A. Duie Pyle announces opening of new service center in Bronx, N.Y.
Company officials said this new service center will augment its Northeast network and boost its morning delivery and pickup operations in metropolitan New York and Long Island.
UPS EVP/CCO Gershenhorn to retire after 38 years of service in June
Gershenhorn has worn many hats for the transportation and logistics titan, including leading corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, marketing, public affairs, communications, and several key growth strategies across the enterprise.
CBRE research makes the case for continued U.S. industrial real estate growth in 2018
When sizing up the state of the industrial real estate market, which has been moving in the right direction for an extended period and spurred on in large due to e-commerce activity, the sector’s future continues to look bright in 2018, according to research issued today by industrial real estate firm CBRE.
Report says Amazon is focusing on building out delivery trial offering
A Bloomberg indicated that Amazon has expanded the Seller Flex service, which Amazon has renamed to FBA Onsite. The report explained that along with changing the name of the offering, Amazon is recruiting more sellers and telling merchants they can keep goods in their own warehouses, as in the past merchants had to send goods…
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An air cargo alliance made in heaven?
The new partnership augurs great things for an already robust air cargo industry
One Disaster A Week: How Biogen Stabilized its Supply Chain…..
In this webcast Daniel Biran, VP-Global Security, Biogen and Joe Carson, Chief Strategy Officer, Resilinc, will speak on how Biogen was able to utilize its Global Security Operations Center and the Resilinc’s supply chain intelligence/tools to streamline cross-departmental communications, identify supply chain vulnerabilities, and enable proactive risk mitigation and crisis management activities in the face…
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BTS reports U.S-NAFTA trade is up annually in November for 13th consecutive month
The United States Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported this week that United States trade with its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners, Canada and Mexico, was up annually in November, the most recent month for which data is available. With a 10.5% annual gain, November represents the 13th consecutive month…
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AAR reports mixed U.S. carload and intermodal volumes for week ending January 20
Carloads fell 7.6% annually to 241,258, and intermodal containers and trailers saw a 1.8% annual gain to 266,981.
SMC3 keynote takes a deep dive into the “Brave New Supply Chain World”
In a wide ranging keynote speech at this week’s SMC3 Jump Start conference in Atlanta, Adrian Gonzalez, head of Adelante SCM, touched upon many things and developments within the supply chain could be be viewed as keys to the future. The theme of the keynote was appropriately titled the “Brave New Supply Chain World, which…
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Air Forwarders Association signs MOU with TIACA to create new alliance
As the outlook for the global air cargo industry continues to brighten, another significant developed this week when the Airforwarders Association (AfA) announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA).