Flexport is jumping deeper into e-commerce fulfillment as it aims its freight-forwarding business more directly at retailers. The digital-focused operator is buying Shopify’s logistics business, including the Deliverr technology platform and dozens of warehouses and sorting centers. The WSJ’s Liz Young and Dana Mattioli report the transaction sets up Flexport as a potential rival to Amazon for fulfillment services for merchants that sell goods online. That’s familiar territory for Flexport CEO Dave Clark, the former Amazon executive who spearheaded the e-commerce market leader’s enormous expansion of its logistics network. With the sale of Deliverr and of warehouse robotics company 6 River Systems to U.K. online grocer Ocado, Shopify is effectively abandoning efforts to stand up its own logistics operation. Mr. Clark says Flexport’s logistics service now will allow merchants to handle imports and last-mile delivery through one platform, and to fulfill orders through their own websites and stores.

Ford is hitting new supply-chain problems on the assembly line for its top-selling pickup trucks. The automaker suspended work at three plants over the weekend where it makes both gasoline and electric versions of the F-150 pickup truck. The WSJ’s Nora Eckert reports the company was unable to get the right door handles, a stark reminder of the logistics snarls and parts shortages over the past two years that idled assembly lines across the automotive sector. Production has resumed at Ford’s facilities, but workers are building some trucks with substitute handles as a stopgap to keep the assembly line moving. While parts shortages have plagued other carmakers, Ford executives have been candid that some of its financial difficulties have been rooted in its own poor supply-chain management. For now, the incomplete trucks are parked and shipments to customers are on hold until the right handles can be swapped in.

Some of the latest attempts to bring new technology to trucking are focused on where the rubber quite literally meets the road. Tire manufacturers including Goodyear Tire & Rubber and Bridgestone are aiming to equip the tires for autonomous vehicles with sensors that can gather and relay data on road conditions. The WSJ’s Isabelle Bousquette reports the tiremakers hope to play a critical role in the burgeoning world of self-driving vehicles, although the companies first will have to clear technical roadblocks. Among the challenges are figuring how to power the process and how to integrate data from the tires with other information flowing through the tech-laced vehicles. Some of the research is targeting practical information for commercial trucking. Goodyear is working with self-driving truck company Gatik to have tires gather hyperlocal weather data to make autonomous driving safer in rainy or snowy conditions.

• New orders for Class 8 heavy-duty trucks in North America declined sharply in April. (Logistics Management)
• Hyundai Motor will start selling its hydrogen fuel cell heavy-duty truck in the U.S. next year. (Commercial Carrier Journal)
• Knight-Swift Transportation plans to add 11 terminals to its less-than-truckload operations. (Transport Dive)

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates another quarter-percentage point and signaled it may pause further increases. (WSJ)

ADP says private-sector employment jumped by 296,000 to a nine-month high in April. (MarketWatch)

Iran seized an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, in the second such incident in less than a week. (WSJ)

DHL parent Deutsche Post says a decline in business-to-business package volumes has stabilized following a 24% decline in first-quarter operating profit. (MarketWatch)

CVS Health lowered its outlook for the year as it incorporates recent big acquisitions. (WSJ)

Kraft Heinz’s first-quarter sales rose 7.3% on higher prices but the food supplier’s sales volumes declined. (WSJ)

Sandra MacQuillan, a longtime supply-chain executive at some of the world’s largest consumer brands, died after a long battle with cancer. (WSJ)

New measures show container shipping rates rising again after a downward turn over the past month. (Seatrade Maritime)

Dry-bulk operator Pangaea Logistics is buying two terminals in Florida and one at the Port of Baltimore. (Maritime Executive)

Japan Airlines is adding three 767-300 freighters to its fleet in a bid for greater regional e-commerce business. (Bloomberg)

Discount retailer Tuesday Morning is shutting down after entering bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years. (Houston Chronicle)

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

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