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UPS has rolled out a new pickup dashboard and related digital tools aimed at making shipping easier for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as the carrier continues to compete with FedEx for this profitable customer segment. The centerpiece of the update is a pickup dashboard that lets shippers schedule, manage, and track pickups in one place, complete with real-time notifications. According to Dave Hudson, UPS president of global digital channels, large shippers with d

DHL Group's second-quarter operating profit rose 30%, driven by heavier air shipments in its Express division, tight air freight capacity, and fuel surcharges. Net profit grew 24% and revenue rose 13% to about $25.8 billion, with an operating margin of 8.3%. DHL raised its full-year EBIT guidance to $7.43 billion, and cash flow jumped 73%, aided by U.S. tariff refunds it is passing on to customers. DHL Express operating income surged 64% as the company shifted toward heavier,

Amazon received $600 million in refunds during the second quarter for tariffs that were later struck down, and plans to return a portion of those funds to customers, the company said on its Thursday earnings call. CFO Brian Olsavsky said the $600 million represents “the significant majority” of the refunds Amazon expects to collect from duties it paid under International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) levies, which the Supreme Court invalidated in February. Olsavsky sa

FedEx is scaling up its use of an AI-powered robot to load truck trailers at its Hagerstown, Maryland, hub, after several years of validation testing with startup Dexterity Inc. The expanded rollout will let FedEx evaluate Dexterity's system at a larger operational scale inside a high-volume logistics environment, informing future decisions on broader deployment. The Dexterity loader is also running at a facility in Tracy, California. Loading and unloading trailers is one of

Several Ceva Logistics warehouses in Europe were the target of a data breach, which resulted in the unauthorized capture of personal and business data of retailers served by Ceva. (Photo: Ceva Logistics) Operations at eight Ceva Logistics warehouses in Europe were disrupted over the weekend by a cyberattack, causing shipping delays for many of the freight giant's retail customers with inventory stored in those locations, according to a source close to the situation. Affected

Starting August 3, DHL Express will cut its import and export fuel surcharge calculations by two percentage points, according to an update on the company's website. At a jet fuel price of $3.51/gallon, for example, the export surcharge drops from 33.75% to 31.75% and the import surcharge drops from 37.5% to 35.5%. Rates adjust weekly based on U.S. Gulf Coast kerosene-type jet fuel spot prices and apply to transportation charges plus various service and added fees. The move is