Dunavant’s mobile devices linked to intermodal TMS empower contract drivers. By Eric Johnson Visibility has become so pervasive in the field of logistics management that it has largely obscured the […]
Logistics innovation enables merging of e-commerce, store supply chains as retailers race to implement omni-channel strategy. By Eric Kulisch The globalization of the Internet spawned electronic commerce and simplified shopping for […]
Gemini’s joint venture with logistics partner built on long-time trust. By Chris Dupin Gemini Shippers Association has forged a joint venture with Vizion Logistics to provide transport for smaller shipments […]
So, you’re a shipper who wants to tap into the burgeoning export markets you’ve heard so much about. And, oh yeah, you’re not exactly Apple or Pepsi. What […]
Survey finds Europe ahead of U.S. shippers and carriers on embracing sustainability. By Chris Dupin While environmental sustainability is becoming an increasingly significant issue for customers and senior management, “cost […]
Office Depot’s hybrid, omni-channel supply chain balances demand cues, logistics factors. By Eric Kulisch Office supply stores are at the forefront of the omni-channel trend in retail to create a single […]
Global logistics and warehousing provider Katoen Natie has selected Ruckus Wireless’ Smart WiFi products for installation in its warehouses around the world. Katoen Natie will outfit its inventory-management […]
Truck drivers that shuttle containers to and from the Port of Los Angeles began a 24-hour strike against employer, Green Fleet Systems, at the start of the 5 p.m. shift […]
Yusen Logistics has opened its third warehouse in Laem Chabang, Thailand, bringing its total holdings in Thailand to 200,000 square meters. The new facility is located at the […]
Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Supply Chain Solutions has signed a five-year lease for a 70,000-square-foot warehouse in Carol Stream, Ill. The 11-door facility can be expanded by another 70,000 […]
A.P. Moller-Maersk reported a profit of $856 million in the second quarter ending June 30, 11 percent less than the $965 million earned in the second quarter of 2012. […]
“K” Line Zhenhua Logistics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. has opened a new warehouse in a Logistics Park of Shanghai Lingang New Town. The two-story, 43,890-square-meter warehouse is located on […]
Crowley Maritime Corp. said it has tripled its bonded warehouse space in Panama and consolidated its liner and logistics teams to a new shared location in Panama City. […]
DSC Logistics has broken ground on a retail consolidation logistics center in Moreno Valley, Calif. Due for completion late this year, Kraft Foods Group will be the first […]
Itasca, Ill.-based freight forwarder AIT Worldwide Logistics has expanded its presence in the Midwest by adding a new office in Omaha, Neb. The Omaha office includes two dozen […]
In a speech at the Port of Jacksonville Thursday, President Barack Obama said Congress needs to move faster modernizing the nation’s ports to support new trade trends that will […]
Alabama Steel Terminals will develop a new $36 million steel coil handling facility at the Alabama State Port Authority’s main docks complex in Mobile. AST will construct the 372,600-square-foot warehouse […]
Seized switchblades. A trade enforcement team from U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized a shipment of 2,400 switchblades and 1,200 butterfly combs from China last month in Baltimore for violating […]
DHL Global Forwarding said Friday it has started two new less-than-containerload (LCL) services from India to China. The services connect Nhava Sheva and Chennai, India’s two largest container […]
The professional services and investment management firm Jones Lang LaSalle has named the Port of New York and New Jersey as the top U.S. seaport according three factors: availability […]
APL Logistics said Monday it has launched an online sales channel for Walmart in Mexico. The new solution, which includes a warehouse management system, integrates with Walmart’s new […]
Filings come from California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, New York and Texas.
