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Trailer Bridge, Highway Partner on Tech Stack

Trailer Bridge Inc., the Jacksonville, Florida-based full-service transportation provider, said it has partnered with technology provider Highway to enhance its tech stack and better support its customers and carrier partners.Highway specializes in Carrier Identity® solutions for brokers, providing the necessary data to reduce fraud and source trusted carriers for every load. The technology platform is a part of the company’s focus on strengthening its carrier partnerships and overall operational efficiency ... [+]

Supply Chains Disruptions Climb 38%, Resilinc

Supply chain risk and compliance platform provider Resilinc said its EventWatchAI database revealed that overall disruptions to global supply chains increased 38 percent from 2023.EventWatchAI, a risk monitoring database found the top five disruptions in 2024 were factory fires, labor disruption, business sales, leadership transition ... [+]

Supply Chain Peak Season Falls Short, Deposco

There was a substantial disconnect between supply chain leaders’ expected and actual performance during the 2024 holiday season, according to post-peak analysis by Deposco, the supply chain software provider.While 93 percent of organizations entered peak season confident in meeting customer expectations, 58 percent struggled with ... [+]

Kaleris Makes C-suite Appointments

Supply chain execution solutions provider Kaleris has made several appointments to its executive team: Bob White as CFO, Preshant Bhatia as chief go-to market officer, or CGMO, and Marc Degenkolb as chief revenue officer.White brings experience in financial expertise and strategic insight in planning, financial ... [+]

PayCargo, Gnosis Freight, Hapag-Lloyd Partner

Logistics payment platform PayCargo and Gnosis Freight, a provider of supply chain visibility and execution software for shipping containers, on March 3 announced an integration and partnership with leading liner shipper Hapag-Lloyd to launch the Container Payment Portal, or CPP.             Hapag-Lloyd has released plans to ... [+]

Global Trade to Grow in Spite of Trump, DHL

Global trade will still grow even if all tariffs proposed during President Donald Trump’s election campaign are implemented, and other countries retaliate, said in the latest edition of its Trade Atlas, published on March 12. However, the tariffs could significantly reduce the rate of ... [+]

American Lamprecht Adopts Descartes Solution

Descartes Systems Group, a provider of on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions, said Illinois-based freight forwarder American Lamprecht has employed its cloud-based forwarder enterprise billing and accounting solution.Using Descartes’ shipment tracking capabilities, which are integrated with Descartes’ cloud-based forwarder enterprise billing and accounting solution, American Lamprecht can provide ... [+]

CK Hutchison-MSC in $22.8 Billion Ports Deal

The BlackRock-TiL Consortium and CK Hutchison said March 4 they have reached in principle agreements whereby BlackRock-TiL will acquire HPH’s 90 percent interest in the Panama Ports Co.,BlackRock-TiL will also acquire CK Hutchison’s 80 percent effective and controlling interest in subsidiary and associated companies owning, ... [+]

Trump Seeks China Ship Fees to Benefit US Flag

The Trump administration has proposed fees on the use of China’s commercial ships to combat the Asian giant’s maritime dominance, Bloomberg reported Feb. 21The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative outlined a plan for fees on Chinese-built ships that transport traded goods, as well as ... [+]

Tariffs Threat Boosts Port of Long Beach Volume

The Port of Long Beach started 2025 with its strongest January on record and its second-busiest month ever, largely driven by retailers moving cargo ahead of the anticipated tariffs on goods from China, Mexico and Canada.Dockworkers and terminal operators moved 952,733 twenty-foot equivalent units, or ... [+]