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Iron Mountain CEO William Meaney told investors that inflation is a good excuse to raise prices. For months, companies have reassured shareholders that they are able to pass inflation along [...]

Shippers welcome discounts, new niche players Even small shippers now can save money on their package deliveries. What might have seemed as far-fetched as a fairy tale just five short [...]

President Trump reportedly asked Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rates that the USPS charges to deliver packages--which would deliver the biggest hit to the biggest mailer of packages, [...]

FedEx Express is joining forces with the coffee shop chain Cafe Coffee Day (CCD) to launch the traditional Rakhi offer. The offer enables a sister to win an opportunity to [...]

New York (AirGuideBusiness - Airline Finance News North America) Jun 26, 2011 Aircell, Delta Airlines, Bombardier Aircell's Gogo internet service has been installed on the first Delta Connection regional jet, [...]

FedEx planes may be soaring toward higher profit, but the $34.7 billion transportation company's freight-hauling trucks are struggling to escape losses churned up by higher costs and deep rate discounting [...]

Weak economy and all, FedEx celebrated a record day in its express division on Dec. 14, 2009, handling 14.1 million packages, and the company has a clear idea of how [...]

Byline: Larry Riggs Standard Mail and standard nonprofit rates will increase an average of 3.8% in May, in keeping with legal limits established under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act [...]

Maersk Cuts Rates, Others Follow: Maersk Line has slashed Asia-to-U.S. container freight rates by nearly a quarter as the U.S. economy slows, a high-profile shippersO organization says. OContainer shipping rates [...]

By David Hannon Logistics giants UPS and FedEx issued their 2009 rates increases just as their market went into transition with DHL's announcement it would pull out of the U.S. [...]

BYLINE: Paul Page The express parcel carriers didn't get the memo that price increases are tougher in an economic downturn. UPS last week followed an aggressive rate hike plan from [...]

BYLINE: Michael Fabey Hoping to turn around its declining volumes and disappointing financial performance, the U.S. Postal Service announced the new prices for its Express Mail and Priority Mail made [...]

BYLINE: Michael Fabey With jet fuel prices shattering records just about every week over the past month, airlines are hunting for more ways to compensate for their growing fuel bills. [...]

Byline: Larry Riggs The U.S. Postal Service will begin offering volume- related price incentives for Express Mail, Priority Mail and other shipping services on May 12. These incentives were made [...]

Byline: Larry Riggs The U.S. Postal Service will begin offering volume related other price incentives for Express Mail, Priority Mail and other shipping services on May 12. These incentives were [...]

FedEx Freight, a provider of regional next-day and second-day less-than-truckload service, will raise its general rates 5.48 % effective Jan. 14. Additionally, FedEx National LTL the long-haul ground delivery unit, [...]

FedEx will raise rates at its regional and long haul less-than-truckload subsidiaries in January. FedEx Freight and FedEx National LTL will implement 5.48 percent general rate increases effective Jan. 14. [...]

By David Hannon Logistics giants UPS and FedEx both will increase their rates for ground, air express and international shipments by an average of 4.9% in 2008. Both providers said [...]

BYLINE: Michael Fabey Shippers may wind up paying much less than the record rate hikes announced in recent weeks by the major expedited carriers, according to an analysis by Pittsburgh-based [...]

FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery will increase their standard list rates an average of 4.9 percent, effective Jan. 7, 2008. The announcement follows a similar increase to air and [...]

BYLINE: Michael Fabey Matching competitors FedEx and UPS, DHL Express today announced a 4.9 percent increase in the net average shipping rate for DHL Domestic Air Express and International Express, [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher FedEx Express rates are going up next year by an average of 4.9 percent, FedEx announced Friday. The net average rate is composed of a 6.9 [...]

Byline: JIM MELE An announcement by FedEx Corp. that it was reducing fuel surcharges for its LTL freight by 25% should lead to similar moves by the other major carriers [...]

BYLINE: John Gallagher FedEx Freight slashed its fuel surcharge by 25 percent for spot shipments in a move observers say will heat up a competitive LTL freight market as carriers [...]

Byline: Jim Mele, editor-in-chief An announcement yesterday by FedEx Corp. that it was reducing fuel surcharges for its LTL freight by 25% should lead to similar moves by the other [...]

BYLINE: John Gallagher UPS Freight and FedEx Freight are banking on strong rate hikes will stick in coming months despite weaker pricing in the LTL arena in the first quarter. [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher Two less-than-truckload subsidiaries of FedEx will implement a 5.59 percent general rate increase effective April 2, 2007. FedEx Freight and FedEx National LTL will apply the [...]

Looking to transport markets for signals about where the economy is headed as 2006 comes to a close can be perilous business. The markets are moving in very different directions [...]

DHL Express waited to set its air rates for 2007 until FedEx Express and UPS had already showed their cards, and then split the difference between the two larger carriers. [...]

FedEx Corp. is boosting standard rates for its FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery services by an average of 4.9% effective January 1st. FedEx previously noted net average shipping costs [...]

Just in time for the holidays, the fuel surcharges on shipments through the big U.S. package carriers are heading downward. Again. UPS and FedEx Express cut their fuel fees for [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery, the two major surface units of FedEx, will increase their standard list rates by an average of 4.9 percent, the [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher DHL followed suit with other express carriers by raising its base rates for 2007 and reducing its air fuel surcharge index. The new base rate for [...]

BYLINE: John D. Boyd Price growth in the express and parcel market doesn't appear to be slowing down even as other segments of the shipping business are seeing demand and [...]

BYLINE: John D. Boyd Two major U.S. cargo carriers this week joined the ongoing industry trend in cutting the air fuel surcharges they apply to heavy freight supplied by forwarders, [...]

With fuel prices in a steep slide downward, Cargolux and Northwest Airlines launched an airline push to lower fuel surcharges, cutting the basic rate to $0.55 per kilogram. Meanwhile, the [...]

The three main package carriers operating in the United States all took their fuel surcharges down a peg on air shipments in October, but they all pushed their ground package [...]

David Hannon Small parcel carriers UPS and FedEx recently released 2006 rates and for the first time, FedEx released its air express rates before UPS. FedEx in early October said [...]