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Ports America Purchasing 30-Percent Stake in ITS

Ports America is purchasing a 30-percent stake in International Transportation Service Inc., a terminal operating division of Japan's Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. ("K" Line) in Long Beach, Calif.

Advantech Releases New Mobile Computing Platform for Truckers

Advantech-DLoG, a vendor of mobile computing platforms, has released a new mobile data terminal, Plus Trek-303DH.

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Landair Unveils Guaranteed Value Acceleration Service

Third-party logistics provider Landair has developed Guaranteed Value Acceleration (GVA), a new service feature designed to give supply-chain managers greater confidence that outsourcing to a 3PL yields measurable financial, operations or customer-service improvements.

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Your Next Perfect Employee or Job Is Waiting

SupplyChainBrain and JobsInLogistics have joined forces in 2014 for the specialized purpose of:

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Oracle Releases New Version of E-Business Suite

Oracle Corp. has released version 12.2.4 of the Oracle E-Business Suite.

Logistics Expertise Assists Entry into U.S. Market

Challenge: Recently a well-established European manufacturer of housewares decided to enter the U.S. market. Knowing how important logistics would be to the startup process, their first decision was to select an ideal logistics partner to help develop an entry plan for the American marketplace.

Stanley Black & Decker Finds RFID Technology to Be Highly Useful Tool

AeroScout Industrial, a provider of active radio frequency identification solutions, has installed an "Internet of Everything" system at a power tools plant owned by its parent company, Stanley Black & Decker, located in Reynosa, Mexico. The solution has enabled the firm to improve product throughput and labor efficiency, and to reduce the quantity of inventory stored on site for assembly-line replenishment.

Congress Urged to Renew Africa Trade Act as 'Significant' Sub-Saharan Africa-U.S. Business Growth Reported

The trade relationship between the United States and Africa, as well as the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) - which provides exporters duty-free access to the lucrative U.S. market - was recently put under the microscope at the U.S.-Sub Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum, which coincided with President Barack Obama's U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, both held in Washington last week.

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Cognex Equips Barcode Readers With Real-Time Monitoring

Cognex Corp. has developed a new performance-monitoring system for its DataMan line of barcode readers.

Containership Refrigerated-cargo Capacity Expected to Increase 22 Percent by 2019

Reefer capacity on the containership fleet is expected to increase by 22 percent over the next five years, at the expense of a declining specialized reefer fleet, according to Drewry's latest Reefer Shipping Market Annual Review & Forecast.

Does U.S. Domestic Shipping Still Need the Jones Act?

Should foreign-flag vessels and crews be allowed into the U.S. domestic maritime trades?

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DHL Launches Direct LCL Services in Latin America

DHL Global Forwarding has launched four new direct routes for less-than-containerload (LCL) shipments to countries throughout Latin America.

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