Logistics Technology News

A US appeals court is considering whether vehicle buyers and dealers can pursue lawsuits seeking treble damages from roll-on, roll-off carriers involved in a price-fixing conspiracy.

Third-party logistics provider Transplace is making further inroads into Canada after acquiring Lakeside Logistics.

Japan signed an agreement to expand the area of land it can develop within the Thilawa special economic zone.

Lackluster market conditions hit Allcargo Logistics.

UPS on Friday broke ground on the expansion of its Columbus, Ohio, hub, the latest effort in a global facility expansion and modernization drive necessitated by the e-commerce boom.

Japan Post’s group net loss more than doubled in the first half of the current fiscal year from a year earlier.

CEVA Logistics posted lower earnings and flat revenue in the third quarter, as sliding freight rates offset strong volume growth.

Steady growth in e-commerce activity is driving a surge in the parcel delivery business and strengthening the role of EDI in processing and auditing freight payments, according to shippers and billing companies.

Net profit at Kintetsu World Express crashed even as group revenue surged.

UPS’s acquisition of Marken, a third-party logistics provider specializing in health care, will bolster UPS’s pharmaceutical logistics services.

Deutsche Post DHL on Tuesday reported a record third-quarter result.

Net profit at Nippon Express Co., Japan’s biggest international freight forwarder, surged in the first half of fiscal 2016 despite a revenue decline.

A New Zealand company has launched a relatively small, portable scale designed to enable shippers to weigh a container atop a chassis, saying it will help shippers comply with new global container weight rules.

The benefits of rising e-commerce demand are lifting revenue, profit at multiple units of XPO Logistics, from last-mile to LTL.

Yusen Logistics swung into the red in the first half of fiscal year 2016.

Damco posted another profit in the third quarter.

There is no other way to describe the current global transportation market other than as a “bear market.” Driving home this point is Top 50 Global Transportation Service Providers ranking by SJ Consulting and The Journal of Commerce.

DSV’s operating profit surged 18 percent in the third quarter as ocean, air, and ground freight posted solid growth.

Kuehne + Nagel’s adoption of the freight rate management platform CargoSphere is another sign that the type of technological disruption that has taken place in other sectors of the economy will occur more gradually and less destructively in shipping.

Of the world’s top 50 transportation service providers, only a handful registered revenue growth in 2015.

The value of M&A deals fell 30 percent in the third quarter, but the Port of Melbourne sale saw Asia and Oceania leading the way.

Plunging truckload rates proved a dead weight on profits at C.H. Robinson Worldwide in the third quarter.

Panalpina’s profit stabilized in the first nine months of the year.

DHL has settled on its general rate increase for 2017.

CEVA Logistics has named a veteran chief financial officer to the position effective immediately to replace Arjan Kaaks, who left the company after just more than a year with CEVA.

A system aims to provide a single collection point for information on container status, vessel schedules, and empty-container returns, among other information.

The US delivery company will spend 200 million euros to expand its sorting facility at Charles de Gaulle airport and 1.2 billion euros on a 30-year lease.

The Swiss logistics and forwarding giant expressed confidence in the fourth quarter.

"It is better to file an imperfect claim than no claim at all,” said Andrew Kehagiaras, partner in the Long Beach law firm Roberts & Kehagiaras.

While technology solutions are important to improving supply chains, the digitization of supply chain planning and operations can only go so far.

With global supply chains generating more and more data in the cloud, Appterra will help Descartes better connect customers.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics and its Eukor Car Carriers affiliate have agreed to pay civil penalties to settle US Federal Maritime Commission allegations of wrongdoing.

A greater customer emphasis on control over deliveries means e-commerce companies and shippers will increasingly pressure their transportation partners to provide the visibility and flexibility needed to enable that control.

Shippers must be keenly aware of the financial health of their container lines, and the alliance partners of those lines, if they want avoid the type of widespread disruption experienced during the collapse of Hanjin Shipping.

XPO Logistics will spend $425 million this year on technology to get the most out of diverse international operations and optimize customer supply chains, says CEO Bradley S. Jacobs.

Among the services that MIT Safetrans provides are the commissioning of MRI machines and ATMs.

An Israeli company plans to unveil a way to send a bill of lading digitally.

Mumbai-based Allcargo Group is rapidly expanding its logistics capacity to meet expected growth from India’s ongoing infrastructure development and reform initiatives.

Rapid advances in technology, coupled with e-commerce expansion, will magnify pressure on shippers and logistics companies to deliver for customers.

Largest US logistics provider to scrutinize vessel-sharing agreements, urges more "resilient" supply chain strategies.