Kenco, a provider of distribution, transportation, and supply chain intelligence solutions, hosted partners from around North America for a Customer Summit at the Chicago Hilton Suites. The event provided an opportunity for attendees to share ideas, thoughts, perspectives, trends, challenges, and solutions in a intimate, strategic setting. Round table discussions were moderated by Dr. Ted… Read more »

 Over the years, Interstate Warehousing has developed a comprehensive and holistic approach to food safety with multi­layered compliance and auditing elements built into our pre­requisite programs and GMP’s. Our Best Practices in the area of Food Defense and Food Safety were already well in line with the principal requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act… Read more »

As reported earlier, all “non-essential” federal workers were furloughed and federal agencies cannot continue their routine operations. However, not all agency operations will cease. Agencies can continue to provide essential services and those services funded outside of the appropriation process. While the length of the shutdown still remains uncertain, there is a clear impact on… Read more »

Evans Distribution System is celebrating its 11th consecutive year as one of the top 100 third-party logistics providers in the United States according to Inbound Logistics magazine. Evans Distribution Systems, a family-owned Michigan company with an 84-year history, made the cut among nearly 300 service providers that offer warehousing, transportation and overall supply chain solutions…. Read more »

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 »