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MHI | July 28, 2020

MHI announces the release of the third in a series of U.S. Material Handling & Logistics Roadmaps. The report, titled “Transformation Age: Shaping Your Future” and developed in collaboration with Burchette & Associates, Inc., provides insights into key trends and technologies that will impact the success of supply chains over the next 10 to 20 years.Because the trends covered in the report have been so deeply impacted by COVID-19, a special section focusing on the pande...

PROCUREMENT AND SOURCING,FREIGHT

Convoy, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., and Uber Freight | December 07, 2022

Convoy, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., and Uber Freight announced the formation of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC) which aims to solve transportation scheduling challenges by establishing the freight industry's first formal set of appointment scheduling application programming interface (API) standards. Complex, pervasive, industry-wide challenges such as this require collaborative, industry-wide solutions; the makeup of the SSC's founding members underscores the need to stan...

TRANSPORTATION

Echo Global Logistics, Inc | May 06, 2022

Echo Global Logistics, Inc. ("Echo"), a leading provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services, and Roadtex Transportation Management, Roadtex Transportation, and Roadtex Corp ("Roadtex"), a leading provider of integrated temperature-controlled supply chain solutions, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement for Echo to acquire Roadtex. "We've been following Roadtex and are very ...

UPS | August 20, 2020

A combination of tight capacity and rising volume means logistics costs will continue to "improve" in UPS' favor, according to a research note from UBS, penned after a meeting between analysts at the bank and UPS' investor relations team."UPS is transitioning to a slower pace of capacity addition in 2021 and we believe broader package industry capacity expansion is also likely to be modest," the research note reads. "Assuming a backdrop of economic growth i...