Recent News from Outsourced Logistics
Exel Expands Scope of Healthcare Logistics
Exel and DHL Supply Chain have doubled the number of global depots service the clinical trials logistics market. The expansion aims to widen global research efforts in the fight against major illnesses...
Small and Mid-sized Companies See Signs of Recovery
Despite rising energy costs and dim employment data, small and mid-sized manufacturers see signs for optimism, according to a new survey of CFOs. The top supply chain strategy for weathering the recession has been reducing inventory levels...
Barkawi Opens North American Office
Barkawi, a German-based provider of supply chain consulting services, has launched its North American operation in Atlanta. The new office will be headed by former Servigistics executive Mike Landry...
Global Partners Teams with Canadian Pacific to Increase Ethanol Capacity
Global Partners has announced a multi-million-dollar project that will add 180,000 barrels of ethanol storage capacity and rail access at its refined petroleum products terminal in Albany, New York. Developed jointly with Canadian Pacific Railway, the project, expected to be operational in 2010, will enable the Albany terminal to schedule the delivery of 80-car trains of ethanol...
Panalpina Expands Supply Chain Capabilities in Los Angeles
Panalpina Los Angeles, a supplier of forwarding and logistics services, has added 42,000 square feet of warehouse space, extending the company’s portfolio of supply chain management services to clients in Southern California and beyond...
Central and Eastern Europe Hold Opportunities for U.S. Exporters
The “other Europe” comprises a $2 trillion market, as business regulation reforms over the past five years have made this region much more accessible and easier for U.S. companies to do business with...
Moulton Logistics Plans New DC Near Charleston
Moulton Logistics Management, a provider of order fulfillment, call center and integrated logistics services, will locate its new distribution and logistics facility in Berkeley County, South Carolina. The $25 million investment is expected to generate 500 new jobs in the next five years...
Air Transport Industry Recovering Faster Than Expected
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) halved its loss forecast for 2010 to $2.8 billion (compared to the $5.6 billion loss forecast in December 2009). The improvement is largely driven by a much stronger recovery in demand seen by year-end gains that continued into the first months of 2010. Relatively flat capacity translated into some yield improvement and stronger revenues...
TBB Global Partners with LoJack on Cargo Security
TBB Global Logistics has formed a partnership with LoJack Supply Chain Integrity which allows TBB to provide customers with the LoJack’s in-transit cargo protection technology solution...
2009 Was the Safest Year Ever for Freight Railroads
The year 2009 was the safest year in freight railroad history. Preliminary year-end data indicate the train accident rate, employee casualty rate and grade crossing incident rates were all at record low levels last year...
Schneider Rolls Out In-Cab Technology
Motor carrier Schneider National has equipped 25% of its fleet with driver in-cab technology, and is on pace to convert all of its existing in-cab technology to a new system by this fall...
Caterpillar Shifts from Offshoring to Onshoring Back to the U.S.A.
Caterpillar Inc. has undertaken a study that could lead to a new hydraulic excavator facility being built in the United States, as part of the growing trend toward onshoring—bringing production work back to the United States to reduce global supply chain management costs. Such a move significantly increase Caterpillar’s employment in the U.S. dedicated to excavator production...
Smart Software Awarded Grant to Study Intermittent Demand Forecasting
Smart Software Inc., has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation to extend and improve its current intermittent demand forecasting solution by developing an advanced proprietary method. The new research will aim to improve demand forecasting and planning of service/spare parts...
Team 3 Logistics Launches to Serve Auto Industry
Kenco Logistic Services LLC (KLS), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Kal-Serv, has partnered with Schnellecke of America LLC to form Team 3 Logistics LLC. This new joint venture will offer logistic solutions to support automotive production in the Southeastern United States...
Retail Container Traffic Could Be Up 13 Percent in March
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to be up 13% in March 2010 compared with the same month a year ago, and double-digit increases are expected to continue through the summer as the U.S. economy begins in improve...
Economy Is Top Priority for Consumer Goods Companies
Consumer goods manufacturers have a very different opinion about the importance of retail-supplier relations compared to their retailer customers. Retailers rank retail-supplier relations, which covers such issues as trade costs, pricing and collaboration, as only the eighth-most important priority, while manufacturers rank it second...
Industrial Real Estate Market Is Still Way Down
Overall industrial demand for real estate remains weak and occupancy losses in many markets during 2009 could prolong the length of the industrial down cycle. However, increased import activity is helping demand at gateway cities and interior supply network hubs...