NorthPoint Development and NAI Capital Realty have arranged a long-term lease with Demdaco for a 326,650-square-foot distribution center at Logistics Park Kansas City. Demdaco specializes in gift and […]
Atlanta-based freight forwarder Cargo Brokers International will use the ediEnterprise system developed by forwarder and logistics enterprise system developer CargoWise. Cargo Brokers Chief Executive Officer Carsten Steinmetz said […]
Global shippers try to influence end to hazardous sweatshops in Bangladesh. By Jon Ross On April 24, more than 1,000 workers sewing T-shirts, shorts and other clothing in a Bangladesh […]
U.S. transport policy slowly incorporates freight, but infrastructure upgrades lag. By Eric Kulisch The recent collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge into the Skagit River north of Seattle focused attention once […]
The Sahil Group and Sahil Freight Express will open the 44,000-square-foot packaging and warehousing facility in Mumbai by Sept. 1. The owners are currently looking for a joint-venture […]
A long-planned barge service between the Ports of Stockton and Oakland, Calif., began operation on Sunday evening. A barge loaded with 32 40-foot containers filled with animal feed […]
To take further advantage of the increased trade between the United States and Mexico, CEVA has added a bonded trucking program targeted at Mexican importers and a new intermodal […]
Norbert Dentressangle has purchased the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese logistics operations of Fiege for an undisclosed amount. By picking up Fiege Borruso and FLI spa, a pharmaceutical operation, […]
DHL Supply Chain announced that it will invest INR 650 million ($11.7 million) in its new 320,000-square-foot warehouse in Luhari, Delhi, anchored by Proctor & Gamble. The company […]
Mexico, once again, becomes attractive to U.S. shippers. By Jon Ross In today’s burgeoning trade between the United States and Mexico, a business that reached nearly $500 billion in 2012, […]
Atlanta is the new Miami. Dallas-Forth Worth is the new Los Angeles. If only targeting a new air cargo gateway were as easy as making a simple declaration of […]
DHL Supply Chain will invest 10 million euros ($12.9 million) in Vietnam over the next two years, hiring new staff, upgrading current infrastructure and building a new facility in […]
Yusen Logistics (Americas) will open a new 229,000-square-foot warehouse in Chicago on May 20 that will employ 170 people. The warehouse will include 185,000 square feet dedicated to […]
Kuehne + Nagel is opening an office in the Russian Far East port city of Vladivostok. The new office will be managed by the operation in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk where K+N […]
‘The transition continues and there is no turning back.’ By Chris Dupin Container carriers are continuing the push to reduce the size of their U.S. chassis fleets, but their […]
CEVA Logistics has signed a five-year e-commerce contract with fashion apparel company Liu-Jo, providing the firm with online sales solutions like returns management and overseeing transportation activities across Europe. […]
DB Schenker has acquired 100 percent of the shares of long-term partner Euro-Line Panamericana in Panama. The German logistics firm will operate the business under Schenker (Panama), S.A. […]
The Global Shippers’ Forum said it has begun a campaign to enhance safety in the maritime transport supply chain. “While the vast majority of shippers comply with the rules, […]
Toll Global Forwarding has broken ground on a 2.65-acre, 70,000-square-foot facility near London Heathrow’s cargo village. The development, which will include 50,000 square feet of warehouse space, replaces […]
Dachser has opened its first bonded container freight station and bonded warehouse in the United States near the Miami International Airport. According to the third party logistics company, the […]
Damco, the logistics services arm of A.P. Moller-Maersk, has opened a 16,000-square-meter warehouse in Cambodia, adding to its first facility in the Southeast Asian country which opened in August 2011. […]
DHL will break ground this month in Tokyo on the 44,000-square-meter Sagamihara Logistics Center, a development that will spur $50 million in investment over the next 10 years, according […]
Walter Kemmsies, chief economist of Moffatt & Nichol, said Thursday he is forecasting import cargo volumes in the peak season this year could be 5 percent higher than in […]
TAGG Logistics will consolidate its three sites around St. Louis next month by opening a 200,000-square-foot facility next to the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The development will include […]
Local government and industry officials at three ports on the opposite end of the spectrum in California are lobbying members of Congress and U.S. Customs to adjust how the […]
At the end of last month, Ryder System surpassed its goal of hiring 1,000 veterans by the end of the year, a pledge made in November 2011 as part […]
