Logistics Technology News

DB Schenker Logistics has leased additional capacity in a new multi-customer warehouse in Ukraine in order to expand its service portfolio in the country.

FedEx Express has launched FedEx Priority Overnight in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Damco has announced several appointments to expand the third-party logistics provider’s presence in the region...

Menlo Worldwide Logistics has established a 16,000 square meter (about 172,223 square foot) distribution center in Genk, Belgium.

Valley Cartage will open its Supply Chain Logistics Service Center in Lake Elmo, Minn., in May.

Transnet SOC, South Africa’s state-owned ports and rail operator, and China Development Bank have signed an agreement to jointly explore and identify opportunities for the Chinese state-owned bank to have a role in Transnet’s infrastructure upgrade programs.

UPS has expanded its Preferred Less-Than-Container Load expedited ocean freight service to include Western Europe.

FedEx Express has expanded its alternative-energy vehicle fleet with the introduction of 10 new all-electric commercial vehicles for use in Hong Kong.

DB Schenker Logistics will launch a new service for French wine producers at the ProWein trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, from March 24-26.

UPS has appointed Cindy Miller as president of its European business and Derek Woodward as president of the emerging markets division, effective April 30.

Performance Team has hired Jim Townsend as its chief information officer.

Schenker AG’s supervisory board has appointed Heiner Murmann to its management board, effective May 1. He will be responsible for the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary’s air and ocean freight.

Toll Global Forwarding has named Paul Chinery as director of air freight for its U.K. operations.

CEVA Logistics has launched a new China to Europe railway service.

FedEx today reported net income in the third quarter of fiscal year 2013, ending Feb. 28, 2013, was $361 million, dropping 31 percent from $521 million in the same quarter in the previous year.

Echo Global Logistics has acquired Open Mile, a Boston-based non-asset transportation service provider that combines high tech automation with freight management services.

UPS said today that it has become the first global express delivery company to be wholly owned in Vietnam, following its acquisition of the 49 percent interest of VN Post Express in the two companies’ express delivery joint venture.

Geodis Wilson has appointed Ivy Boyer as its chief marketing officer.

Lars Kloch has taken on a larger role at SBS Worldwide.

Norbert Dentressangle reported that its freight forwarding division in Chile, which launched 18 months ago, handled 1,500 metric tons of blueberries and cherries from Chile to the U.S., China and Europe in December 2012...

Henkel Consumer Goods has selected Saddle Creek Logistics Services as its lead logistics provider.

DB Schenker Logistics has opened a new cross-docking terminal in Pruszcz Gdański in the greater Gdańsk area in Poland.

Globe Express Services has appointed Oliver Huber as president of its North America business, effective March 18.

Truckload pricing in February increased 4.3 percent from the same month in 2012, but declined 0.1 percent from January, according to the Cass Truckload Linehaul Index.

Regional parcel carrier OnTrac has added Idaho to its service area.

MIQ Logistics has opened a new facility in Laredo, Texas.

Eagle Distributing of Shreveport has signed a lease agreement with Ryder System for 23 compressed natural gas tractors.

Port Logistics Group and Tagsys RFID have partnered to provide radio-frequency identification solutions for Port Logistics Group customers at their U.S. gateway facilities.

Graybar has opened two new branches in Carrizo Springs, Texas, and Dickinson, N.D., and a new sales office in Rockford, Ill.

Dukal has chosen Georgia’s Port of Savannah as its major port of entry and established a new distribution center in the city’s foreign trade zone.

Rinchem Co. has opened a 65,000-square-foot chemical logistics facility in Hollister, Calif.

Quintiq has appointed Kim Rhodes as its vice president, general counsel and secretary.

3Gtms, a developer of transportation software products, has merged with Transite Technology, a developer of transportation management systems.

Panalpina plunged to a loss of 70.2 million Swiss francs ($74.4 million) in 2012 from a 127.4 million franc ($135 million) profit in 2011.

Norbert Dentressangle’s freight forwarding division has established a new office in Vietnam.

DB Schenker Logistics, together with air freight container provider Envirotainer, has expanded its range of temperature-controlled air freight services.

Kuehne + Nagel International’s board of directors has announced that Reinhard Lange, CEO of the Kuehne + Nagel Group since 2009, will step down because of health reasons, effective May 7, 2013.