How to Enhance Your Supply Chain Visibility
Visibility is critical in optimizing and improving the performance of your supply chain. Ryder’s Control Tower facilitates the centralized collection and distribution of part and SKU level data with an emphasis on visibility and proactive exception management...
Saint-Gobain Streamlines Supply Chain Transactions
Saint-Gobain Corp., a building materials manufacturer and distributor, will use a Sterling Commerce solution to integrate ERP systems and automate business processes among its customers and suppliers with the aim of achieving enhanced productivity, improved supply chain management and a stronger competitive edge...
RFID Market to Hit $5.35 Billion in 2010
The market for RFID technology will continue to see steady growth for at least the next five years, as new “modernizing” applications come to the fore...
Obama’s Economic Policies Are Out to Sea
Continuing job losses indicate President Obama’s stimulus spending and support for the banks have failed to turn the economy around, observes economist Peter Morici. Eight months into the much touted recovery, the economy should be adding jobs not losing jobs at a slower pace. No study of economic history could yield a conclusion other than that the U.S. economy is in danger of falling into a double dip recession...
Swissport Deploys Dimensioning Systems Across Global Network
Thanks to a partnership between Swissport International, a provider of ground services to the aviation sector, and technology provider FreightScan, Swissport is installing automated dimensioning systems in facilities across its global network, offering an enhanced level of cargo handling services to airlines...
Old Dominion Opens Free Trade Zone Facility in Southeast
LTL carrier Old Dominion Freight Line has opened a new warehouse facility that also will headquarter its OD-Warehousing and Distribution Services Division, in Thomasville, N.C. The new warehouse facility includes an established Free Trade Zone...
Georgia Ports Expands Refrigerated Cargo Volume
Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) has added a new set of electrified refrigerated container racks, and can now accommodate 1,056 containers. The expansion will also reduce diesel fuel consumption...
Supply Chains Are Putting Down Greener Roots
Green is the movement of the day for supply chains, as companies are utilizing techniques such as designing a building so that it significantly reduces the amount of water needed for operation, or locating a site so that it does not disturb any nearby wetlands, soil or streams...
LeSaint Logistics and Royal Chemical Launch Supply Chain Service
LeSaint Logistics and Royal Chemical are teaming up to provide a closed loop chemical solution, combining the capabilities of manufacturing, warehousing, inventory fulfillment and transportation...
Con-way Freight Reduces Accident Frequency Rate by 13 Percent
Con-way Freight has announced that 2009 was its best year for safety since 2003. The LTL carrier reduced its accident frequency rate and earned more than 70 industry safety awards in 2009...
Companies Seek Ways Out of the Regulatory Compliance Money Pit
Growing global concern over environmental and safety issues is spinning a global web of trade and security programs that impact both importers and exporters, and both products and their movement. Nearly half of supply chain professionals are supporting their internal regulatory compliance departments with external resources...
American Airlines Opens Cargo Facility at JFK Airport
American Airlines Cargo Division (AA Cargo) has opened its newly relocated cargo terminal at JFK International Airport in New York. The facility offers more than 135,000 square feet of warehouse space and 24 dock doors...
Top 10 Predictions for Global Supply Chains
Companies will evolve from a fixed-cost-driven supply network to a variable-cost-driven value network...
Which Are Greener: Trains or Trucks?
In some cases, motor carriers are more fuel efficient than railroads...
Marsh Supermarkets Adopts Promotion Optimization Technology
Midwest supermarket chain Marsh Supermarkets is partnering with Revionics to better price and promote based on advanced pricing analytics and scenario planning technology...
UPS Opens New Distribution Center in Calgary
UPS has opened a new distribution center at the Calgary International Airport (YYC) to provide businesses with direct access to the U.S. and international markets. The $30 million facility is designed to expedite international shipments...
Clean Energy Expands Network of LNG Truck Fueling Stations
Clean Energy Fuels plans to expand its existing network of LNG truck fueling stations in Southern California this year beyond the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports complex. New or upgraded fueling facilities are planned for strategic points along truck transport routes in various California cities, as part of the company’s plans to expand throughout the Southwestern United States...
Freight Rates Are Stabilizing in Canada
According to the Canadian General Freight Index, although the cost of ground transportation for Canadian shippers declined by 9.6% since December of 2008, freight costs appear to be stabilizing in early 2010...
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