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PS Logistics | March 02, 2021

A Birmingham 100 firm has another acquisition under its belt. Flatbed transportation organization PS Holdco LLC, otherwise called PS Logistics, has purchased all substantial transportation resources of Shoals, Indiana-based Jason Jones Trucking Inc. (JJT). JJT will keep on working under the Jason Jones Trucking brand name. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “JJT brings great freight synergies to both our companies as well as our cus...

A&R Logistics | June 24, 2020

A&R Logistics ("A&R") today announced the expansion of its leadership team in three key strategic businesses – In-Plant Services, Global 3PL and East Coast Export Services – to further establish the company as the leading provider of end-to-end supply chain solutions to the chemical industry.With more than 20 years of experience in the oil and gas and petrochemical industries, Chuck Wells was selected to lead commercial growth for A&R's In-Plant Servic...

UPS | May 28, 2020

UPS announces peak surcharges on certain domestic shipments starting Sunday. The surcharges will apply to Ground Residential and SurePost packages if a shipper's volume the prior week was more than 25,000 packages greater than the shipper's average daily volume in February. The surcharge is $0.30 per package.UPS will also impose a large parcel surcharge of $31.45 per package. UPS will also impose a surcharge of $31.45 per package on large parcels.UPS defines large package as one wi...

SOFTWARE AND TECHNOLOGY

GAINS | June 13, 2022

GAINSystems, a provider of innovative cloud-based supply chain planning solutions, unveiled GAINS Continuous Network Flow Optimization (CNFO) at the 2022 Gartner® Supply Chain Symposium/XPO™ in Orlando. CNFO was developed in collaboration with our customers and GAINS Lab's data scientists to align the speed of decision-making with continuous supply chain changes. The new offering uses real-time data to drive immediate actions that address critical supply chain questions, strategic ...