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Excess International Movers Makes Shipping Possessions Easier For Migrants

With the current economic recession still holding down house prices, and making it difficult to sell, Excess International Movers have come up with a new service to assist migrants. Normally migrants heading for Australia, New Zealand, or Canada; the traditional migration destinations, have their furniture and household goods packed in ...

Moving Scams in Los Angeles on the Rise

Not everyone moving to Los Angeles is very excited about it, because many people moving to LA have been victimized by the fraudulent LA moving companies. In the recent months, there have been several reports of cases related to moving scams in Los Angeles, which is cause of serious concern ...

Supply Chain Consulting and Trainings Across Global Borders

Clear Vantage adds several trainings on "Logistics" to the existing package! Clear Vantage has now a global structure with Supply Chain Management experts located in Europe, United States, India and China. With the engagement of its international partners, Clear Vantage has turned quite challenging tasks into real success stories demonstrating excellence ...

DGL Wow’s Client with IES Technology

When Linda Snyder, President of freight forwarder Diversified Global Logistics (DGL), purchased the Memphis branch of Forward Logistics Group in 2007, she quickly realized the challenges presented by a name change, "All our customers knew us by another name, and everyone was a little skittish at first. We knew we ...

Leading Lean Logistics Service Provider Benefits From Real-Time-Location-System (RTLS) Enhanced Visibility Added To Yard Management Solution

PINC Solutions, the leader in cost-effective real-time asset visibility technology, announced today that Transfreight has implemented PINC Solutions’ Yard Hound at its Toyota-dedicated crossdocking facility and the adjacent manufacturing plant located in Woodstock, Ontario. Yard Hound added automated real-time visibility for asset tracking to an existing yard management and shunt ...

PINC Solutions, The Leader In Cost-Effective Yard Management Solutions, Named 2009 Supply & Demand Chain Executive Top-100

PINC Solutions, the leader in cost-effective yard management solutions based on real-time asset visibility technology, has been named by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine among its 2009 top-100 providers of supply chain services and solutions. This year the magazine focused the criteria for its "100" feature on economic recovery. The ...

Quadstone Paramics Now Provides Integrated Support For Google’s Popular 3D Modelling Tool, SketchUp

Quadstone Paramics now provides integrated support for Google's popular 3D modelling tool, SketchUp, bridging the gap between transport engineer and 3D modeller. Google's 3D Warehouse contains thousands of both in house and third party developed SketchUp models which transport engineers can now utilise to create detailed visualisations of a given ...

Leading Innovator Provides Real-Time-Visibility Enabled Supply Chain Management Solution To The CPG Giant For The Annual Award Honoring Best Practices In Logistics

PINC Solutions, the leading innovator in real-time visibility enabled supply chain management solutions, today announces that its customer, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, has been awarded the 2009 Logistics Best Practices Gold Award for the company’s yard management project using a system provided by PINC. The winning case study of the trailer tracking project ...

PINC Solutions Named Inbound Logistics Top-100 Logistics IT Company for 2009

PINC Solutions, the leader in cost-effective, real-time asset visibility technology, has been named by Inbound Logistics Magazine among its 2009 Top 100 Logistics IT Providers. Every April, Inbound Logistics editors recognize 100 logistics IT companies that support and enable logistics excellence. Drawn from a pool of more than 500 companies, using ...

Braidwood Associates Has Announced That Matthew Juckes Has Been Appointed To Lead The Company’s Second And Newest American Office In New Jersey

Juckes joins the Scottish headquartered specialist microsimulation traffic modelling consultancy having previously worked on projects for some of America's largest departments of transportation including New York City, New York State, Wisconsin, California and New Jersey. Braidwood Associates, which was established in 2005 by Scottish entrepreneur Richard Braidwood, opened its first US office in ...

PINC Solutions Announces New Extension of Yard Hound™ Products for Real-Time Monitoring of Temperature Controlled Trailers

PINC Solutions, the leader in cost-effective yard management solutions based on real-time asset visibility technologies, announces the latest addition to its growing portfolio of RTLS-enabled yard visibility and management products for cold chain management applications. Yard Hound Reefer enables automated, remote monitoring of the current temperature inside refrigerated trailers and ...

