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Business, Logistics

DHL Buys Midwest LTL Carrier Standard Forwarding

DHL has acquired Standard Forwarding, a less-than-truckload carrier based in East Moline, Ill., the (Davenport, Iowa) Quad-City Times reported. Terms were not released.

June 6, 2011
Business, Logistics

New Trailer Orders Surge 71% in April

Commercial trailer producers received 19,579 new orders in April, a 71% jump from the same month last year, and the manufacturers’ backlog rose above 100,000 for the first time in the current recovery, ACT Research Co. said.

June 6, 2011
Business, Logistics

GSC Logistics Buys Seattle’s Best Way Trucking

Third-party logistics provider GSC Logistics said it has purchased Seattle-based Best Way Trucking, effective June 1. Terms were not disclosed.

June 3, 2011
Business, Logistics

Global Shipper Group to Incorporate

The first formal association of international shippers, including the National Industrial Transportation League, has formed under the banner of the Global Shippers Forum to raise the profile of freight groups in an increasingly global marketplace.

Rip Watson | Special to Transport Topics
June 3, 2011
Perspective, Business, Logistics

Opinion: Think Inside the Box

Because transportation costs outweigh warehousing costs several times over and continue to rise, most companies think outside that big box called the warehouse when the topic is logistics and concentrate instead on how things get to their destination.

June 3, 2011
Business, Logistics

UTi Worldwide’s Fiscal 1Q Income Slips

Air and freight forwarder UTi Worldwide said Thursday its fiscal first-quarter profit fell to $8.7 million, or 8 cents per share, from $10.1 million, or 10 cents, a year ago.

June 2, 2011
Business, Logistics

NFI Buys Gilbert’s West Coast Operations

NFI said Tuesday it has acquired the West Coast operations of Gilbert Co., a subsidiary of A.P. Moller-Maersk Group.

May 31, 2011
Business, Logistics

Intermodal Traffic Rises 8.7% for Week

Intermodal traffic rose 8.7% last week from a year ago, the Association of American Railroads reported.

May 27, 2011
Business, Logistics

Logistics Firm Kane Is Able Names Westermann President

Third-party logistics provider Kane Is Able said Thursday it has named 30-year logistics industry veteran Pete Westermann its president and chief operations officer.

May 26, 2011
Perspective, Business, Logistics

Opinion: Rethink the ‘Just-in-Time’ Delivery System

The successful application of just-in-time delivery requires every link of the supply chain to remain unbroken. Trucks and their cargo must arrive within a very precise, predetermined period of time — often only hours before the cargo is needed on the assembly line.

May 26, 2011
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