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This article is brought to you courtesy of NEXT Trucking The holiday shopping season is well underway even before Black Friday, as stores roll out promotions and shoppers look to get a head start on deals. For the logistics industry, this means a shorter period than ever to meet the challenge of...

Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA) President and CEO Robert Voltmann expects to see technology play a role in the continued growth of the third-party logistics industry (3PL). Voltmann recently sat down with FreightWaves CEO Craig Fuller to discuss the current trends of the $200...

Contract logistics giant DHL Supply Chain said Sept. 11 it has partnered with truck load-matching platform Convoy to access carriers and rates, making it the first third-party logistics provider to collaborate with Convoy. Under the agreement, DHL Supply Chain, a unit of German conglomerate...

David Bell, co-founder of Lean Staffing Solutions (LSS) and CEO of Lean Tech IO, believes American companies can benefit from nearshore staffing in Colombia.  Bell and Adam Bilzerian, director and investor of LSS and Lean Tech, recently sat down with Craig Fuller to discuss Colombian outsourcing...

Parking and technology will both be featured on this weekend's edition of FreightWaves Radio on SiriusXM Road Dog Trucking.  Co-hosts John Kingston and Timothy Dooner will be joined by Sarah Hernandez, an assistant professor in the engineering school of the University of Arkansas who just...

Armstrong & Associates has been calculating these Global Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Market estimates for over a decade. Image sourced from Pixabay

The good news is that Evan Armstrong of Armstrong & Associates thinks that U.S. third-party logistics providers' (3PLs) revenues will grow at a 7.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next five years, and brokers will become more productive as artificial intelligence automates...

Recent shipping trends reflect a slowdown in user demand across the air, rail, maritime and truckload modes of transport. Those trends seem to have passed by the $42 billion per year less-than-truckload (LTL) segment. Carriers have been in control of the market for two years, demand remains...

One of the more fascinating aspects of the Transportation Intermediaries Association conference is meeting the wide variety of ancillary service providers who work with third-party logistics providers and freight brokerages and help them unlock high growth. Last week in Orlando, FreightWaves met...

A leading provider of transportation management and logistics technology is bringing on a new chief technology officer (CTO) to build more transaction-processing bandwidth and capacity on the company's highly automated platform. Transplace announced that Jim French joined the company as its new...

Redwood Logistics announced its acquisition of Atlanta-based LTX Solutions today, which will allow the growing logistics company to strengthen its core less-than-truckload business and increase its presence across the Southeast. Redwood, a leading Chicago-based brokerage and third-party logistics...

  Long considered an asset stronghold, Memphis welcomes big brokerages   Small and midsize brokers still find Memphis market difficult If you're a broker who wants to play in the Memphis freight market, you'd better come with capacity at scale and a willingness to feel some pain...