VersaCold Logistics, Vancouver, B.C., and Atlas Cold Storage, Toronto, officially merged and will operate under the named VersaCold Logistics Services.
Henningsen Cold Storage Co., Hillsboro, Ore., said it opened the "Henningsen Transload Center" -- served by both the United Pacific and Burlington Northern Sante Fe railroads.
To lower interest expenses and overall debt, global shipping and logistics services provider Hf Eimskipafelag Islands, Reykjavik, Iceland, said it expects by the end of 2008 to sell VersaCold Atlas.
It’s been 50 years since supply chain pioneers Harvey Shycon and Richard Maffei used a primitive computer to complete their first-of-a-kind “physical distribution optimization” plan for the H. J. Heinz Co.
Stellar, a Jacksonville, Fla., design-build firm, said it completed a 260,000-square-foot refrigerated and frozen food distribution center in Rocky Hill, Conn., for Burris Logistics.
Atlanta-based AmeriCold Logistics, the nation's largest public refrigerated warehouse and logistics services provider, said it hired Jos Opdeweegh as chief executive officer, effective immediately.
Supply chains are the lifeblood of retailers, distributors and manufacturers. However, threats abound all over the world and – with globalization making supply chains longer and more complex – the risks keep increasing.
My first inclination was to title this piece, “Surviving the slump.” But I realized, perhaps, it should be amended to say we’re “surviving a continued slump” - considering that we have seen a steady climb in logistics costs during the past four years.