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Wen-Parker Board of Directors New Member- Anthony Romano

Wen-Parker Logistics (WPL) announced that Anthony Romano has joined the WPL Board of Directors as an Independent Director. “The Board of Directors is excited to welcome Anthony to Wen-Parker. His experience in retail management and supply chain speak directly to our core business capabilities while his financial, audit and Board experience will help us develop our strategy and governance as we continue to grow and expand,” states John Singleton, Chief Executive ... [+]

1GSA adds Vietnam to growing network

1GSA – the recently-launched independent GSA network – has appointed Transviet Promotion Limited as its exclusive member for Vietnam. Transviet Promotion was launched in 1996, and is Vietnam’s leading GSA organization, active in both cargo and passenger operations. It has five bases in Ho Chi Minh, ... [+]

3,000 Tonnes of Beaujolais Nouveau 2017 for Asia

The annual Beaujolais run is well under way in France with Worldwide Flight Services’ (WFS) team of cargo handling specialists helping airline customers ensure the timely delivery of over 3,000 tonnes of this year’s new young wine to customers in Asia. WFS has played a key ... [+]

BHP Proposes New Potash Export Facility at Port of Grays Harbor

BHP is proposing a new potash export facility at the Port of Grays Harbor’s Terminal 3 in west Hoquiam. Potash, or potassium chloride (KCI), is a naturally occurring mineral and is a key ingredient in agricultural and garden fertilizers. The world’s largest known reserves of potash ... [+]

CaroTrans-Craft Service Portfolio Expands with Addition of Peru and Ecuador

CaroTrans announces the expansion of its cooperation with the Craft Group, a major multinational leader in NVOCC services in South America, with the addition of Peru and Ecuador to the alliance's LCL/FCL service portfolio.  The longstanding CaroTrans-Craft alliance has served the U.S. - East Coast ... [+]

E-commerce drives XPO Logistics to record quarterly profit

Reuters reports that XPO Logistics Inc posted a record quarterly profit on November 1, fueled by e-commerce demand for its contract logistics and "last mile" deliveries to households, along with shipments of consumer goods and a strong truck brokerage market. The third-largest publicly traded U.S. logistics ... [+]

Honda nearly triples its Brunswick cargo

American Honda Motor Company nearly tripled its business through the Port of Brunswick in Fiscal Year 2017, adding 34,700 vehicles over the previous year. "We'd like to thank Honda and International Auto Processors for their part in helping GPA move more than 600,000 vehicles through the ... [+]

MIA Named ‘Best Freighter Hub’

Miami International Airport (MIA) recently was named “Best Freighter Hub” in the world at September’s Freighters World Conference Awards ceremony, in recognition of its excellence in the global air cargo sector over the past year. Judged by a panel of industry experts, MIA was chosen ... [+]

Norwegian Automates Electronic Air Cargo Communication with Descartes

Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that low-cost airline Norwegian is using Descartes’ cloud-based Global Air Messaging Gateway solution to help standardize and automate electronic air cargo communication with its customer base of freight forwarders and other trading ... [+]

San Pedro Bay Ports Approve Bold New Clean Air Strategies

The governing boards of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have unanimously approved the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update, ushering in a new era of aggressive clean air strategies for moving cargo through the nation’s busiest container port complex. The document ... [+]

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