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Port Houston remains closed as the Texas Gulf Coast continues to feel the impact of Tropical Storm Nicholas, which has been pounding the area with high winds, rain, and flooding over the last 24 hours. The storm made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane in Texas early Tuesday morning, bringing winds...

Port Houston will close its container terminals in preparation for Tropical Storm Nicholas, which is expected to produce a significant flooding threat around the greater Houston area. The Bayport, Barbours Cut and Turning Basin container terminals will cease ingate operations at 3 p.m. Monday, the...

The market for buying and selling third-party logistics providers and freight brokerages is red hot, according to Capstone Partners investment bankers Burke Smith and Nathan Feldman. Rates for all modes of transportation rose quickly over the past year, pushing up 3PLs' earnings power and making...

Advanced Handling Systems' (AHS) third-party logistics and e-commerce warehouse customers can now choose to deploy robotic solutions from Berkshire Grey for their facilities. AHS, which integrates fulfillment and distribution solutions and counts many Fortune 100, e-commerce, and 3PL companies...

UPS is jumping into the same-day delivery game, announcing Friday that it is acquiring Roadie. Terms were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021. "Roadie's leading technology, combined with UPS' portfolio, will open doors for new growth opportunities,"...

E-commerce has made retail shopping as easy as clicking a button, and telehealth has already brought some of those conveniences to health care. Now, companies are trying to figure out how to use the tools of e-commerce to improve the health care supply chain. How can health care suppliers still...

Some of the largest and most powerful companies in the U.S. will now have a say in shaping transportation policy in a public forum at the Federal Maritime Commission. The FMC announced on Thursday the first 24 members to serve on its newly formed National Shipper Advisory Committee (NSAC), evenly...

This is an excerpt from Thursday's (9/9) Point of Sale retail supply chain newsletter sponsored by ArcBest. During peak holiday season 2013, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) ran into major roadblocks. The company had built a foolproof e-commerce platform where you could buy pretty much anything, and it had a...

Blythe Brumleve returns to her home studio after a month on the road for this new episode of Cyberly. Today's hot topic: getting started on your next endeavour.  Brumleve talks about how the most challenging thing when pursuing something new is often just taking the plunge and doing it, whether...

The Port of Long Beach reported Thursday that the "peak shipping season started with a roar" and had resulted in its strongest August on record.  The port handled 807,704 twenty-foot equivalent units in August, an 11.3% increase from the same month last year. Imports were up 11.7% to 407,426 TEUs...

Inventory levels increased for the nation's largest retailers during the fiscal second quarter that ended July 31. However, when looking at merchandise positions relative to sales, many big-box chains are operating at a significant supply deficit compared to two years ago. Elevated consumer demand...

Canada Cartage has acquired Rapid Delivery, a Canadian trucking company specializing in dedicated domestic and cross-border dedicated freight services. The deal, announced Thursday, adds around 20 power units and two Ontario terminals — in London and Windsor. It marks the fourth acquisition in...

Alibaba.com, the business-to-business platform of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding (NASDAQ: BABA), said Thursday it has added dropshipping and other transport and logistics services for its U.S.-based small to midsize customers that increasingly rely on digital tools to grow their...

A transload facility at Vancouver developed by Maersk and Canadian Pacific is open for business. The new Pacific Transload Express facility will bring "more speed and agility to demand fluctuations while also reducing demurrage and detention costs," Maersk touted Thursday. The facility opened Sept...

The world's largest regulatory agencies overseeing international container trades met remotely to discuss rampant supply chain disruptions as carriers and their customers brace for more turmoil during the fall peak shipping season. The fifth biennial meeting of the Global Regulatory Summit, hosted...