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NFI taps WeatherOptics

NFI, a leading third-party logistics provider, announced a new partnership with WeatherOptics, a leading weather intelligence platform, to provide improved visibility to customers ahead of disruptive weather events.WeatherOptics boils weather impact down to a simple risk score or delay time that allows businesses to easily understand how upcoming weather will affect their key operations. The company works with some of the largest shippers and supply chain software companies in North ... [+]

Odyssey Logistics Expands with New Brooklyn, Ohio Facility

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. announced that Odyssey Specialized Logistics LLC has opened a new metal logistics facility in Brooklyn, Ohio dedicated to roll and hold warehousing and area transportation. The Brooklyn location joins roll and hold facilities in California, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas ... [+]

AAFA Welcomes Passage of America Competes Act

The American Apparel & Footwear Association welcomed the passage of the America COMPETES Act on February 4, emphasizing the positive impact it will have on protecting consumers from dangerous counterfeits, addressing the worsening shipping crisis, and providing critical tariff savings at a time of rising ... [+]

POLB Creating Nation’s Largest Electric Truck Charging Network

The Port of Long Beach has issued an information request to assist in creating one of the largest U.S. networks of publicly accessible electric-charging stations for the heavy duty, class 8 drayage trucks that serve the port complex.Transitioning the drayage truck fleet serving the San ... [+]

Alabama Port Authority to build an ICTF at Montgomery, AL

The Alabama Port Authority board of directors have approved a $2.042 million purchase of 272 acres in Montgomery, Ala., to construct an inland container intermodal transfer (ICTF) facility. The project will extend intermodal rail service from the Port Authority’s container intermodal terminal at the Port ... [+]

AAL Completes US Petroleum Refinery Project

Project heavy lift specialist AAL Shipping (AAL) has delivered 456-metric-tonne industrial tower components to the US West Coast. The cargo was loaded in South Korea onboard the 31,000-deadweight heavy lift AAL Pusan and transported across the Pacific to the Port of Everett in Washington on ... [+]

Canaveral Port Partners with Volusia County

The Canaveral Port Authority (CPA) and Volusia County's Division of Economic Development have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that establishes a working relationship promoting each other's geographical and business advantages. The agreement aims to attract more global business by bringing more Florida-bound cargo to ... [+]

FedEx and Microsoft announce e-commerce collaboration

FedEx Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced ton January 24 the next solution as part of their multiyear collaboration to transform commerce, supply chains and logistics. FedEx and Microsoft will bring together FedEx network intelligence with capabilities from Microsoft Dynamics 365 to introduce a cross-platform “logistics ... [+]

ATA Truck Tonnage Index Increased 1% in December

American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 1% in December after rising 0.5% in November. In December, the index equaled 114.7 (2015=100) compared with 113.5 in November.“December’s gain was the fifth straight totaling 4.4%,” said ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello. ... [+]

SEKO ecommerce launch connects primary global supply chains to ecommerce

SEKO Logistics is leveraging the advantages of their early entry into the global ecommerce market with the launch of a new SEKO Ecommerce business unit to grow their international cross border shipping, global fulfillment, heavyweight last mile, and returns and recommerce solutions into a multibillion ... [+]

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