From Russia With Logistics
Russia is shaping up to be a land of opportunity for those willing to take a look and seize the opportunity. But make sure you are educated regarding your options, informed about how to leverage your investment, prepared to achieve competitive advantage and strategically partnered with the proper players...
I.D. Systems Acquires GE Asset Intelligence
I.D. Systems, Inc., a provider of wireless asset management solutions, has acquired Asset Intelligence, which provides trailer and container tracking solutions for manufacturers, retailers, shippers and freight transportation providers...
Longaberger Outsources Customer Fulfillment to Exel
Longaberger, a maker of handcrafted baskets, has outsourced management of its customer fulfillment center to Exel. Exel will oversee and manage all elements of Longaberger’s order fulfillment...
Half Price Books Streamlines its Transportation and Distribution
Half Price Books has selected a solution from Manhattan Associates to manage its complex distribution process. The discount retailer will use the solution to create more efficient and environmentally responsible distribution and transportation methods...
Retail Container Traffic Ends Two-Year Decline
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports ended a nearly two-and-a-half-year streak of year-over-year declines in December and is on track to show gains through the first half of 2010...
Coming Soon: Air Cargo Inspection Regulations
As of August 2010 all cargo carried on passenger aircraft will be inspected. If the airlines end up having to screen 100% of cargo at the airports it will cause an extreme bottleneck and loss of efficiency that will be detrimental to the national economy...
Why Free Trade Is Failing America
No economic policy could better serve Americans than genuine free trade but open trade policies are failing Americans, says Professor Peter Morici. Americans are not sharing in those benefits because President Obama, like President Bush, permits China and others to cheat on the rules, unchallenged, to the detriment of the U.S. interests he was elected to champion...
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...
Construction Begins on UK’s New Logistics Park
Construction has begun at the London Gateway port site, which when completed will be Europe’s largest combined deep-sea port and logistics park. The project could result in as many as 36,000 jobs...
Accellos Acquires vSync
In its acquisition of vSync, Accellos will add EDI, fulfillment and shipping compliance expertise as well as nearly 400 Microsoft Dynamics customers...
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...
Tech Tips for Managing a Global Supply Chain
Technology can help companies better collaborate with their trading partners. Here are several considerations regarding how technology can help companies connect, communicate and collaborate with their trading partners to uncover opportunities for improvement in managing their global supply chains...
Complying with the Importer Security Filing
The day of reckoning for 10 + 2 compliance is almost here. On January 26, 2010, U.S. importers of ocean freight will not be permitted to cause cargo to be loaded onto a vessel at a foreign port without completing a properly executed Importer Security Filing (ISF)...
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...
Chubb Joins CargoNet Initiative to Reduce Cargo Theft
The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has joined the CargoNet initiative to combat cargo theft in the United States through improved information sharing between industry and law enforcement. CargoNet involves a national database and secure information sharing network, as well as education and loss prevention services...
Supply Chains Need to Integrate More Closely with Purchasing Functions
In 2010, companies will work harder to connect all departments in their supply chains on a more integrated level, particularly the purchasing and procurement functions...
CI Capital Partners Acquires Transplace
Transplace, one of the largest 3PLs in North America, has been acquired by a private investment firm, CI Capital Partners...
DHL Adds Capacity between North Asia and Europe
DHL plans to secure capacity between North Asia and Europe. Close cooperation with customers on capacity planning will help DHL secure more stable supply chains...
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...
DB Schenker Launches LTL Network in Romania
DB Schenker Romtrans has set up an LTL network in Romania, with shipments being handled through a newly established central hub in Brasov...
Americold Files to Go Public
Americold, an operator of refrigerated warehouses, plans an initial public offering of its common shares that could raise as much as $690 million...
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...
RFID Users Will Increase their Budgets in 2010
Nearly half of the companies currently using, deploying, evaluating or piloting RFID report expect their RFID budgets to increase in 2010, according to ABI Research. And 100% of those organizations with rollouts currently in progress intend to increase their RFID budgets next year...
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...
Acosta Acquires TrueDemand Software
Acosta has acquired TrueDemand Software, a provider of software and services that help consumer packaged goods companies increase sales while improving store operations, replenishment and supply chain business processes...
Recession Ends for White House but for Who Else?
Seven million families are behind on their mortgages and at risk of foreclosure, and 25 million Americans wanting full time work can’t find it, and yet the White House has declared the recession is over. Guess it depends on who you ask...
Cash Flow Is Up, Inventories Are Down
Supply chain cash flow is breaking with historic holiday norms, according to a monthly supply chain index compiled by Cortera. The unusual occurrence likely supports reports of retailers and suppliers reducing inventories this holiday season with little expectation of replenishing goods once those inventories are exhausted...
Forecast 2010: Supply Chains Must Prepare for Upward Demand Trends
Responsiveness and collaboration will be key to supply chain success across industries in 2010, predicts executives at i2 Technologies...
BASF Adopts GPS Solution to Monitor Railcars
Chemical giant BASF has adopted a GPS-based solution from GE Asset Intelligence to monitor its railcar fleet...
MIT Teams with Logistics Today on Supply Chain Risk Study
Logistics Today is collaborating with MIT to conduct a global survey of people’s experiences and attitudes toward supply chain risks and risk management...
The Shifting Priorities of Green Transportation
The logistics industry must take the lead on developing and implementing green technologies in ways that increase productivity, facilitate better management visibility, optimize operational costs and contribute toward environment substantially...
GXS and Inovis Agree to Merge
GXS and Inovis, two rival providers of B2B e-commerce services and software solutions, have signed a definitive agreement to merge. The merger should be completed by mid-2010...
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