Posti buys home care services provider
Finland’s postal operator Posti has bought HR Hoiva Oy, which provides home care and personal assistance services for municipalities, joint municipal authorities and private customers.
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Collective deliveries
News has emerged about yet another delivery drone patent from Amazon. This time, the Seattle retail giant has come up with an idea of getting drones to swarm together, so they can combine their strength and collectively deliver much larger items.
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Post Office confirms plans to find more retail partners for directly managed branches
Post Office has today (10 January) confirmed that it would be seeking partners for 37 of its directly managed branches – and this is in addition to the 93 branches previously announced over the past year.
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Thailand Post investing in digital transformation
Thailand Post is set on a “digital transformation” programme that will see the postal operator investing heavily in upgrading its core automation systems, distribution centres and delivery infrastructure.
Read MoreUPS buys Freightex
UPS has bought Freightex, the UK-based “asset-light” provider of truckload, less-than-truckload, specialised and refrigerated over-the-road services.
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Tesco proposes to close two distribution centres and simplify network
Tesco has announced proposed changes to its UK distribution network, which include reducing the number of distribution centres from 25 to 23 and bringing in house all the warehouse operations that are currently carried out by DHL and Wincanton.
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Palletways hits festive season record
Palletways UK has announced that it handled a total of 867,619 pallets over the festive season.
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Melbourne “paving the way for autonomous vehicles”
The University of Melbourne is working with industry partners on a project which could “pave the way for connected and autonomous vehicles”.
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