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The Station: Rivian trims its workforce and a supply chain-tainted earnings season begins

TechCrunch

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Shop owners should stop complaining to their local transportation authorities when parking spots get repurposed for bike lanes. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Listen up founders!

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How to integrate with eCommerce delivery and shipment carriers: DHL, FedEx, UK Royal Mail, UPS, USPS, Canada Post, Amazon

Altexsoft

Global delivery and logistics providers like DHL, FedEx, UPS, USPS, and more have free integrated solutions (except for Amazon, which we’ll cover later) to help online stores automate the shipping process domestically and internationally. Application Programming Interface or API is your access point to a provider’s functionality.

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Shipping APIs: How to Connect Your Business System to Transportation and Delivery Providers

Altexsoft

Today, Application Programming Interfaces , or APIs, are everywhere. Previously, we’ve discussed the main connectivity options in transportation and how to connect to the key carriers and service providers. USPS is the cheapest and is usually the carrier of choice for small businesses that handle lightweight shipments.

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How to Connect to Transport Providers: Key Carriers, EDI, APIs, e-AWB

Altexsoft

Major players followed the trend of transportation industry digitalization , investing in cargo booking platforms that connect with the maximum number of carriers possible. Currently, there’s a wide range of services and providers that offer various connectivity options across different means of transport. Let’s discuss them.

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eCommerce Shipping: Main Challenges and Technological Solutions

Altexsoft

Basically, there are just a few main options on how to organize the transportation of your goods. The biggest carriers are quite well-known and include USPS, FedEx, DHL, and UPS. Creating an account is free and registering with their business programs gives access to discounted rates too. Local delivery. Choose a solution.

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Edge Computing: Use Cases, Key Providers, and Implementation Options

Altexsoft

In most cases, the layers exchange information via MQTT (message queue telemetry transport) — a lightweight IoT protocol for pub/sub communications. Edge computing impacts all key industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, farming, transportation, security, and more. US Postal Services (USPS) delivers 7.3 Source: CNN.

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Integrating Shipment Tracking: Shipping APIs and EDIs from Major Carriers and Aggregators

Altexsoft

Type of transportation (rail, air, sea, truck). a list of shipment route legs (transportation connection points). Besides large vessels and barges, they also provide point-to-point deliveries by truck, and transport high-capacity cargo by rail. There are ocean prices , and rates for inland transportation. API connection.

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