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3PLs Face Mixed Results Across Segments in 2024

While some segments of the logistics market saw expansion, such as dedicated carriage and freight forwarding, others faced slower growth, including freight brokerage and warehousing.

April 10, 2025
Business, Technology, Logistics, Top 100

AIT Buys St. Louis-Based Freight Forwarder Krupp Trucking

Krupp specializes in the transportation of high-value goods, with AIT keen to add the company’s technology logistics sector operations to its portfolio, it said.

January 8, 2025
Business, Equipment, Logistics, Top 100

Logistics Market Faces Challenges Across Segments in 2023

Across the major logistics market segments, 2023 brought a spate of challenges including compressed margins, rising labor costs and inflationary pressures, ensuring a down year for many.

April 12, 2024
Business, Technology, Safety, Logistics

FIATA Seeks to Deter Cyberattacks in Freight Forwarding

FIATA executives stressed that small and medium-size companies must prepare for cybersecurity threats before and after attacks because of a rise in electronic data-sharing.

October 5, 2023
Government, Business, Logistics

Census Bureau: Two Trucking Sectors Prospered During Pandemic

Freight forwarding and longhaul trucking for truckload experienced the highest business booms for revenue during the pandemic, a new U.S. Census Bureau transportation analysis shows.

September 29, 2023
Business, Logistics

FIATA Focuses on Unfair Shipping Competition, Digital Trade Documents

New digitized trade documents and unfair competition from shipping lines infringing on turf for inland cargo are top priorities during a gathering of transportation leaders and government officials convened by the world’s largest freight forwarding association.

May 19, 2022
Business

Odyssey Realigns Business Structure With Four New Divisions

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. realigned its business structure by creating four new operating divisions, the company announced May 4.

May 9, 2022
Business, Technology, Logistics

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Acquires RPM Consolidated Services

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. acquired full-service logistics and warehousing provider RPM Consolidated Services Inc., the Danbury, Conn.-based company announced Jan. 30.

January 31, 2020
Business, Technology, Logistics

SAS Cargo Partners With WebCargo

SAS Cargo will partner with WebCargo, a Freightos Group Co., to provide freight forwarders a digital air cargo service with fully digital live rates, capacity and e-booking, the companies said in a Nov. 26 news release.

December 2, 2019
Business, Logistics

MIQ Logistics Agrees to Buyout by Spanish Firm Noatum

Global freight forwarder MIQ Logistics will become part of Noatum Logistics, a unit of Noatum Maritime Services in Madrid, according to a definitive agreement announced March 21.

March 27, 2019