logistics

27% of top UK retailers do not communicate during delivery

Recently published research by ParcelLab shows that the largest online retailers in the United Kingdom are not actively communicating with shoppers during the delivery period. Only four of the 100...

April 26, 2019

Italy targets Amazon Italia over abuse of market position

The competition authority in Italy announced that they will start an investigation. It is regarding Amazon Italia’s dominance abuse in the e-commerce logistics industry. The company is now facing a globally...

April 25, 2019

Top 30 UK Logistics Service Providers 2019

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) has recently published the 'Top 30 UK Logistics Service Providers 2019' report. This report contains a list of the top 30 logistics...

April 18, 2019

Wing starts with world's first drone delivery service

The delivery of packages using drones starts this week in Australia. Wing, a subsidiary of Alphabet, is going to deliver medicines, coffee and small food orders in the capital city...

April 15, 2019

A Real Cool Solution

This article previously was published in Cross-Border Magazine Have you ever ordered frozen food online? If so, you can imagine how unsatisfying it would be to receive your frozen veggies completely...

March 20, 2019

Online shopping: Possible price increase for home delivery

Last-mile service providers DPD and Hermes think about increasing prices for parcel home delivery at the front door. The delivery that we know as 'standard delivery' could become a premium...

March 18, 2019

Post & Parcel Europe 2019

Now in its third decade, Leaders in Logistics: Post & Parcel Europe (previously European Post & Parcel Services) gathers 250+ industry giants from national posts and couriers around the world to share...

September 26, 2018

HipVan: Designer Furniture in South-East Asia

This article previously was published in Cross-Border Magazine Proudly founded in Singapore, HipVan is creating affordable furniture and home decoration for its customers. Inspired by the problem that in Singapore,...

September 20, 2018

Deutsche Post-DHL Group splits e-commerce division to drive global growth sector

In order to allow for a dedicated focus on the Post and Parcel business in Germany and to leverage the tremendous growth opportunities in the e-commerce sector, Deutsche Post-DHL (DP-DHL) Group...

September 19, 2018

Whitepaper: Green & Social Delivery Report

Rijk van Meekeren is all about pushing boundaries. His eyes start to sparkle whenever he sees an opportunity to do things a better way. It's part of his drive to...

July 2, 2018

eTail Fulfilment & Returns - London: 11 - 12 September, 2018

eTail Fulfilment & Returns is the European event where eCommerce operations, logistics and customer experience leaders gather. Download the agenda to find out exactly who is speaking, what the hottest topics...

June 15, 2018

E-commerce represents 42 percent of PostNL's turnover

Dutch postal company PostNL experiences that e-commerce is becoming a more important turnover factor every year. Last year, e-commerce logistics was responsible for 34 percent. This percentage increased by 8...

May 14, 2018

DPD starts delivery in letterbox

Delivery company DPD is expanding its logistic services with ParcelLetter service. With this new service, it will be able to deliver small packages, letters and other shipped materials into the...

May 11, 2018

Amazon raises storage fees

Amazon is increasing its fees for using its merchant fulfilment program Fulfilment by Amazon (FbA). As of April 26th, 2018, Amazon introduces a new pricing structure that will affect both...

May 1, 2018

EU Council adopts rules on cross-border parcel delivery to promote e-commerce

The EU facilitates consumers and businesses to compare delivery rates in the European Union to promote e-commerce. This way, it will be more easy to oversee the complex fulfilment market. The...

May 1, 2018

Ecommerce Europe achieves major milestone in innovating cross-border parcel delivery services

After four months of discussions, country members of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) have recently approved the Technical Specification (TS 17073) for Postal services - Interfaces for cross-border parcels....

April 12, 2017

A cup of coffee with the Cross-Border European Commissioner Harrie Temmink

We like to have inspiring discussions about cross-border e-commerce over a nice cup of coffee. This time, we met with European Commissioner Harrie Temmink to talk about the obstacles facing...

March 31, 2017

Westwing: The 14-country, zero-inventory challenge

Stephan Spijkers, Operations Director at Westwing Who? He has worked for Westwing for 4 ½ years, practically from the beginning of the company in the Netherlands. He is responsible for the...

March 28, 2017

Techstyle (Fabletics, JustFab) expands European operations with logistics hub in Venlo

Logistics service provider Bleckmann and fashion giant Techstyle are celebrating the opening of a new distribution facility in Venlo, The Netherlands, which will ship thousands of orders a day direct...

February 23, 2017

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