Amazon.com Inc. is taking a $1.2 billion step toward self-driving delivery vehicles. The e-commerce giant reached an agreement to acquire autonomous-car developer Zoox, the WSJ’s Tim Higgins and Matt Grossman report, putting Amazon’s resources behind a business that has struggled recently to raise funding after rapid initial growth. Amazon has been circling that market, and has taken part in fundraising rounds for Aurora Innovation Inc. and Rivian Automotive LLC, companies that also are working on autonomous-vehicle development. The Zoox research has been aimed at creating robot taxis running on electricity. But autonomous vehicles could provide the company the foundation for self-driving technology in delivery networks, suggesting the Zoox deal may resemble Amazon’s 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems for $775 million. That robotics business has been at the center of Amazon’s rapid expansion of its logistics network, and accelerated a trend toward automation in warehousing.

A Dutch food-delivery giant is finding success by driving against the prevailing traffic in the sector. Just Eat Takeaway.com NV is building its business on the belief that restaurants will handle the actual delivery of food themselves, the WSJ’s Heather Haddon and Parmy Olson write, a strategy it is bringing to the U.S. with its $7 billion deal to buy Grubhub Inc. Both companies have some driver networks of their own, but their businesses largely revolve around taking a cut from restaurants and chains that use their websites to advertise and take orders. More than three-quarters of Just Eat’s deliveries globally are done by the restaurants themselves, while Grubhub handles about half its own deliveries. That allows the companies to sidestep the costs of building large fleets with big workforces. The idea is to solve difficult and costly last-mile logistics by having someone else handle it.

The coronavirus pandemic is challenging the humanitarian relief operations that have been built after a series of natural disasters and medical crises. From chartered freighter flights between China and North America to specialized warehouses in the U.S. and Europe, the relief operations have ramped up rapidly globally. The WSJ Logistics Report’s Costas Paris writes the efforts have rushed medicine, ventilators and protective equipment to hard-hit regions. Some of the efforts supported the White House’s Project Airbridge program. Private companies have undertaken operations with protocols and systems established after events such as the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia. Among the actions, United Parcel Service Inc. set up a logistics facility at its Louisville, Ky., air hub for federal supplies, freight forwarders including Seko Worldwide Inc. have teamed with relief groups and Maersk Line tasked a special logistics unit with moving several planeloads of supplies to Canada.

U.S. consumer spending jumped 8.2% from April to May while personal income declined 4.2%. (WSJ)

BP PLC has agreed to sell its petrochemicals business to British chemicals company Ineos in a $5 billion deal. (WSJ)

A man armed with a semi-automatic rifle shot and killed one person at a Walmart distribution center in Red Bluff, Calif., before he was killed by police. (Associated Press)

Medical-grade N95 masks shortages are developing as coronavirus cases spread in the U.S. (WSJ)

The World Health Organization and two nonprofits plan to procure two billion doses of eventual coronavirus vaccines for distribution in developing nations. (WSJ)

U.S. air-safety regulators are prepared to begin key flight tests of Boeing’s 737 MAX jet as early as Monday. (WSJ)

Pakistan will pursue criminal charges against pilots found to have obtained fraudulent flying licenses. (WSJ)

Delta Air Lines will send notices next week to over 2,500 pilots warning of potential furloughs. (WSJ)

Microsoft is closing all its physical storefronts and exiting the bricks-and-mortar retail business. (WSJ)

Hydrauling fracking pioneer Chesapeake Energy filed for bankruptcy protection. (WSJ)

Fracking sand supplier Hi-Crush is negotiating the terms of a chapter 11 bankruptcy filing with lenders. (WSJ)

Firearms manufacturer Remington Arms is preparing to file for chapter 11 protection and is in talks for a potential sale to the Navajo Nation. (WSJ)

Hitachi Construction Machinery will stop manufacturing equipment in Europe by the end of next year and switch to exports from Japan. (Nikkei Asian Review)

Container lines are sending a growing number of small vessels on faster voyages on trans-Pacific routes. (Bloomberg)

Container shipping lines are increasingly cooperating on inland transport. (Journal of Commerce)

Truck maker Navistar International named Persio Lisboa president and chief executive officer as Troy Clarke became executive chairman. (Chicago Tribune)

United Parcel Service cut China-U.S. surcharges it had added because of high demand and tight capacity on the lane. (Supply Chain Dive)

United Airlines will restore some U.S.-China flights starting July 8. (Reuters)

The Dutch government and several banks will provide a $3.8 billion financing package to Air France-KLM. (MarketWatch)

A Clarksons Platou offshore broker was barred from working in Singapore after breaking the country’s coronavirus restrictions. (TradeWinds)

Paul Page is editor of WSJ Logistics Report. Write to him at paul.page@wsj.com.

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