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Candy Manufacturer Shifts From Strategy for Nationwide Temp-Controlled Delivery
Challenge: A large manufacturer of candy products wanted to reduce costs and improve service for temperature-controlled deliveries from the company's East Coast manufacturing plant to Midwest and West Coast retailers. The company was using LTL carriers and experiencing poor reliability and customer service.
3PL Finds a Single Platform to Launch Their Business
Challenge: A genesis of many different companies in the transportation industry, this 3PL did not have a cohesive freight management platform for their customers. The company needed a single platform that could offer robust functionality and meet customers' demands.
Chassisfinder.com Rolls Out New Suite of Reporting Tools
Chassisfinder.com has launched ChassisDashboard, a suite of reporting tools designed to help truckers and other chassis users manage their equipment.
GHX Automates Management of Contract Price Negotiations
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) has developed the Single Channel 845 application, to automate the process of managing contract price notifications in the healthcare sector.
Holoptica Expands Operations With New Office in U.K.
The Holoptica Group has opened an office in the United Kingdom.
Paradox Enhances Its Transportation Optimization Suite
Paradox Software Consulting, a provider of logistics software and consulting services, has released version 10.0 of its transportation optimization suite.
China Eases Regulations on Importing Railway Rolling Stock
Every month, XportReporter produces a report on new and opportunities in China's transport and aerospace sectors.
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Forwarding Group to Modify Asian Logistics Methods
Global forwarding group DB Schenker says it has taken a fresh look at the modes of transport usually chosen for moving freight around Asia and switched to a more efficient multimodal option which it has christened the "Asia Landbridge."
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DHL Launches Temperature-Controlled Run Between Brussels, Cincinnati
DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight arm within Deutsche Post DHL, has begun a temperature controlled airfreight service between Brussels and Cincinnati and vice versa. The DHL Aviation Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft will operate the 8.30-hour flight six times per week in each direction and offers reserved space for life sciences products. Real-time tracking and temperature measurement data is available on each flight and can be accessed via a dedicated web portal.
Retail Imports Expected to Drop in Typically Slow February
Import volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to drop 8.4 percent in February from the same time last year as the shipping cycle reaches its slowest month of the year, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.
Leading Logistics Provider Closes More Business, Develops Stronger Customer Relationships
Challenge: A global logistics and transportation service provider working in the chemical and process industries needed to update its manual processes, which could not scale to handle the company's expanding database of international contracts and rates. The company also lacked resources and staff to handle the growing volume of customer quote requests, and undifferentiated service prevented this logistics provider from rising above its competitors.
CMA CGM Launches New Services in Oceania, African Trades
The CMA CGM Group is upgrading its container-carrying offerings between Oceania and the U.S., with the March, 2014 launching of the PAD 2 service.
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