Logistics/Supply Chains

Higher interest rates and a cautious macro outlook have curbed logistics warehouse growth but have hardly stomped it out.

Deutsche Post DHL posted strong gains at its Express, freight forwarding and supply chain units.

Pritzker Private Capital is buying family-owned Kenco, ending its 72 years as an independent company.

Cleo Integration Cloud is a blend of both internal and external integration systems types, providing users with a self-service platform to connect their internal ecosystem of back office and cloud-based enterprise processes with trading partners through its any-to-any transformation engine.

Driver turnover is expensive, and trucking operators cannot afford to keep turning over virtually their entire workforces on a yearly basis if they hope to bolster their bottom lines.

Without a clear idea of what technological breakthroughs in alternative fuels may be coming, ocean carriers are left searching for a path forward as they look to build vessels.

“When we first got started here, probably 75% of my day was answering emails and phone calls asking for updates. Now that all that is being sent directly from the drivers to the customers, it gives me a lot more time to handle planning and other issues that come up.”

Echo looks to push aggressively into the managed logistics solutions category.

Prologis has named Dan Letter president to run global operations, and Gene Reilly will take on a new role as senior adviser to CEO Hamad Moghadam.

Watco and Telegraph are collaborating in an effort to provide rail shippers with more information on where their railcars might be located on Watco’s network.

Fewer shippers think their 3PL relationships are successful, according to the annual Third-Party Logistics Study.

StratusGrid’s expertise and ability to provide supply chain and logistics companies with software solutions on the world’s most widely adopted cloud platform is underscored with Amazon Web Services recognition.

The great chassis squeeze in intermodal transport is not done yet, according to a panel of executives at the annual IANA meeting.

China’s share of all trade growth will drop to 13% over the next five years from 26% over the past six years, a new report from DHL and NYU’s Stern School of Business predicts.

Gretchen McCarthy will run all of Target’s global transport, logistics and supply chain management businesses.

Third-party logistics provider Atlas Logistics has acquired Progressive Transportation Inc., a provider of over-the-road pad-wrap transportation.

Mothership’s same-day freight marketplace injects modern software into an industry still lagging behind in technology adoption, opening doors for shippers that will directly allow them to break into new markets and build consistent and dependable service with low overall damage rates.

Each new Ditat customer is paired with one support team member who stays with the account from the beginning and beyond.

He regards the technology as not just the next generation of business process tools after the TMS, but something more akin to the revolutionary jump from traditional phones to smartphones.

Walmart pulls back on its order activity to align its inventory levels with projected demand.