Hanson Logistics, a St. Joseph, Mich.-based temperature-controlled warehouse provider, has started the third phase of its Chicago consolidation center, located in Hobart, Ind. The expansion is part of […]
An effort by the state of Delaware to attract private investment in the Port of Wilmington has stalled. In a letter to Alan Levin, director of the Delaware Economic […]
ModusLink is moving to a 15,200-square-meter distribution center in Venray, the Netherlands, that will employ between 350 and 500 people to replace its current location in Apeldoorn. The […]
Supply Chain Solutions, a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based logistics services firm, will lease 38,500 square feet at a warehouse in Lafayette, Ind., near Interstate 65, as part of its ongoing […]
Third party logistics provider Sunland Distribution has acquired a 722,000-square-foot warehouse located off Interstates 85 and 385 in Simpsonville, S.C. The 32-acre property along with the building was […]
DHL Supply Chain will invest 40 million euros ($52 million) in Indonesia during the next few years, more than doubling its vehicle fleet, increasing its employment base by nearly two […]
What this past year has taught the shipping industry is just how powerful unionized dock labor on both coasts has become in the United States and how much of […]
Proximity to West Florida port is key attraction for LNG equipment maker. By Chris Dupin The natural gas industry in the United States is booming and dozens of shipping terminals […]
NewAge Software & Solutions, a provider of enterprise applications for freight forwarding and logistics companies, has moved into the North American market, led by industry veterans Michael Sinclair and […]
Matson Logistics, a provider of multimodal transportation, warehousing, and distribution services, has obtained distribution center space in Savannah, Ga. “Our new operation expands on our ability to move […]
On Feb. 16, 30 armed men forced their way into a warehouse in the Sao Paulo-based industrial park Centro Logistico Brasil, stealing an unknown number of tablet computers and smartphones, […]
The industrial real estate developer Prologis said Wednesday it inked a deal to build two distribution centers for BMW of North America. Construction of the two facilities, in […]
Eimskip said it will add Portland, Maine as a port of call in the end of March 2013, replacing the port in Norfolk, Va. The Icelandic shipping company […]
Weber Logistics has formed an alliance with Aspen Logistics to better spread the influence of the two logistics service providers in the western United States. Connie Anderson, the owner of […]
Air France-KLM-Martinair Cargo has released a Varation Pharma Control 15-25 C product. Targeted at temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical shipments, AF-KLM guarantees that each shipment will be kept within that temperature […]
Preparations for Valentine’s Day, the annual onslaught of flower shipments from around the world, have begun. Saudi Cargo has added four extra freighter flights between Nairobi and Amsterdam […]
Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s Local 63 Office Clerical Unit rejected some of the proposed contracts that were reached with employers last December during ratification voting on […]
DB Schenker is planning to construct a 41 million euros ($55 million), 54,520-square-foot logistics center in Singapore. The warehouse — which will be geared toward the healthcare, electronics […]
The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday said five individuals and five corporations have been charged in an indictment unsealed in Brooklyn, N.Y., for allegedly importing hazardous and counterfeit toys […]
The North Carolina Council of State Tuesday voted to approve a lease that gives the go-ahead to a public-private partnership seeking to construct a cold storage facility at the […]
Crowley Maritime Corp. and Customized Brokers, the company’s customs broker, have opened a new cold storage warehouse facility, Crowley Fresh, located in Miami. A joint offering from Crowley […]
The supply chain executive software developer Accellos said Tuesday it has partnered with business and technology consultancy West Monroe Partners to add West Monroe’s proprietary FLEXdls labor management software […]
The logistics services provider GAC said Monday it has started construction of its new office and warehouse in Houston. The facility is located in Houston’s Central Green Business […]
The steady growth of transloading in Southern California is welcomed by officials at the local ports because it represents an opportunity to attract more import cargo, but the trend […]
The Alabama State Port Authority has approved $11.5 million in new contracts for the construction for a rail access bridge and expanded for another year Moffatt and Nichol’s engineering and […]
BX Solutions, a Toledo, Ohio-based multimodal company borne from the debris of BAX Global, has added a time-definite, airport-to-airport trucking service to its 31 markets. Expansion of the […]
