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Walmart to Make Huge eCommerce Acquisition? Uber Packs it Up in China; US Truckload Carriers have Tough Q2; California Plans to Remake Freight Transportation |
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20%
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That is the share that Uber will now have in rival Chinese ride sharing service Didi Chuxing, after it sold out to Didi after apparently concluding that the Chinese government was never going to allow it to succeed in the giant China market. "Foreign tech companies trying to make China a big market have always found it a fraught endeavor," the Wall Street Journal wrote this week, adding that US companies "face a massive disadvantage in that if they do find success, state media and regulators find a way to cut them down to size." With the move, that giant Chinese market will now basically become a monopoly for Didi, which earlier had an influential investment from China's sovereign-wealth fund. Another one bites the dust in China, as the saying goes. |
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25% |
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That's by how much California plans to improve "freight efficiency" in the state by 2030, as part of a massive plan to makeover the freight transport sector and reduce CO2 emissions. The Sustainable Freight Action Plan, released this week by governor Jerry Brown, has some 82 goals, including employing 100,000 trucks, trains and cargo-moving machines powered by cleaner fuels or electricity by 2030, and maximizing near-zero vehicles by 2020. The ramifications of all this could be far reaching. For example, one regulation calls for requiring so-called "last mile delivery" companies such as FedEx and UPS to purchase zero-emission fleets by 2020. Next steps for state agencies will include continued work with federal, state, industry, labor, regional, local and environmental and community-based partners to refine and prioritize the strategies and actions outlined in the Action Plan. Will this spread to other states? What will be the costs? Those are the huge questions |
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