drones Amazon and Walmart Test Whether Drones Can Make Rural Delivery Pay
- Carriers & 3PL Strategy MSC Restores Red Sea Sailings as Port Congestion Holds
- Cost Engineering Diesel Reaches $5.62 a Gallon and Lands on Cost Per Mile
- Carriers & 3PL Strategy 1.8 Million Containers Sit Outside the Network
- Cost Engineering Retail Media Reaches $73 Billion as Own Label Grows
- Autonomous, Robotics & Drones Amazon Prime Air drone delivery is expanding to nearly 500 cities and towns this year
- Autonomous, Robotics & Drones Uber and Zipline Partner to Bring Drone Delivery to Millions of Americans
- Network & Facilities Developers Are Back to Building U.S. Warehouses
- Peak Season & Events Retailers Rush In Holiday Imports Early to Avoid Looming Costs
- Returns & Reverse Logistics Consumers Expected to Return Nearly $850 Billion in Merchandise in 2025