warehousing

Livestock shippers are asking the Biden administration to issue an emergency waiver of work-rule restrictions for truckers hauling both livestock and meat products to avoid transportation delays in the wake of the cyberattack on global meat supplier JBS. In a letter sent Wednesday to Secretary of...

The transportation industry is primed for uncertainty and well accustomed to chaos, but virtually every segment of the industry has experienced growing pains as consumer demand roared back to life in a new, recovering economy. Trucking capacity is tight and getting tighter. Multiple U.S. ports...

Improving fulfillment efficiency is a goal of virtually all successful warehouse operations. It's an especially necessary aim now. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt global supply chains. It's spurring consumers to buy online to avoid spending time in spaces that could increase...

A.P. Møller – Maersk said Wednesday it had agreed to buy U.S. warehousing and distribution firm Performance Team in a $545 million deal. The Danish shipping giant said the total includes about $225 million in lease liabilities. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and the transaction...

The food and beverage industry expanded its share of the nation's 100 largest industrial and logistics leases in 2019 as increased demand for grocery delivery led to more investment in warehouses and distribution centers, according to a report issued Thursday by CBRE Group Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), a real...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the California Air Resources Board say the city of Moreno Valley disregarded state environmental regulations when it approved the massive World Logistics Center warehouse project in 2015. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed Jan. 10 with the Fourth...

Sydney, Australia-based global logistics software provider WiseTech has announced the purchase of customs, bonded warehouse and trade compliance solutions provider Ready Korea for just over A$20 million. Seoul-headquartered Ready Korea provides customs clearance services, bonded warehouse...

Like every segment of supply chains, warehousing faces intense pressure to enhance process efficiency. Witness the automation that has slowly crept into its operations: Workers are increasingly being replaced on repetitive tasks as businesses perceive higher efficiency with machines than humans....

Logistics real estate giant Prologis Inc. (NYSE: PLD) and Norges Bank Investment Management, the investment arm of Norway's oil fund, have struck a deal to acquire a 19 million-square-foot U.S. portfolio in a $1.99 billion deal, the Norges Bank arm said. Under the terms of a joint venture...

Multimodal logistics service provider Europa Worldwide Group has appointed Alec Kirkbride, the former national building manager of supermarket chain Aldi Stores U.K., as the head of property for its new £60 million state-of-the-art logistics facility being built at Midlands Logistics Park in Corby...

Ware2Go, a UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) company that provides on-demand warehousing and distribution center services, said Nov. 18 it has teamed with Fundera, a financial marketplace, to bundle physical distribution and financial services for small and midsize businesses. Under the agreement, Ware2Go...

The race to secure logistics real estate in key parts of northern Europe has been heating up ever since the U.K. elected to leave the European Union in 2016. It is showing no signs of slowing. Notable investments this year alone include the €24 million ($26.5 million) purchase of a logistics...

Dry bulk transportation company A&R Logistics said it will open its largest east coast export facility near the port of Charleston to tap the strong market for shipping U.S.-produced plastic resins.  The $60 million facility will be located in Berkeley County, South Carolina. The new facility...

"If you build it, they will come." They prophesy has come true as a multi-story warehouse building built in Seattle by commercial real-estate giant Prologis (NYSE: PLD) has its first tenants: Amazon and Home Depot. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will take almost 500,000 square feet of space and...

The never-ending proliferation of apps and other technologies available to truckers can be overwhelming at times, and the founder of a company designed to help truckers navigate the confusion will be one of the guests on FreightWaves Radio over the weekend of June 29-30. Prasad Gollapalli is the...