U.S. delivery drivers exposed on frontlines of COVID-19 pandemic
In the new COVID-19 economy that divides labor into essential and nonessential, truckers and parcel delivery drivers have become some of the most indispensable — and most exposed — workers as shut-in Americans rely more on online shopping. Employees at United Parcel Service Inc. and ...
FedEx ends ground delivery deal with Amazon as e-commerce giant morphs into rival
FedEx Corp. confirmed on Wednesday it would terminate its contract with Amazon.com Inc. for ground delivery of small packages as the online retailer focuses on building out its own delivery network. The move by the U.S. delivery company comes two months after it decided not ...
FedEx again botches delivery of Huawei package to U.S.; China paper says retaliation threatened
FedEx Corp. said on Sunday an operational error prevented a Huawei Technologies package from being delivered to the United States, just weeks after the U.S. delivery company said an error led to the Chinese firm's packages being misdirected. China's Global Times newspaper said in a ...
Air cargo carriers caught in crossfire of Trump-China trade dispute
U.S. President Donald Trump's intensifying trade war with China dented air cargo traffic even before FedEx Corp. got dragged into the brawl, as companies worldwide reconfigure their supply chains in the face of increasing tariffs. Global cargo demand fell 4.7 percent in April from a ...
Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei is reviewing its relationship with FedEx Corp after it claimed the U.S. package delivery company, without detailed explanation, diverted two parcels destined for Huawei addresses in Asia to the United States and attempted to reroute two others. Huawei told Reuters ...
World economy to feel the delayed trade war pain in 2019, data shows
While 2018 was the year trade wars broke out, 2019 will be the year the global economy feels the pain. Bloomberg's Global Trade Tracker is softening amid a fading rush to front-load export orders ahead of threatened tariffs. And volumes are tipped to slow further ...
FedEx Corp. said on Wednesday "key evidence" it provided to law enforcement officials led to the identification of the Texas bombing suspect, according to an internal FedEx memo seen by Reuters. The suspect was identified as Mark Anthony Conditt, of Pflugerville, Texas, according to the ...
Police officials say they plan to send a case to prosecutors alleging professional negligence against two U.S. pilots who were killed when their FedEx cargo plane crashed at Narita International Airport in March 2009. Kevin Kyle Mosley, the 54-year-old pilot of the MD-11, and Anthony ...
