The Cargo Airline Association, which represents ABX Air, Atlas Air, FedEx and UPS in the halls of government, has named Lauren Beyer, the vice president of security and facilitation at Airlines for America (A4A), to succeed Steve Alterman as president. Alterman is retiring after leading the organization for more than 40 years, it announced Tuesday. …
Cargo-focused Rickenbacker International Airport is diversifying its business with the opening of the first cold storage facility in Ohio dedicated to pharmaceuticals shipped by air transport. While most airports typically act as landlords for companies granted development rights, the Columbus Regional Airport Authority opted to invest, build and manage the pharma handling center itself while…
E2open, a provider of supply chain software with disastrous fourth-quarter fiscal year 2023 earnings that sent the company’s stock plunging, began to turn things around in the quarter that ended May 31. The first quarter of the company’s 2024 fiscal year was by some measures not much better than the prior quarter or the corresponding…
The Canadian west coast ports strike is creating a trade situation we have not seen since COVID. The ITS Logistics Port/Rail Ramp Freight Index shows nothing but a sea of red, and the fuel heating up this dumpster fire is the reconsignment of containers once bound for Canada, which will now be unloaded in the…
Real-time visibility provider Tive announced Tuesday it has completed upgrading its solutions to enable full end-to-end shipment transparency. Tive’s trackers and the data derived from them can now be integrated directly into customers’ transportation management systems, warehouse management systems and other management solutions through an application programming interface integration with the company’s cloud-based platform. “With…