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Worldwide Express Names PITT OHIO Northeast LTL Carrier of the Year

PITT OHIO was selected for the first time as the 2016 Northeast LTL Carrier of the Year by Worldwide Express, a Dallas-based global package and freight-shipping firm.  Awards were presented in late April during the Worldwide Express 20th Annual National Sales Conference in San Diego. This year’s award winners were selected through a survey of Worldwide Express sales and operations teams, which measured those carriers who best exemplified the Worldwide Express ... [+]

Africa’s JUMIA.com marketplace signs up for SEKO expertise in fulfilment and cross-border shipping

Online marketplace JUMIA.com is partnering with SEKO Logistics to accelerate the growth of its business, which already trades with over 500,000 local companies in Africa every day. JUMIA.com - part of the JUMIA Group serving 23 African countries - was founded in 2012 and is already ... [+]

McCain Foods Announces Expansion in Burley, Idaho

McCain Foods USA, a division of Canadian-based McCain Foods Limited, the world’s largest producer of French fries, announced their plans to expand production capacity in Burley, Idaho, for frozen French fries, adding significant capacity to their current production. McCain plans to invest over $200 million to expand ... [+]

British cargo airline, CargoLogicAir, takes delivery of third Boeing 747 freighter

CargoLogicAir (CLA), the British cargo airline, has taken delivery of its third Boeing 747 freighter in less than 18 months. The London Stansted Airport-based airline, which received its UK Air Operator Certificate (AOC) from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) at the start of 2016, now operates ... [+]

DB Schenker Relocates Americas Headquarters to Miami-Dade, Florida

DB Schenker currently operates a large warehouse in West Miami-Dade County. The new Americas Headquarters will be located in a new building currently under construction in Central Miami-Dade County near the airport. The company will be moving to its permanent location in October 2017. “This move ... [+]

Leading restaurant supplier begins moving all US imports through JAXPORT

Central Florida-based dining products supplier Blackwood Industries, Inc. is now shipping all of the company’s imported products from Asia through JAXPORT. Blackwood supplies flatware, furniture, apparel and other items to businesses around the world, including popular U.S. restaurant chains, retailers and theme parks. Blackwood will use a ... [+]

Paragon Software Systems Transforms Transport Planning for Frozen Food Express

Paragon Software Systems  announces that Frozen Food Express (FFE) has deployed Paragon’s route optimization software to maximize transport efficiencies within their line haul operation. FFE, one of the largest temperature-controlled LTL operators in the US, is using Paragon’s Integrated Fleets and Street Level Mapping solutions ... [+]

Fast Train Connection from Northern Europe to Asia Gathers Interest

The new connection between Finland, Russia, Kazakhstan and China was presented at the RailGate Finland –China Express Seminar in Helsinki on March 2017. The potential operators from Kazakhstan introduced themselves in the seminar. “Fast connections are of great importance to export and import companies. This route ... [+]

DHL expands global Cargo Insurance service

DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group has expanded its ‘all-risks’ Cargo Insurance service to Ghana, Kenya, Morocco and Mozambique. While DHL handles every shipment with utmost care, accidents such as natural disasters can’t be avoided. Therefore, DHL ... [+]

Port of Los Angeles Reports Overall Gains of 10% in 1st Quarter

March cargo volumes jumped 29% at the Port of Los Angeles compared to the previous year.  The robust numbers came through a combination of strong export volumes (up 20%), a post Lunar New Year surge of cargo from Asia, and U.S. retailers shipping merchandise ahead ... [+]

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