Saddle Creek Logistics Services will open a 225,000-square-foot facility in Birmingham, Ala., on Feb. 1. The new development is a relocation of an existing wine logistics customer’s distribution […]
By Eric Kulisch Yusen Logistics (Americas) and Pacer Distribution Services are two of the biggest providers of transloading services in the Los Angeles area, and visits to their facilities […]
Part 1 of 2: Midsized shippers could drive growth of import consolidation strategy in SoCal. By Eric Kulisch More freight imported through the Los Angeles basin is being transloaded into 53-foot […]
Will social media tools and EMS transform transportation and logistics communications? By Eric Johnson Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are all household names at this point, public vehicles of informed […]
A day after news broke that the UPS and TNT Express merger was dead in the water, DHL announced it had secured a contract with Panasonic for warehousing and […]
Port Logistics Group has acquired the Washington-based warehousing and transportation provider Pacific Distribution, adding more than 600,000 square feet of warehouse space to its 4 million-square-foot portfolio. The new […]
A group of shippers, known as the Coalition for Responsible Transportation, is partnering with the Port of Jacksonville in a voluntary initiative to reduce air pollution caused by shuttle trucks serving […]
The Taiwan subsidiary of Yusen Logistics has been certified by China Customs as an authorized economic operator (AEO) since the start of December, the company said Wednesday. Yusen […]
Intelligrated, a North American-based automated material handling solutions provider, said late last week that it has acquired Ossining, N.Y.-based supply chain software developer Knighted. Intelligrated described the acquisition as […]
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By Eric Kulisch Delta Air Lines, the world’s largest passenger airline, and fast-growing Emirates of Dubai exemplify the different attitudes towards freighter aircraft among passenger airlines that also haul […]
Pfizer uses sophisticated IT, fewer 3PLs to deliver products efficiently worldwide. By Chris Dupin Pfizer makes some of the most important and advanced life-saving drugs in the world and is redesigning its […]
Weak economy, oversupply of ships, other challenges make 2013 a bumpy year for shippers. By Chris Dupin Aweak global economy and continuous deliveries of large new containerships seem […]
Millard Refrigerated Services announced plans Wednesday to develop and operate a $42 million refrigerated warehouse in Charleston County, S.C. The company said the cold storage facility, located at the […]
Non-vessel-operating common carrier Shipco Transport will open a new International Cargo Terminals (ICT) export warehouse in Long Beach, Calif., on Jan. 7. ICT, with warehouses in Elizabeth, N.J. […]
Several grain terminals in the Pacific Northwest trying to negotiate a new contract with workers said Monday evening that they were rejecting the most recent offer from the International Longshore […]
The Florida East Coast Railway in October launched a new two-day intermodal service from Nashville, Tenn., to Miami designed to reduce trucking challenges into South Florida. It is the […]
CBP solidifies ties with Israel Customs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is laying the ground work for an agreement to mutually recognize the Israeli Tax Authority’s Authorized Economic Operator program. […]
Contract talks resume today between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and its employers, represented by the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX), in Delray Beach, Fla. Shipper groups are urging the two […]
Menlo Worldwide Logistics has agreed to provide JF Hillebrand Singapore with warehousing and inventory management services for its client, whisky distiller William Grant & Sons. Menlo, which has […]
Nearly 100 trade associations from around the country — groups representing the interests of retailers, manufacturers, farmers and transportation companies — sent a letter today asking President Obama to […]
A strike by members of the 600 members of International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 63, Office Clerical Unit (OCU) enters its second week today. Meanwhile, American Shipper has […]
As the Christmas shopping season kicks into high gear, the heads of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and U.S. Customs appeared on the Today Show and at a New […]
The Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers (PNGH), an association of export grain terminals, said Thursday they have extended a deadline for acceptance of its contract offer to the International Longshore […]
A strike by longshoremen crippled the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Wednesday, spreading from one to 10 terminals in the two ports. Phillip Sanfield, a […]
The National Retail Federation has urged President Obama “to use all means necessary” to restart stalled contract negotiations between management and striking union workers at the Ports of Los […]
