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Nippon Express Europe establishes Two New Subsidiaries in Morocco

Nippon Express Europe GmbH has spun off two of its existing business locations in Morocco – the Morocco Branch and the Tanger Med Logistics Center – into subsidiary companies, newly establishing Nippon Express Morocco SARLAU this past July and Nippon Express Morocco Free Zone SARLAU in August. An opening ceremony was held in Tangier, northern Morocco, on September 26 to commemorate the founding of these two companies. The Nippon Express Group's ... [+]

Descartes’ GSC Report Shows 12.4% Decline in Sept. Import Volumes

Descartes released its October Global Shipping Crisis Report, which analyzed the main economic and logistics factors pushing the global shipping crisis and the strategies to address it for the month of September. The report's data, collected by Descartes Datamyne – provider of the world's largest searchable ... [+]

Hazardous Goods Logistics Market to Reach $382.9 Billion by 2031

Allied Market Research reports that the global hazardous goods logistics market generated $200 billion in 2021, and is projected to reach $382.9 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 7% from 2022 to 2031. The report offers a detailed analysis of the top winning ... [+]

New Distribution Facility for RoadOne

Industrial Realty Group, LLC announced an agreement has been executed to develop a state-of-the-art distribution facility in Suffolk near the Port of Virginia. Upon completion, the project will be fully leased to RoadOne IntermodaLogistics, a single source intermodal, distribution, and logistics services company with a ... [+]

Lowe’s to Establish Coastal Holding Facility in Suffolk, VA

Lowe's Companies, Inc. will establish a coastal holding facility in the City of Suffolk, which will create 100 new jobs. The company's first distribution operation located in the Virginia Port Logistics Park will receive imported goods through The Port of Virginia to supply regional distribution ... [+]

Spare parts from the cloud

DB Schenker has become a sustainable spare parts logistics pioneer. "We are the first global logistics provider to offer spare parts delivery via 3D printing. Products from our virtual warehouse are available in a very short time and are manufactured exactly where they are needed," ... [+]

Egypt Taps Agility to Modernize Suez Canal Economic Zone Customs

The Suez Canal Economic Zone announced that it has signed a contract with Agility, a supply chain services, infrastructure and investment leader, to develop and operate a customs and logistics center in the Suez Canal Economic Zone.The agreement with Agility was signed during the Egyptian-Kuwaiti ... [+]

Smart Robotics launches Smart Parcel Picker

Smart Robotics, a global leader in pick and place automation as a service for warehouses and logistics processes, is excited to announce the launch of their newly engineered Smart Parcel Picker. This picking robot is designed to depalletize and unload an array of containers with ... [+]

DHL Global Forwarding invests EUR 7m in new head office in Johannesburg

DHL Global Forwarding has inaugurated a new transhipment hub and head office in Johannesburg, South Africa. The sustainable, primarily solar-powered complex was officially opened on September 22.Located in the Sky Park Industrial Estate it provides easy access to “OR Tambo International Airport.”The facility’s temperature-controlled chambers ... [+]

NFTC Statement on Biden Administration Decision

National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) President Jake Colvin issued a statement following reports that the Biden Administration has declined to impose tariffs on rare earth magnets: "The Biden Administration made the right call today by declining to impose new tariffs on neodymium magnets. Tariffs would have ... [+]

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