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GEODIS | July 09, 2021

GEODIS, a global supply chain operator, has agreed to buy almost all of the assets of Velocity Freight Transport, Inc., a leading freight brokerage firm headquartered in Plano, Texas, from McLane Company Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary. The acquisition broadens GEODIS' Capacity Solutions offering in North America at a critical juncture in the industry's ongoing driver and truck shortages. Velocity's acquisition will help meet increasing customer demand for additi...

Logistics

businesswire | March 23, 2023

Slync, Inc. (“Slync.io”) today announced that its Logistics Orchestration technology has been successfully integrated by Century Supply Chain Solutions into their VIZIV Supply Chain Optimization Platform to fully automate the ocean freight booking process. The Slync platform supports VIZIV in consuming and interpreting the constant flow of emails and attachments that coincide with container bookings, saving origin operations teams hundreds of hours of manual effort e...

Transportation

Aurora Innovation, Inc. | May 19, 2022

Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUR) and FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) announced the expansion of their pilot program to autonomously move FedEx shipments on an additional commercial lane in Texas. In March 2022, Aurora's next-generation autonomous trucks – based on the new Peterbilt 579 – began to transport FedEx shipments between Aurora’s new terminals in Fort Worth and El Paso. Aurora is making the 600-mile trip on a weekly basis with safety drivers on board an...

C.H. Robinson | January 23, 2020

C.H. Robinson has remained one of the most technologically innovative companies in the supply chain. That is continuing Thursday morning as C.H. Robinson has formally introduced C.H. Robinson Labs. The innovation incubator is designed to create, test and scale technology solutions for the global logistics giant and its customers. Informally known as Robinson Labs, the incubator will be led by Tim Gagnon, vice president of analytics and data science at C.H. Robinson. Dedicated data science teams ...