Dow and Menlo Open New DC in Michigan
The Dow Chemical Company and Menlo Worldwide Logistics have opened a new 134,000-square-foot warehousing and distribution operation in Bay City, Mich. The facility will provide strategic warehousing and distribution services for Dow Wolff Cellulosics products. Dow and Menlo also designed a new transportation management program for inbound and outbound freight shipments...
Logistics Rises to the Occasion in Haiti
How would you react if your local airport wasn’t just closed down for a day due to inclement weather, but indefinitely? How would you deal with inbound and outbound logistics if the one major seaport in your supply chain was utterly destroyed? How would you cope with a catastrophe that took the lives of more than 100,000 people...
Import Traffic Best in Two Years at Port of Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach is reporting the first increases in monthly container cargo numbers in two years. Imported cargo increased by more than 13% in December 2009 from the same time period a year ago, and exports jumped by more than 30%...
AirLink Joins Aidmatrix to Coordinate Haitian Earthquake Relief
Aidmatrix is partnering with ISTAT’S AirLink to help facilitate the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid for the Haitian earthquake. AirLink will use the Aidmatrix Network’s technology to connect airline capacity to humanitarian need while connecting the ISTAT membership with the hundreds of NGOs currently posting transportation needs on the network...
Kansas State Opens Center to Study Wind Energy Supply Chain
A center of excellence has opened at Kansas State University to meet the growing demand to increase component and wind energy related supply chain capacity, reduce logistic costs, and increase U.S. manufactured content...
Warehousing Consolidation Program Can Reduce Shipper Costs
CaseStack, a 3PL, has expanded its Retailer Consolidation Program to Chicago. By partnering with retailers and manufacturers, CaseStack combines multiple LTL shipments headed to the same retailer distribution center onto one truck, helping to reduce cost and increase efficiency for all three parties...
FedEx Freight Announces General Rate Increase of 5.9%
FedEx Freight and FedEx National LTL, subsidiaries of FedEx Corp., will implement 5.9% general rate increases (GRI) effective February 1, 2010...
Port Everglades Waives Tariff Charges for Earthquake Relief
Broward County’s Port Everglades, one of the largest containerized cargo seaports in the Eastern United States, is waiving all tariff charges for qualifying cargo and the ships delivering relief supplies to Haiti...
UPS Lays Off 1,800 Employees
Good financial news at UPS isn’t enough to save 1,800 employees from losing their jobs. The company also plans to streamline its domestic management structure...
Old Dominion Announces General Rate Increase of 4.4%
Less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier Old Dominion Freight Line Inc. will be increasing its base rates an average of 4.4% effective January 18, 2010...
MIT Study Identifies Effective Carbon Management Strategies
MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics has singled out a carbon management approach as being potentially up to 25% more accurate than other approaches...
FedEx Freight Revenues Down 11% in Second Quarter
Revenues for FedEx Freight were down 11% in the second quarter compared to the comparable quarter a year ago. However, revenues for FedEx Ground were up 3% over the same period....
APL Launches $11 Million Clean Air Project in Oakland
APL is launching an $11 million clean air project to cut vessel emissions and improve air quality at the Port of Oakland. The project will be based on cold-ironing....
New BDP Offering Targets Oil & Gas Supply Chain
BDP Oil and Gas Logistics Pte Ltd. Inc., headquartered in Singapore. The new company will target growing opportunities in the global oil and gas supply chain...
Spot Freight Up 65 Percent in November
Spot market freight availability increased by 65% in November 2009 compared to last year, according to the TransCore Freight Index, a measure of truckload freight volume...
DHL Delivers Holiday Gifts to U.S. Troops in Middle East
DHL Express is delivering hundreds of holiday trees, decorations and gifts to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan...
NAM Urges White House to Modernize Export Control System
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) is urging the White House to modernize the export control system by tightening controls on truly sensitive technology and simplifying controls on technology that is not critical to national security—and is readily available from other countries...
Rail Carload Volumes Still Down, but Improving
November freight rail carloadings were down 8.2% compared with the same month last year. However, if Thanksgiving week were excluded, November would have been the highest volume month of the year for U.S. railroads...
IANA Launches Global Intermodal Equipment Registry
The Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) has launched its Global Intermodal Equipment Registry (GIER), an equipment-marking alternative which eliminates the need to physically capture and mark intermodal equipment in order to meet the roadability compliance guidelines...
Rosenau Transport Gains Real-Time Visibility to Customers
LTL carrier Rosenau Transport will provide real-time visibility to its customers thanks to its use of the Cheetah Freight solution....
Adams and Son Changes Name to Adams Industries
Adams and Son Trucking has changed its name to Adams Industries...
YRC Sells its Dedicated Contract Carriage Business to Greatwide
YRC Logistics has sold its U.S. dedicated contract carriage business to Greatwide Logistics Services for $34 million...
New Service Protects In-Transit Food from Spoilage
Carrier Transicold has launched the Purfresh Transport service to offer a chemical-free means to protect produce cargoes from spoilage...
Horizon Launches Asia-to-U.S. Service
Horizon Logistics launches 3PL services for Asia-to-U.S. importers...
UPS Announces Rate Hikes for 2010
UPS has announced an average increase of 4.9% for ground packages and an average increase of 4.9% on all air express and U.S. origin international shipments for 2010...
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