Logistics Technology News

Online retail isn’t a sector readily associated with freight forwarders.

MNX will expand its Singapore operation, which will be bolstered to take on a regional hub role.

Global freight forwarder and logistics provider Damco plans to move its headquarters

Trimble, a $1.64 billion mobile technology company, acquired trucking software firm TMW Systems for $335 million in cash, the companies said Monday.

Yusen Logistics will begin operating in Dhaka and Chittagong, Bangladesh, on Oct. 15 to serve apparel and other retail shippers.

Forwarder and logistics provider Expeditors International of Washington reported a 12 percent decline in second quarter net profit as air freight revenue fell 14.8 percent.

Major Japanese international freight forwarder Kintetsu World Express said its group net profit edged down 0.3 percent year-over-year to $30.42 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2012, which start

DSV’s core profit increased 5.9 percent in the second quarter from a year ago as the Danish logistics and freight forwarding group cut costs to maintain margins in its global air, sea and trucki

Nippon Express Co., Japan’s largest international freight forwarder, said on Friday that it has set up a representative office in Myanmar, formerly called Burma, with an eye on upgrading the new

Global port giant PSA and the Port Authority of Singapore have allocated some $15.8 million to develop a new generation of automated port vehicles to be deployed at PSA’s transhipment facilities

Kuehne + Nagel is acquiring the business contracts of Canada’s Perishables International Transportation in the latest expansion of Swiss logistics giant’s global fresh and frozen foods net

Once regarded as a necessary evil and a drag on the bottom line, reverse logistics has emerged as a critical capability for third-party logistics providers trying to capture a share of booming seconda

Indian regulatory authorities cleared a joint venture between Japanese forwarder Kintetsu World Express and domestic logistics group Gati Ltd.

Virginia International Terminals implemented new terminal-operating software at the Port of Richmond.

Manufacturer 3M agreed to acquire Federal Signal Technologies Group, a unit of Federal Signal focused on electronic tolling technologies, for $110 million.

Forwarder Phoenix International could be the latest company to get swept into a recent whirl of merger and acquisition activity, according to a report.

Manitoulin Global Forwarding, an international freight forwarder is expanding in western Canada, acquiring Can-Tran International of Leduc, Alberta.

Although production of hard-disk drives is rapidly recovering from the catastro

There’s more behind the renewed surge of interest in alternative fuels such as compressed natural gas than the comparatively high price of diesel.

Panalpina has started flying the first of two new Boeing 747-8 freighters with a maiden cargo flight from Hong Kong to Luxembourg.

Descartes Systems Group acquired Infodis, a Netherlands-based provider of transportation-management software, in an all-cash transaction for $3.7 million.

Logistics software supplier Descartes increased net profit 18 percent to $2.6 million as revenue increased 10 percent to $29.9 million in the

Want to know what the next generation of technology used by transportation operators will look like? Glance at the nearest Android smartphone or Apple iPad.

Converging consumer and business technologies are changing the way motor carriers connect with truck drivers and customers at an increasingly rapid pace.

Worried about driver and capacity shortages? Don’t forget the “spectrum crunch.”

Major Japanese international freight forwarder Kintetsu World Express, Inc.

DSV, the Danish logistics and freight forwarding group, reported first quarter revenue stalled at $1.93 billion as lower sea and air traffic, along with freight rates, offset a stronger performance at

Net income at Forward Air in the first quarter soared 30.6 percent to nearly $10.3 million, as the air freight trucker saw an increase in demand for its core services along with its logistics manageme

Kuehne+Nagel’s first quarter profit slumped to $73.5 million from $167.5 million a year ago as the

If Southern California is to meet federal pollution reduction standards established for 2030, it appears inevitable that the goods movement industry will have to rely on zero-emission and near zero-em

Expeditors International of Washington “vigorously denied” price-setting allegations that resulted in a $5.5 million fine from the European Commission.

Nippon Express Co., Japan’s largest international freight forwarder, said that it has acquired a 100 percent stake in U.S. logistics company Associated Global Systems, Inc.

European antitrust officials on Wednesday fined 13 of the world’s largest logistics companies, including Kuehne + Nagel, Panalpina and UPS, a total of $225 million for fixing international air c

Transactional freight payment data is the mother lode of logistics information, the bedrock on which strategic benchmarking and transportation modeling rests.

U.S manufacturing technology orders in January rose 8.4 percent year-over-year, highlighting “manufacturers’ increasing confidence in future growth,” according to the Association for

Intra-Asia container line MCC Transport has introduced a new mobile Web site and a smart phone application to enable customers to better track shipments and sailing schedules.

Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL, coming off a year in which net profit fell by half because of a onetime charge related to the sale of its Postbank banking unit, forecast higher revenue and profit f

Retail supply chains are no longer just multimodal, they’re multi-channel, and that’s adding layers of fulfillment complexity for shippers, a retail industry study finds.

Panalpina swung to a profit of $139.7 million in 2011 from a 2010 loss of $28.6 million as the Swiss logistics and forwarding giant enjoyed organic growth across all regions and product divisions.

Non-asset freight transportation interests in the U.S. and China formed an alliance last week to promote trans-Pacific cooperation in third-party logistics.