Supply chain

Dollar General will open 635 new stores next year, building on the 625 stores the retail giant is on track to open by the end of 2012.

The National Association of Manufacturers’ President and CEO Jay Timmons today said in a released statement that the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Ambient Air Quality Standards for fine particulate matter is a display of the agency’s “shortsightedness.”

The New York-New Jersey Foreign Freight Forwarders and Brokers Association has selected Claudio Bozzo, president and CEO of Mediterranean Shipping Company...

Cosco Container Lines will increase rates by $500 per box for reefer shipments from the Far East to Persian Gulf, Red Sea and Indian subcontinent, effective Jan. 1, 2013.

Striking port clerical workers had barely raised their picket signs at Los Angeles-Long Beach this month when shippers began clamoring for President Obama to use the Taft-Hartley Act to end the walkout.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered Two Dayes Trucking and Two Dayes Transport, based in Murfreesboro, N.C., to cease all transportation services immediately because of safety violations.

The Import Specialist Enforcement Team at U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Laredo, Texas, port of entry recently seized an $83 million commercial shipment of...

Lakeland-Fla.-based third-party logistics provider Saddle Creek Logistics Services today named Amy Barnes as director of business development.

Third-party logistics company C.H. Robinson Worldwide today announced that Senior Vice President Jim Butts will retire on Dec. 31, after 34 years with the company.

The U.S. Senate today approved H.R. 2838, the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2012, clearing the House-passed bill for the president’s signature.

San Francisco-based Prologis’ board of directors has approved sponsorship of a Japanese real estate investment trust to serve as a long-term investment vehicle for modern logistics facilities.

U.S. pork exports in October increased 9 percent to a record 218,132 metric tons (about 240,449 tons) valued at $607 million, according to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

German logistics provider Dachser will acquire Spanish logistics provider Azkar, effective Jan. 15, 2013.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., severely downplayed the prospects of a federal fuel tax hike...

The Defense Department's decision to drop the TWIC card as a trusted key to its online transportation systems doesn’t throw up roadblocks that would stop TWIC-carrying truckers, but it will raise costs for some companies that employ them.

Dallas-based supply chain management company Entercoms has named Michael Smith as chief commercial officer.

Lineage Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company sponsored by Bay Grove Capital, plans to open and operate a new 196,000 square foot cold storage facility at the Port of Long Beach by mid-2014.

Truckload line-haul costs for November rose 1.4 percent from October and 2.7 percent from November 2011, as costs moved modestly upward for the second straight month, according to Cass Truckload Linehaul Index.

Graybar, a company specializing in electrical products and related logistics services, has elected Randall R. Harwood senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective Jan. 1, 2013.

The European Parliament approved a series of free trade pacts with Colombia, Peru and six Central America nations.

Logistics technology company Transplace, PepsiCo, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and multiple carriers recently released a survey of more than 65 transportation carriers to gain insight into...

ELITE Association of Logistics Networks officially launched today, following the qualification of nine major global logistics networks as founding members, to act as a body to represent the independent freight forwarding...

Denis Lebel, Canada’s Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, and Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, today introduced the Fair Rail Freight Service Act bill...

Berlin-based logistics and rail company DB Schenker, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG, has expanded its offerings to include a new “leadlogistics” service.

Retailers project a drop in containerized imports in November because of the eight-day clerical workers strike in Los Angeles-Long Beach, but volumes should be up 3.9 percent in December compared to the same month last year.

Sinergy Cargo, the Italian member of the FPS network of freight forwarders, has opened a multimodal container and bulk cargo handling and storage center in Arquata Scrivia, Italy...

The U.S. Department of the Army has issued a notice that the Transportation Worker Identification Credential can no longer be used to authenticate users for access to Electronic Transportation Acquisition, effective Jan. 29, 2013.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently seized 35,712 imported holiday-themed rubber ducks, worth $18,522, at the Port of Los Angeles for containing too much phthalate...

India’s federal government has extended a 2 percent interest subsidy on pre- and post-shipment export credit for labor intensive sectors, including handicrafts, carpets, handlooms...

India’s federal government has taken steps to meet demand for edible oils in the country, according to India's Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.

Supply chain management company Jaguar Freight Services has relocated its London-based European Center of Operational Excellence to the refurbished former Elizabeth Arden factory in Acton, London...

The Teamsters Union recently argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s pilot program to open the border to Mexican trucks must be shut down...

U.S. shippers could get some holiday cheer if Congress passes legislation by the end of the year that would suspend tariffs on materials and products not available domestically.

European spply chain management company Norbert Dentressangle has acquired part of the warehousing and general cargo freight forwarding activities of Belgium-based maritime logistics company Nova Natie.

The U.S. has asked the World Trade Organization to establish a dispute settlement panel to examine Argentina’s import restrictions on all U.S. goods.

Freight forwarding and logistics company Lynden International recently named Sergio Lotero as business development manager for Latin America, and Roark Beckstead as business development director in Los Angeles.

Clean Energy Fuels has finished the first stage of America’s Natural Gas Highway, a network of LNG truck fueling stations to support long-haul, heavy-duty goods movement along major interstate corridors...