What do ShipStation Global and FedEx Freight have in common?

One merged. One split. Both are responding to the same customer demand.

WWEX and Auctane combined to create ShipStation Global. FedEx Freight became its own publicly traded company.

One is consolidation and the other is a spin-off, but both are responses to the same reality: customers want clarity around who owns the outcome and fewer moving pieces between them and the work getting done.

We're seeing it more often. Brands want fewer technology vendors, fewer service providers, and fewer relationships to manage. The caveat is that they're not looking for the fewest vendors possible. They're looking for the fewest relationships required to hit their cost, service, and growth objectives.

That's why it's becoming harder to sell "we do everything." Although it reduces the vendor number for a buyer, it often means lower quality service and more exceptions. The businesses getting traction tend to be very clear about what they do, who they do it for, and where they create value.

That doesn't put smaller providers at a disadvantage. In many cases, it creates an opportunity. If you're specialized or exceptionally strong in a particular part of the value chain, that's increasingly valuable. The challenge is making it easy to plug into the broader ecosystem of providers, technology, and partners your customers already rely on.

WHAT’S TRENDING

WWEX and Auctane create ShipStation Global

📦️ WWEX and Auctane merged on June 1, combining freight brokerage, parcel shipping, and logistics software into a single platform serving SMB and mid-market shippers.

📦️ The combined network includes 75+ LTL carriers, 45,000 truckload carriers, and Auctane brands like ShipStation, Stamps.com, Metapack, and Packlink.

📦️ For 3PLs, carrier access continues to become table stakes. Service, flexibility, and expertise become more important as platforms consolidate capabilities.

FreightWaves →

FedEx Freight begins operating independently

📦️ FedEx Freight officially separated from FedEx and now trades as FDXF, becoming a standalone public company focused entirely on North American LTL.

📦️ As the largest LTL carrier by revenue, future pricing, capacity, and investment decisions will now be driven by the economics of the LTL business itself.

📦️ Shippers with meaningful LTL volume may want to keep a close eye on contract renewals and network changes over the next few quarters.

FedEx Newsroom → | GuruFocus →

Canada Post reaches a new labor agreement

📦️ Canada Post workers approved a new five-year contract covering roughly 55,000 employees, ending nearly three years of labor uncertainty.

📦️ The agreement includes a 6.5% wage increase in year one and introduces weekend parcel delivery as Canada Post looks to remain competitive with private carriers.

📦️ Stability is back, but operators with Canadian volume should expect labor costs to work their way into future rate increases.

Supply Chain Dive → | CBC News →

PARTNER HIGHLIGHT

Solution Provider Highlight: Stock

Stock is the logistics infrastructure for inventory donation.

Brands and 3PLs are sitting on billions of dollars of excess, obsolete, returned, and abandoned inventory every year. Most of it still ends up liquidated, recycled, or destroyed not because teams want that outcome, but because donation has historically been too manual and operationally difficult to execute at scale.

Stock changes that.

Stock helps brands and fulfillment providers move excess inventory to vetted nonprofits quickly, compliantly, and with minimal operational lift. The platform integrates directly into existing warehouse workflows, making donation as simple as shipping an outbound order.

Stock manages the matching, logistics coordination, documentation, and compliance process end-to-end, including bills of lading, donation receipts, and transportation coordination. Inventory can move out of facilities within days instead of sitting for months.

For warehouse and fulfillment providers, Stock creates value in several ways:

• Quickly remove abandoned or aging inventory from warehouse space

• Offer brands a responsible alternative to liquidation or disposal

• Improve client retention by adding a high-value operational service

• Help customers recover value through potential tax advantages and reduced storage costs

• Create a differentiated service offering without adding internal operational burden

Several enterprise fulfillment providers who also leverage Slotted are already using Stock to support their customers with excess inventory management at scale.

Stock also provides enablement materials, sales support, and customer-facing resources so account management and sales teams can easily position donation as part of their broader fulfillment solution.

Learn more about Stock and inventory donation solutions by emailing Abby Nawrocki directly at [email protected]

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