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Tech Firm Offers 10+2 Compliance
Freightgate has announced its Compliance-Trek! compliance management system, now supports the new US Customs and Border Protection 10+2 Importer Security Filing requirements...
MOL Renews GT Nexus e-commerce Portal
Mitsui OSK Lines, Ltd. (MOL) has renewed and expanded its agreement with GT Nexus for e-commerce services through the GT Nexus trade and logistics portal...
ADSI Makes Second Acquisition in 6 Months
ADSI announced the acquisition of Logistics Technology Support, LTS. The transaction was made effective, December 1, 2008...
ALK Partners With uShip.com
The transportation Web site uShip.com will use PC*Miler as an online tool for participating carriers under a new agreement with ALK Technologies...
ALK's FleetSuite Offers In-Cab Directions
Version 22 of ALK Technologies' FleetSuite uses PC*Miler 22 map data to provide for in-cab, truck-specific directions in real time...
Office Depot Selects Hubspan
Office Depot will implement Hubspan's on-demand integration platform to support customer service, according to the company...
I.D. Systems and Zetes Partner in Europe
I.D. Systems strengthswirelessly managing the productivity, safety and operational cost issues associated with material handling vehicles and operatorsfit...
New RFID Technology; Plus Airbus Signs On
On the hardware side of RFID, PowerID Ltd. announced general availability of its battery-assisted passive RFID label product using the EPCglobal Class...
Sirit to Acquire RSI ID Technologies
RSI ID Technologies is a vertical manufacturer of antennas, inlays and tags for specialized, passive RFID applications. The combination with Sirit's readers...
Tracing the Track to Transportation Success
Managing movement of assets on a vast scale in a business that changes from minute to minute is daunting. Keeping up and adjusting to those changes based...
Keeping Pace With Track and Trace
US businesses inventories have topped $1 trillion for the last several years. Keeping track of all of those goods and the assets associated with them...
Visibility Makes Service More than Bearable
One of the things we knew right off the bat was that we understand gift delivery but we recognized that our grower partners are the experts at shipping...
Avery Dennison Acquires Paxar for $1.3 Billion
The boards of directors of Avery Dennison Corp. (Pasadena, Calif.) and Paxar Corp. (White Plains, N.Y.) unanimously approved an agreement for Avery Dennison...
Infor Delivers Mobile Sales Solution for Field Reps
Infor (Atlanta) has released a new mobile order management solution that will enable field sales personnel in the distribution industry to process orders...
From Stable to Table
When bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was discovered in Canada, Atlantic Beef Products (ABP, www.abpi.ca) managers decided they needed to protect...
Follow that Trailer
Although it offers nationwide reach and moves freight north into Canada, a particularly strong service offered by Las Cruces, N.M.-based Mesilla Valley Transportation (MVT) is between the maquiladora industry in Mexico and the United States...
Microsoft Selects Intermec to Support Microsoft Technology Centers
Intermec Inc. (Everett, Wash.), a developer of RFID, will supply RFID hardware to Microsoft Technology Centers in Austin, Reston, Chicago, Boston, Silicon...
Power2Ship Officially Becomes Fittipaldi Logistics
Power2Ship, Inc. has officially changed its name to Fittipaldi Logistics, Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla.) and will now trade on the Over the Counter securities...
Contraband On Board
The U.S. government's recently enacted Secure Freight Initiative is one of several proposals to inspect cargo at foreign ports before it's shipped to...
Cardinal Health Releases Details of RFID Pilot Project
Cardinal Health, Inc. (Dublin, Ohio), the $81-billion provider of products and services supporting the health-care industry, hasreleased the results of...
Lockheed Martin Combines Supply Chain Technology Businesses
Lockheed Martin (Bethesda, Md.) formed The Savi Group to align its government in-transit visibility, cargo security and asset management efforts, with...
Researchers Track Perishables Through Cold Chain
Deloitte Consulting LLP (New York) and the RFID Research Center at the University of Arkansas (UA, Fayetteville, Ark.) are working together to monitor...
Motorola Buys Symbol for $3.9 billion
Motorola (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Symbol Technologies (Holtsville, N.Y.) have signed a $3.9 billion acquisition agreement. The purchase reportedly reflects...
Calculating On-Board Computing Benefits
Pitt Ohio performed a 90-day trial with one terminal and a limited number of trucks to determine how in-cab monitoring would fit with its operations....
It's What's In-Cab that Counts
When first introduced, in-cab computers and truck monitoring equipment met with resistance from drivers. They saw it as an example of Big Brother watching...
