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> J.B. Hunt Transport Services accelerated international cargo movement from Asia with a long- term, multi-vessel service agreement with Swire Shipping. Under the agreement, J.B. Hunt will have ongoing cargo shipping opportunities available from the Shenzhen, Qingdao, and Shanghai markets in China to ports in California and the Pacific Northwest.
> ShipBob , an omnifulfillment platform, launched its Merchant Plus solution, a standalone warehouse management system (WMS) for merchants that have their own warehouse in the United States. The solution includes access to ShipBob’s carrier infrastructure, support team, and fulfillment experts. > DHL Global Forwarding, the international freight specialist division of Deutsche Post DHL Group, unveiled new features and updates to its digital customer platform myDHLi ,
> FedEx and supply chain visibility company FourKites started a strategic alliance to provide businesses with real-time visibility capabilities to help solve supply chain challenges. FedEx and FourKites are collaborating to bring visibility into multimodal and multi-carrier operations through a new, end-to-end supply chain intelligence platform called FourKites X . > Teleroute, a European freight exchange community for road transport, released TelerouteRecommends , Europe’s first freight AI recommendation engine.
It provides a real-time and continuous feed of new routes and loads that are available and will be of most interest to its freight exchange members, from an efficiency and profit standpoint. The AI engine analyzes data from historical usage of the platform to discover patterns. > Descartes Systems Group released enhancements to its global trade intelligence solution suite. The enhancements help
new sanctions and export controls imposed on Russia and Belarus resulting from the conflict in Ukraine. > Global enterprises can eliminate blind spots across their supply chains and enable data-driven decisions for shipments in transit with CalAmp ’s new partnership with Bristlecone , a provider of AI-powered applications. The partnership will develop joint solutions that leverage Bristlecone’s AI and analytics expertise and real-time data from CalAmp’s supply chain visibility sensors, edge computing devices, and CalAmpTelematics Cloud.
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> Arvato Supply Chain Solutions is expanding its warehouse in Dorsten, Germany. Expected to be completed in September, the expansion will increase processing speed at the site. Its shuttle system will have a capacity of approximately 130,000 totes, each divisible into a maximum of eight compartments, and with a potential storage and retrieval capacity of up to 6,800 totes per hour.
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