Supply chain

U.S. Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, D-N.J., today reintroduced legislation designed to keep bigger, heavier trucks off of all highways.

Pep Boys, the automotive aftermarket service and retail chain, has selected National Retail Systems to provide an import container transload solution at the Port of Savannah, Ga.

Kerry Logistics has opened Godiva’s Travel Retail Asia Packing Centre at a temperature-controlled logistics facility in Hong Kong.

E-commerce continued to fuel the U.S. industrial markets’ positive momentum in the first quarter of 2013, according to statistics released by Cushman & Wakefield.

Panalpina rebounded to profit in the first quarter from a year earlier loss as record ocean container traffic more than outweighed lower air freight volumes.

UPS has added winglets to its Boeing 767 fleet in order to save fuel and reduce emissions.

Suttons International has appointed Graeme Rooney as managing director of its international division.

John V. Keenan, former chief operating officer at Horizon Lines, has been advised by the Justice Department that he has been cleared of antitrust violations in the Jones Act domestic shipping market.

Wherever CEVA Logistics heads from here, there is little doubt the world’s fifth-largest third-party logistics company is in for a significant transformation. In many ways, that’s already under way, with a new strategic mission and recapitalization plan forming the basis of an uncertain future.

Dachser Far East recorded strong turnover of US$283 million in its 2012 financial year, up 9.7 percent from US$258 million a year earlier.

CEVA Logistics reported a loss of €681 million (about US$892.6 million) in 2012, growing from a loss of $283.1 million in 2011.

DSV Road, the trucking division of DSV, has introduced DSV Daily Pallet, a new service offering daily pickup and departure with delivery of palletized groupage shipments to and from anywhere in Europe.

The Logwin Group today reported a profit of €4.5 million (about US$6.0 million) for the first quarter of 2013, improving from $5.8 million in the first quarter of 2012.

President Barack Obama today said he will nominate Michael Froman to serve as U.S. Trade Representative.

Major Japanese international freight forwarder Yusen Logistics said its group net profit plunged 55.7 percent in fiscal 2012, which ended on March 31, from a year earlier to 1.119 billion yen ($11.42 million) despite sound revenue growth.

DSV’s profit fell and its revenue stalled in the first quarter on declining cargo volumes and increased competition, but the Danish logistics and freight forwarding group said it is still looking for acquisitions to spur growth.

CargoSphere, the cloud-based rate management system, launched a new freight-rate quoting service that logistics providers can use to keep rate quotes up to date.

CEVA Logistics has won support from bondholders for a debt-for-equity swap.

Sustained nationwide growth in the construction and absorption of warehouse space indicates that the recovery in the industrial real estate market is here to stay.

D.J. Powers has opened a new branch office in Norfolk, Va., in line with its expansion strategy.

Logistics provider Kenco named Todd A. Johnson to the position of senior vice president of operations with Kenco Logistic Services.

UPS is experiencing “significant” growth in its expedited less-than-containerload service from four northern European ports to delivery destinations in the U.S.

Tactical Logistics Solutions has leased 192,000 square feet of industrial space in Ontario from landlord Riverside Bluffs Realty, an affiliate of Sares Regis-J.P. Morgan.

Agility’s first quarter profit soared 46 percent as the Kuwait-based logistics and infrastructure company overcame a sluggish global economy to expand its customer base in emerging markets.

Saddle Creek Logistics Services has been selected to handle nationwide supply chain management for TalkingRain Beverage Company, a Seattle-based producer of spring and sparkling waters.

Barcoding Inc. has purchased Lake Zurich, Ill.-based Miles Technologies.

The U.K. said it expects to hire banks to advise on an initial public offering for Royal Mail Group, the 363-year-old state postal company, by the end of May.

DGX-Dependable Global Express is expanding its service to Ecuador.

OIA Global has opened an office in Tokyo, in line with the logistics company’s ongoing expansion in the Asia-Pacific region.

Kuehne + Nagel is adding 30,000 square meters (about 322,917 square feet) to its premises in Geel, Belgium, increasing the capacity of the site to a total 87,293 square feet.

Penske Logistics has been awarded the contract to be the operational manager of the BMW of North America parts distribution center in Nazareth, Pa.

Lineage Logistics has begun operation of two cold storage facilities in Arlington and Murfreesboro, Tenn., on behalf of Rich Products.

Legislation to classify port drayage owner-operators as company employees has stalled in the New Jersey General Assembly.

Universal Truckload Services reported net income in the first quarter of 2013 totaled $11.4 million, compared with net income of $14.4 million and pro forma net income of $10.4 million in the same quarter of 2012.

Anthony Foxx, mayor of Charlotte, N.C., has been selected by President Barack Obama to be the new head of the Department of Transportation, NBC News reports.

TNT Express’s first quarter revenue shrank 4.5 percent to 1.67 billion euros ($2.2 billion) as the Dutch parcel delivery company scaled back international operations to focus on its core European market in the wake of a collapsed takeover bid by its larger U.S. rival United Parcel Service.

VTG Aktiengesellschaft, a wagon hire and rail logistics company in Europe, and Kuehne + Nagel, a logistics business, have signed a letter of intent for a merger of parts of their rail logistics activities...

U.S. Congress has passed a bill that will halt air traffic controllers from being furloughed as part of budget cuts related to sequestration.

UPS will purchase CEMELOG, a Hungary-based pharmaceutical logistics company, as part of its growth and investment strategy.