Supply chain

The Japanese economy shrank 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 from the preceding quarter, or at an annualized pace of 0.4 percent, in real terms, the Cabinet Office said in a preliminary report on Thursday.

UPS has formed a strategic collaboration with Jabil Circuit, an electronic product solutions company.

Dallas-based Greatwide Logistics Services and Concord, N.C.-based Cardinal Logistics Management have completed their merger.

The National Watermelon Promotion Board has recommended the elimination of the Watermelon Research and Promotion Plan importer membership condition that requires importers to...

Weber Logistics and Aspen Logistics have formed an alliance, combining their warehouse and direct delivery networks in the western U.S.

Globe Express Services has hired Christopher Slotten as senior vice president and chief commercial officer. He will join the company on March 1.

If the Feb. 13 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing often seemed a pre-emptive strike against “devolutionists” seeking to shift control of the infrastructure purse strings to the states, that’s because it was just that.

Prologis has signed two build-to-suit agreements with BMW of North America, totaling 609,000 square feet.

Fort Myers, Fla.-based Data2Logistics has appointed Bob Newcom as director of professional services.

U.S. poultry exporters face a litany of challenges this year: Record feed grain prices; import quotas and an ever-shifting regulatory regime in Russia; and tariffs and countervailing duties totaling 104 percent in China.

Logistics company Janel World Trade reported a net loss of $201,286 in the first quarter of fiscal year 2013, ending Dec. 31, 2012, improving from a net loss of $246,912 in the same quarter...

The private sector is willing to pay higher user fees to fund transportation infrastructure and is ready to unleash a quarter of a trillion dollars in capital for public-private partnerships, Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue said on Wednesday

Thailand has amended its import conditions related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as “mad cow disease,” which will facilitate the exports of bovine products from the EU.

Bud Wright, executive director of American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, has applauded President Obama’s reference to infrastructure investment in his recent...

The retail and manufacturing industries have remarked on President Obama’s recent State of the Union address, commending his focus on job creation, while also offering a few suggestions.

Government officials, politicians and business and industry leaders have commended the decision of the U.S. and the European Union to initiate the necessary internal procedures for the launch of...

President Obama said the right things about investing in transportation infrastructure and removing trade barriers with Asia and Europe during his State of the Union address Tuesday.

The European Union will co-finance a project to raise bridges on the Albert Canal in the Flanders region in Belgium to allow taller ships and barges to access the waterway.

Mumbai, India-based Allcargo Logistics reported profit after tax in the third quarter of fiscal year 2013, ending Dec. 31, 2012, was Rs. 36.1 crore (about US$6.7 million), falling 29 percent...

I.D. Systems, which provides wireless solutions for managing enterprise assets, has received a series of purchase orders from Walgreens for its PowerFleet wireless vehicle management system.

Joseph (Joe) M. Baker, Jr., of Annapolis, Md., former executive director of the National Cargo Security Council, died on Feb. 8. He was two days shy of his 86th birthday.

Commercial real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $83 million sale of bookseller Barnes & Noble’s primary distribution center located in New Jersey.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and Consumer Product Safety Commission investigators have seized multiple shipments of nearly 30,000 toys imported into the Port of San Juan...

Union Pacific Railroad is receiving the first of 225 72-foot boxcars it ordered from Greenbrier Industries.

London-based TT Club, an insurer that provides cargo, property and liability coverage to freight forwarders and logistics companies, recently reported that innovation in the logistics sector is...

SDV has opened SDV Colombia in the capital city of Bogota.

Eden Prairie, Minn.-based third-party logistics provider C.H. Robinson’s board of directors has appointed Jodee Kozlak, 49, as its newest director.

UPS has launched a new express air freight service, UPS Worldwide Express Freight, for urgent international heavyweight shipments.

State departments of transportation and local governments committed more than $117 billion in funding for highway, bridge, transit, port and other transportation-related...

The U.S. has requested World Trade Organization dispute settlement consultations with India’s government regarding domestic content requirements in India’s national solar...

A new report from logistics security services provider FreightWatch International shows the total number of cargo thefts in the United States last year was close to the record set in 2011 — and the number of stolen meat shipments continued to climb.

The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, through the Department of Commerce, reported that for the full year of 2012...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the European Union recently implemented a mutual recognition decision between...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service is seeking comments on the Dairy Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing Program.

UPS expanded its direct less-than-containerload offering to more than 300 additional ocean lanes in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America in 2012.