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FedEx will combine almost all of its ground, air and other operations by next year as part of a USD 4 billion cost cutting plan. The package delivery company said Wednesday that FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Services and other FedEx operating companies will be rolled into a single entity by June 2024 in a companywide reorganisation. FedEx Freight, the company's freight transportation services division, will continue as a stand-alone company within Federal Express Corp. Raj Subramaniam will serve as president and CEO of the combined organisation. John Smith will become president and CEO of US and Canada ground operations at FedEx Express and assume leadership of surface operations across the FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, and FedEx Freight businesses. Richard Smith will serve as president and CEO, airline and international at FedEx Express, overseeing all other regions and FedEx Logistics. The company expects to realise permanent cost reductions of USD 4 billion from the reshuff

State-owned India Post has partnered with logistics aggregator Shiprocket to enhance its last-mile delivery services for various e-commerce products, an official statement said on Friday. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between India Post, Shiprocket and Pickrr at Dak Bhawan here. Under the collaboration, India Post has ensured IT integration with IT systems of Shiprocket. This integration has been done through various application programming interface (API) for tariff, booking, label generation, pickup and track & trace systems.

As Domino's faces the 20-minute delivery challenge in Bengaluru, announces launch of service in other metros in 12 months

Company says delivery drivers don't overspeed and its technology will ensure safety

Now, JioMart is asking users to use WhatsApp to order groceries for a delivery time of a few hours to a day

According to the report by the professional service platform apna.co, there has been a 34 per cent increase in women opting for labour-intensive jobs

A Chennai user ordered about Rs 45,000 worth of Ferrero Rocher chocolates from Dunzo in just three orders, the report shows

Firm says overall aim is to ensure delivery of hotter, fresher and tastier pizza without compromising food quality and safety and well-being of delivery riders

Quick commerce fastest-growing consumer technology industry in India, he says

The company has a total workforce of about 1500

Several brokerages bullish on the stock with target prices ranging between Rs 330 and Rs 700

Company will enable sellers to select delivery partners to ship products across India

Delivery partners, riders or executives. Their designations are different, the mission the same shouldering outsized backpacks crammed with everything from lipsticks to lamps, and maybe even laptops, as they zigzag through streets delivering necessities and festivities to our doorsteps. It's Diwali but one edged with anxiety for the band of men on motorcycles and cycles, a familiar sight in cities across India whose work becomes more frantic during festivals. Making an average of Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 a month, they hope to earn an incentive, or at least a box of sweets in the season. Chandan, who works with a logistics company that handles couriers for brands such as FirstCry, Snapdeal and Ajio, is one of them. He usually delivers 50-60 parcels a day but this can go as high as 100 during Diwali. Does he get something by way of an incentive for Diwali after working to fulfil orders? The 30-year-old responded with an emphatic no. Let alone incentives, I will count myself lucky if

People can place orders in grocery and restaurant segments for now

The delivery giant also offers Rs 5,000 worth of Out-Patient Department (OPD) support, which can be extended to their families

A new consumer survey shows strong support from Delhi consumers for the proposed aggregator scheme of the city government which requires a time-bound transition to electric vehicles by last-mile delivery and e-commerce companies. The proposed scheme sets an April 30, 2030 deadline for the complete transition of Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) to electric vehicles (EV) among e-commerce, delivery and transport logistics service providers. Commissioned by the Sustainable Mobility Network and conducted by CMSR Consultants, the survey shows that 80 per cent of the 1,508 respondents in Delhi attributed last-mile delivery vehicles as one of the reasons for rising air pollution in the city. According to the survey, 95.2 per cent of the respondents agreed that a switch to EVs by delivery companies is important for addressing air pollution issues and mitigating climate change. The survey, conducted through a mix of offline on-ground interviews (70 per cent) and online survey responses (30

The Jefferies report was based on a visit to one of Blinkit's dark stores in NCR

Business-to-business commerce player Peel Works is probably the first firm that is planning to replace its entire fleet of fossil fuel-based delivery vehicles with electric ones and procure 100 EVs in the first phase. Peel Works, a Mumbai-headquartered B2B (business-to-business) grocery e-commerce company, is in talks with Piaggio, Tata Motors, Mahindra and Greaves for procuring 100 EVs (electric vehicles) for its distribution business. It operates the retail management platform, Taikee, and Manpower, Payroll management and Logistics as service platform 1SF. "We have plans to shift entirely to EVs (electric vehicles). As of now, in the first phase, we are planning to take 100 EVs ahead of this festival season. If it went well then we will go for more EVs deployment," the company's co-founder and supply chain Head, Lt Col Pushkar Raj (Retd) told PTI. He further told that the company is in talks with Piaggio, Tata Motors, Mahindra, and Greaves to procure 100 EVs (light goods vehicles

Logistics firm Delhivery on Friday announced its plans to hire over 75,000 staff for seasonal jobs over the next one-and-a-half month and expand its parcel sortation capacity by 1.5 million shipments per day. Of these, over 10,000 people will be off-roll employees across Delhivery's gateways, warehouses, and last-mile delivery, the company said. The hiring is aimed at meeting the expected higher volumes in both parcels and express part-truck load business during the festive season, it added. The company's fully-automated mega gateway, which is equipped with the automated parcel and hub sortation at Tauru became operational in April this year. The company said it will also double down on its various partner programmes by onboarding individual bikers, local retailers, business partners and transporters with plans to roll out a revenue payout of Rs 150-crore across all programmes. Delhivery said it will hire 50,000 last-mile agents under its Last-Mile Agent programme alone, which off

Company backed by Reliance Retail won't expand to new cities after burning more than Rs 100 cr in the last quarter