Freight has traditionally moved into larger retail DCs, but with the boom of direct-to-consumer sales, last-mile deliveries have become much more common place. “Last-mile delivery demand continues to explode in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is elevating customer expectations and continually raising the retailer performance bar. The response to these secular and intertwined trends will spawn alliances that were unimaginable five years ago.“
According to TIA and CLDA, who released a joint white paper that concluded the two groups were effectively made for each other, with TIA’s critical mass of shippers becoming a fine fit for the expertise of the approximately 8,000 last-mile delivery firms, many of which offer logistics solutions to demanding and specialized distribution problems across a wide range of verticals. Read more here.
Shippers will now be supplying product into new distribution channels which, through our 3PL services, our we are proud to be building for our clients.
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