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> Saia, a less-than-truckload carrier, opened six new terminals in August 2024: in Cheyenne, Wyoming; Casper, Wyoming; Billings, Montana; Rapid City, South Dakota; Watertown, South Dakota; and Butte, Montana. > Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad —which provides rail freight service between Chicago and Indiana—accepted delivery of 100 new rail cars purpose- built for steel coil shipments. The 48-foot, 115-ton capacity, transverse-style cars can each hold up to five steel coils with no need for dunnage or blocking. > DHL Express launched a Small Business PartnerSHIP Program to provide small and medium-sized enterprises in the United States with resources and support to tap into global markets. The program provides access to shipping promo codes and discounts, simplified shipping solutions, global trade services for guidance on international shipping regulations, and the GoGreen Plus program to reduce carbon emissions. > Seaboard Marine ordered 1,000 Star Cool reefers from Maersk Container Industry (MCI), including a portion of units equipped with Star Cool CA (Controlled Atmosphere). The order includes MCI’s Sekstant reefer monitoring, which provides real-time monitoring and control of the reefer containers.
> Lufthansa Cargo now flies to two more Asian stations—Zhengzhou and Shenzhen—with its B777F long-haul fleet from its home hub in Frankfurt. The carrier added Shenzhen Boa’an International Airport to its freighter network and serves it twice a week; it also recently started operating freighters to Zhengzhou three days a week. > Roadrunner expanded its less-than-truckload (LTL) service to Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and the surrounding areas of Canada. The move follows the launch of LTL shipping into Toronto and Montreal earlier this year. The new LTL service into Western Canada is available for all its origin locations that ship freight to Seattle, Washington.
> The Nokia Autonomous Inventory Monitoring Service (AIMS) added inventory counting functionality, enabling warehouse operators to utilize autonomous drones to individually count items in racked inventory locations. The new capability complements current system features such as finding misplaced and lost inventory, as well as detecting empty bins. Nokia AIMS is delivered as a service, including drones, software, and a cloud-based user interface.
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