Freight Shipping Industry News

Logistics

• C.H. Robinson Announces Launch of C.H. Robinson Labs January 23, 2020
  C.H. Robinson has formally introduced C.H. Robinson Labs, an innovation incubator where new ideas in logistics and supply chain are created, tested and scaled to drive solutions for C.H. Robinson’s customers and carriers.
• Pilot Expands Warehouse Presence in Boston and El Paso January 20, 2020
  Pilot Freight Services, a worldwide provider of transportation and logistics services, recently announced new warehouse locations in Texas and Boston, with an increase in its Foreign Trade Zone capacity in El Paso.
• GlobalTranz Acquires Cerasis January 16, 2020
  GlobalTranz Enterprises, a technology and third-party logistics solutions company and TMS provider, recently announced that it has acquired Cerasis, a technology driven provider of managed transportation and third-party multimodal logistics services.
• Walmart Warehouse Robots Are Latest Tool in Battle With Amazon January 10, 2020
  Hidden behind a store in southern New Hampshire, Walmart’s latest weapon in its food fight against Amazon.com is now fully operational.
• The Missing Piece of the Delivery-Planning Puzzle: People January 8, 2020
  Most route-optimization technology focuses exclusively on routing the truck, and ignores the person behind the wheel.
• Is Your DC Hiding Something? January 6, 2020
  Technology may be helping companies work faster and with fewer resources, but the modern-day distribution center is still some way from achieving optimum productivity.
• 3PLs Help Shippers Create a Dynamic Supply Chain January 6, 2020
  Maintaining a dynamic supply chain in the 21st century involves an approach similar to crowd-sourcing, or what’s known as the “Uber Effect."
• Freight and Shipper Optimization Guide to Carrier Rate Shopping January 2, 2020
  The freight industry is trying new business models and tools to keep up with consumer demand for same-day and one-hour delivery times. This guide to carrier rate shopping can help shippers navigate these changes.
• Online Retailers Ready to Tap Rising Demand for Booze Delivery December 30, 2019
  The opportunity is clear: The volume of liquor sold online in the U.S. should more than quadruple by 2024, reaching an estimated value of $13.4 billion.
• Misery Looms Over Top Coal Shippers as China to Buy Less in 2020 December 27, 2019
  China isn’t cutting back on consumption of the most-polluting fossil fuel just yet, but it is set to reduce imports.