Royal Mail Plc will return $540 million to shareholders, saying it’s increasingly confident that the online shopping boom spurring parcel deliveries will persist.
November 18, 2021Christopher Jasper
Business, Logistics, Top 50 
An employee sorts through a trolley of parcels the Royal Mail Plc sorting office in Chelmsford, U.K. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg)
Royal Mail Hands $540 Million to Investors on Parcel Windfall
An employee sorts through a trolley of parcels the Royal Mail Plc sorting office in Chelmsford, U.K. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg) Government, Business, Equipment, Fuel 
Trucks parked at a bus station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Habibur Rahman/Getty Images)
Zero-Carbon Shipping Plan Targets Container, Iron Ore Routes
Trucks parked at a bus station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Habibur Rahman/Getty Images)Shipping routes for the transport of iron ore from Australia to Japan and containerized goods from East Asia to Europe are at the center of plans to slash maritime carbon emissions by 2030.
November 10, 2021 Government, Business, Logistics 
A FedEx cargo plane sits idle at the Richmond International Airport in Virginia. (Steve Helber/Associated Press)
UN Recruits UPS, FedEx, Dozens of Others to Deliver Vaccine to World’s Poor
A FedEx cargo plane sits idle at the Richmond International Airport in Virginia. (Steve Helber/Associated Press)United Nations humanitarian relief agency Unicef is looking to recruit some of the airline industry’s biggest operators to help distribute a coronavirus vaccine to the world’s poorest nations.
November 17, 2020 Government, Business, Safety 
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China’s Air Travel Rebound Stalls on Lack of Leisure Demand
(SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg News)A recovery in demand for flights within China is stuck at about 45% of pre-coronavirus levels as people continue to shun leisure trips after the outbreak.
April 21, 2020 Business, Safety 
Passengers embark on a Boeing 737-800 aircraft of low cost airline Ryanair at Schoenefeld airport near Berlin, on April 12, 2019. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
Boeing 737 Max Groundings to Affect 2020 Results, Ryanair Says
Passengers embark on a Boeing 737-800 aircraft of low cost airline Ryanair at Schoenefeld airport near Berlin, on April 12, 2019. (John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)The extended grounding of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max plane forced Ryanair Holdings to scale back growth plans for next summer, putting the airline industry on notice that the crisis is starting to affect longer-term plans.
July 16, 2019 Business, Technology, Autonomous 
London black cabs cause gridlock and bring Whitehall and central London to a standstill in a one hour protest demonstration in 2014 against the use of Uber. (Getty Images)
London Not Ready for Driverless Cars Before 2030s, Report Says
London black cabs cause gridlock and bring Whitehall and central London to a standstill in a one hour protest demonstration in 2014 against the use of Uber. (Getty Images) London is ill-prepared to become an early adopter of cutting-edge transport technology including driverless cars and retail deliveries by drone, according to the city’s lawmakers.
February 13, 2018