Representatives from the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and U.S.  Maritime Alliance (USMX) has approved a tentative six year master contract. Members will now vote to ratify the deal. “I am extremely pleased to announce that today the parties have approved their tentative agreement for a successor Master Agreement.  In doing so, the parties have successfully… Read more »

Sunland Distribution, Inc. is pleased to announce their recent purchase of a 722,000 sq. ft. warehouse facility. Located conveniently off of I-85 and I-385 on 1312 Old Stage Road in Simpsonville, SC, the multi-tenant industrial facility spans a total of 600,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space on the ground floor and an additional 120,000 sq…. Read more »

Henningsen Cold Storage received USDA Organic Certification after Oregon Tilth evaluated its Portland, OR facilities. Both of the company’s Portland warehouses met the strict requirements set forth by USDA’s National Organic Program. Among other things, organic certification requires extensive effort and documentation to ensure organic products never commingle with nonorganic products. Organic food consumption has… Read more »

Customer Testimonial: What I like about Kenco is that you are big enough to handle our business and everything we throw at you, but you are small enough that we are important to you.” Kenco is the largest woman-owned third­-party logistics company in the United States, They provide integrated logistics solutions that include distribution and… Read more »

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Conduct a financial checkup of your potential 3PL partners before you sign the contract. Although we seem to be climbing out from the lowest points of the recent recession, a great deal of financial instability still plagues the logistics sector. Fiscal cliffs, tax reforms, fluctuating… Read more »

PRISM Team Services – our dry warehouse client in Hayward, Livermore, Stockton and Sacramento helped the residents affected by Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey with a generous donation.  Please see the letter attached thanking PRISM Team Services for their thoughts and donation during this difficult time.

MULTIMODAL: Dow Jones Transportation Index Dow Jones Transportation index rose 6.1% during the month of January. (Stock performance of twenty large, well-known U.S. companies in the transportation industry, average of January 10th thru February 10th) NASDAQ Transportation Index NASDQ Transportation index increased 1.9% in January. (Average share weights of NASDAQ-listed companies classified as transportation companies,… Read more »

Affiliated Warehouse Companies, Inc. in honor and memory of my father Jim McBride, our past leader and mentor that built and ran our company for over 42 years that passed from cancer over two years ago, we continue to support Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with an annual donation.  Please see attached letter congratulating us for… Read more »

Interstate Warehousing has fin­ished the Phase IV expansion at its Indianapolis (Franklin), IN cold storage facility. The compa­ny, part of the Tippmann Group, has also completed an expansion of its warehouse in Joliet, IL. The 140,000 sq. ft. expan­sion brings the total size of that facility to 568,000 sq. ft.  Originally constructed in 2005, it… Read more »

Tony Lucarelli, executive vice president of Henningsen Cold Storage, Portland, OR has been elected president of the World Group, a strategic partner­ship of independent North Amer­ican frozen and refrigerated logistics and warehousing com­panies. Luis Jorba, chief executive officer of Frialsa Frigorificos, Mexico City, Mexico, was elect­ed vice president. The new secretary is Stan Bigford, chief… Read more »