Staveley Head One Of The Country’s Leading HGV Insurance Providers Has Said That It’s Possible The Haulage Industry May Be The New Barometer To Assess Fluctuations In The Economy

A Staveley Head spokesman said "Traditionally it was always the motor manufacturing industry that was recognised as the barometer for any economic recession or recovery, but of course we no longer have sufficient motor manufacturing capacity in the UK on which to base an opinion. More recently it has been ...

Friendly Man & Van

For over the past 15 years, I’ve worked in one of the most demanding fields imaginable – the man and van industry (first as a trainee and eventually as a team supervisor over a group of movers). Not only is the work physically demanding for man and van, but also ...

National Carrier Gulf Air And TNT Express, One Of The World’s Leading Providers Of Express Delivery Services, Have Signed A Global Incentive Agreement Programme (GIAP)

The GIAP, introduced by Gulf Air in 2007, is designed to provide its key global partners with incentives to boost their cargo traffic volumes and reciprocally ensure that Gulf Air is endorsed as a 'Core Carrier' of its partners. "Global incentive arrangements are a key strategy in building effective partnerships, especially when it ...

Microsimulation Traffic Modelling Specialists Announce United States Expansion

Braidwood Associates, the specialist microsimulation trafficmodelling consultancy, has announced it is to open a second office in the United States to enable it to expand its existing portfolio of clients. Braidwood Associates was set up in 2005 by Scottish entrepreneur Richard Braidwood, and is expected to report a fourth year of income ...

Jungheinrich Presents Five Dealer Organizations With Its 2008 Elite Sales Award

Jungheinrich Lift Truck Corp., a world leader in the design and manufacture of industrial trucks, recently presented its Elite Sales Awards to five of its top-selling dealers for 2008. John Sneddon, Jungheinrich’s President, recognized the award recipients at a special event held in Chicago during the week of the ProMat ...

Pilot Freight Services, a worldwide provider of transportation and logistics services, has signed a multi-year contract with Catapult International for its international ocean rate management system called Catapult QMS

Catapult will consolidate all of Pilot's ocean contracts into an easy-to-use website where employees and customers will be able to sort rates by an origin/destination combination. Rates and surcharges are managed by Catapult’s maritime analysts. "Catapult's technology will drastically reduce our quoting time by providing an instant rate web interface for ...

PINC Solutions, Leading Innovator in Real-Time-Visibility, Awarded Red Herring Top 100 Global Company

PINC Solutions, the leading innovator in real-time visibility enabled supply chain management solutions, today announce that it has been awarded as one of the Red Herring Top 100 Global Companies. Chosen from a pool of 1,800 successful and highly eligible companies, the Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process to ...

Alliance Air Freight Will Be Expanding Its Operation Into An Office To Be Located In South San Francisco CA

Billy Dubb of Alliance Air Freight, Inc. announced today, that Alliance Air Freight /www.ShipAlliance.com will be expanding its operation into an office to be located in South San Francisco CA. This location will house departments for both domestic and international freight logistics services. Alliance Air Freight is both a domestic provider and ...

Braidwood Associates Has Teamed Up With Heart Of Midlothian Football Club To Make A Special Donation To Busoga College Mwiri, In Jinja, Uganda

Braidwood Associates, Traffic Planning and Traffic Engineering Services, team up with Heart of Midlothian Football Club to provide soccer strips to Busoga College Mwiri, in Jinja, Uganda Braidwood Associates, leading independent Traffic Planning and Traffic Engineering Services consultancy, has linked up with the African school through the Graduate Transportation Modeller, Grant K. Rugarama. ...

Excess International Movers Makes Shipping Possessions Easier For Migrants

With the current economic recession still holding down house prices, and making it difficult to sell, Excess International Movers have come up with a new service to assist migrants. Normally migrants heading for Australia, New Zealand, or Canada; the traditional migration destinations, have their furniture and household goods packed in ...

Moving Scams in Los Angeles on the Rise

Not everyone moving to Los Angeles is very excited about it, because many people moving to LA have been victimized by the fraudulent LA moving companies. In the recent months, there have been several reports of cases related to moving scams in Los Angeles, which is cause of serious concern ...

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