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Year-over-year, spot market loads were up 16 percent for August compared with August 2012. National average rates held steady for the week of August 25-31 as rates rose in a handful of key markets due to increased demand for all trailer types, reports DAT Trendlines. For the month of August, vans added 1 cent due… Read more »

In the latest State of Logistics Report, it is reported that the trucking industry is currently short by about 30,000 drivers. And logistics professionals are frequently warned by trucking trade associations and big carriers about how CSA regulations have reduced the driver pool, how Hours of Service will reduce driver productivity by perhaps 8 percent on average. We… Read more »

UTi Worldwide Inc., a global supply chain services and solutions company, has won WackerChemie AG’s “Best Logistics Partner” award. Representatives of the global chemical company presented the award to UTi in Munich recently. The award, for services provided in 2012, was based on Wacker’s annual review of its 10 logistics partners in the areas of… Read more »

Henningsen Cold Storage is pleased to announce two important leadership changes. Christopher Henningsen will assume responsibilities of the newly created position; Vice President, Information Services. Chris previously held the position of Vice President, Warehouse Operations, where he was responsible for daily warehouse operations and management teams of each of the company’s facilities. In his previous… Read more »

Here at Commercial Warehousing Inc. we take pride in being a provider of a variety of supply chain services to include multi-temperature warehousing services as well as transportation and packaging services to name a few. As a provider of multi-temperature warehousing services, we need to have a technology solution robust enough to handle the varying… Read more »

Sunland Logistics Solutions, Inc. – our Greenville, SC client – is pleased to announce its 1312 Old Stage Road facility in Simpsonville, SC has been approved to be a Foreign Trade Zone site. Foreign Trade Zones were created to encourage US participation in national trade and to defer payments of duties until goods are entered… Read more »

Dr. J. Paul Dittmann, executive director of The Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee, has been named to the Kenco Board of Directors. Kenco is a leading provider of distribution and fulfillment, transportation services and intelligent information technology. Jane Kennedy Greene, Kenco Chairwoman & CEO, said Dittmann will expand the diversity of… Read more »

James Denmark has been named General Manager of the company’s Portland, OR warehouse operations. In his new role, he will direct the day to day operations Henningsen’s two Portland facilities, com­prising over nine million total cubic feet, and over 30,000 pallet positions. Denmark joins Henningsen after serving 16 years with Americold, where he was, most… Read more »

NORPAC Foods, Inc. has reached an agreement with Henningsen Cold Storage Co. to construct a 260,000 sq. ft. frozen food storage and distribution facility adjacent to NORPAC’s Salem, OR packaging facility. Additionally, NORPAC is relo­cating its corporate headquar­ters to Salem. The development projects are slated for comple­tion by late spring 2014.  

North American intermodal volume for the week ending July 20 grew year-over-year for the third consecutive week, totaling 320,488 trailers and containers, the highest weekly volume since Sept. 29, 2012, according to the Association of American Railroads. Combined North American carload volume, for the three North American Free Trade Agreement partners, dropped 2.7 percent from the same week… Read more »