Recent Headlines
Famous Pacific Shipping Expands in Zhongshan
Fast-growing Asia Pacific-based NVOCC and freight services provider, Famous Pacific Shipping (FPS) has established a new office in Zhongshan, a leading industrial city which hosts some of the world’s largest shoe factories. - July 30, 2008 - Famous Pacific Shipping
Unilever Service Award for Famous Pacific Shipping
In the Philippines, Unilever has presented Famous Pacific Forwarding Phils with a Service Vendor Award in recognition of the excellent standards of transport and logistics services that have been provided over the last decade. - July 23, 2008 - Famous Pacific Shipping
Advance International Helps to Clear the Air in Bulgaria; Radioactive Shipment Demonstrates Freight Forwarder's Capabilities
International freight forwarder, Advance International Transport is playing a significant role in efforts to reduce potentially harmful emissions from one of Europe’s dirtiest electricity generating plants. - July 18, 2008 - Advance International Transport
Logistic Dynamics Ranked 6th Fastest Growing Company in WNY
Logistic Dynamics, Inc. (LDI), a Buffalo based third party logistics provider has been recognized for the second straight year for its considerable growth by Business First of Buffalo and ranked #6 in this years Fast Track 50 of Western New York. The Business First Fast Track 50 is a special... - July 03, 2008 - Logistic Dynamics, Inc.
Davies Turner Uses Blue Sky Thinking on Green Initiatives in New Bristol Development
Davies Turner’s determination that its operations are environmentally responsible is clearly demonstrated at the freight forwarder’s recently completed multi-million pound regional distribution centre at Avonmouth, Bristol. - June 11, 2008 - Davies Turner & Co.Ltd
Davies Turner is All Ship-Shape at Bristol - New Regional Distribution Centre Now Open for Business
Independent freight forwarder Davies Turner has completed the construction of a multi-million pound expansion to its freight and logistics hub at Avonmouth, Bristol enabling it to offer complete supply chain solutions from the site. The total area of the company’s warehousing at Avonmouth... - May 21, 2008 - Davies Turner & Co.Ltd
Motorcycle Towing Service Provider Locator Service Launches
towPartners today announced that it has expanded the offering of its popular towSearch service (www.towsearch.com) by adding a motorcyclist specific site, www.motorcycleroadside.com, that uses the highly developed towPartners database system. This service will allow motorcyclists to locate service providers when they have a roadside disablement. A mobile version of the application simplifies the search process for those on cell phones and other mobile devices. - May 15, 2008 - towPartners
Davies Turner Ireland Strengthens Senior Management
The Davies Turner Group has strengthened the senior management of its subsidiary in Ireland with the appointment of Ciaran Delmar and John Culligan as Joint Managing Directors of Davies Turner Ireland Ltd. Both have joined from senior roles with Expeditors Ireland. - May 08, 2008 - Davies Turner & Co.Ltd
BudgetGPS Service Used to Recover $400,000 Truck After Theft
On April 20, 2008, a 2007 Kenworth truck equipped with a Century XP-850 wrecker body was stolen from the Marlow’s Fuel Center truck stop in Dallas, TX. The truck was owned by Walnut Hill Wrecker, a WHW Towing Companies Company, based in Dallas, TX. The tow truck operator was off-shift and... - May 06, 2008 - towPartners
towSearch.com Adds 10,000 Towing Providers and Sees a 29% Increase in Searches
towPartners® today announced that it has added more than 10,000 service providers to its free towing and road service provider locator tool in the first quarter of 2008. The addition of so many service providers comes alongside a new interface for users which improves search results. In the... - April 03, 2008 - towPartners
BudgetGPS Brings GPS to Associations
BudgetGPS announced today that it is launching a new associations program geared toward providing discounts on BudgetGPS service to associations interested in finding benefits for their members. This new program is available to industry associations in trucking, courier, pest control, HVAC,... - April 02, 2008 - towPartners
Davies Turner Air Cargo First with Full AEO Status
Effective April 5th 2008, Davies Turner Air Cargo will become one of Europe’s first Authorised Economic Operators (AEOs). - March 30, 2008 - Davies Turner & Co.Ltd
LDI Raises Over $1,000 for The American Cancer Society
Logistic Dynamics, Inc. (LDI) a Buffalo, NY, based third party logistics provider recently participated in The American Cancer Society's 2008 Daffodil Days of the Western NY Region. In its first year, LDI was able to raise over $1,000 making it the #1 company for the WNY region. "We are very... - March 22, 2008 - Logistic Dynamics, Inc.
U-Freight Targets Aviation and Aerospace Logistics
U-Freight, the leading international freight forwarder, is seeking to build its presence in the market for the provision of supply chain management services to manufacturers, operators and vendors involved in the global aviation and aerospace industry. - March 19, 2008 - UFreight
BudgetGPS Announces Low Cost GPS Tracking Solution - BudgetGPS.com
BudgetGPS announced today that it has released version 2.0 of its primary operating system as well as a new, more aggressive pricing structure designed to allow smaller fleets access to truck mounted GPS services. - March 18, 2008 - towPartners
Arrow on Target for Shippers in Russia and the CIS
Advance International is increasing its involvement in the provision of intermodal railfreight services, which commenced a few years ago when it established the Advantage Express Service to offer an intermodal rail operation between Almaty in Kazakhstan and the Georgian port of Poti. - March 15, 2008 - Advance International Transport
Davies Turner Enhances Moroccan Transport Services with Extra Fleet of Krone Garment Trailers
Davies Turner [www.daviesturner.co.uk] is making a major investment in additional high specification hanging garment trailers to serve the growing trade in garments moving between Morocco and the UK. The latest investment comes just six months after the UK’s leading independent freight forwarder and international transport company decided to step up the company’s investment in this market after other large trailer operators cut back services. - March 12, 2008 - Davies Turner & Co.Ltd
Famous Pacific Shipping Names Oliver Ward as Group Executive Director
The Famous Pacific Shipping Group, the fast expanding Asia-based NVOCC and freight services supplier, has appointed industry professional Oliver Ward to the newly-created post of Group Executive Director. Mr Ward will commence his role with immediate effect. - March 05, 2008 - Famous Pacific Shipping
Movers.com Hits Canada Moving Industry with Canada.Movers.com
After 8 years of dedicated service of relocating Millions of American Families, Movers.com reached another milestone by entering into the Canadian Relocation Market. - February 22, 2008 - Movers.com
U-Ocean Adds Oceanfreight Consolidation Services from USA to Markets in South-East Asia
U-Ocean, the oceanfreight arm of global freight forwarder the U-Freight Group (www.ufreight.com) has launched scheduled oceanfreight export consolidation services from New York and Los Angeles to Hong Kong. These weekly operations serve markets throughout South East Asia via transhipment through the Hong Kong gateway. - February 06, 2008 - UFreight
Freight Broker Hits Top 10 on Search Engines
Logistic Dynamics, Inc. (LDI) a Buffalo, NY, based third party logistics provider launched its newly designed website www.logisticdynamics.com on Thursday, November 29, 2007. Since the launch leading search engines including www.google.com, www.yahoo.com, www.ask.com and www.search.com all have the... - January 30, 2008 - Logistic Dynamics, Inc.
Growing Logistics Business Drives Davies Turner Investment in Narrow Aisle Racking at Cumbernauld
Davies Turner has made a major investment in narrow aisle racking at its Scottish freight hub in Cumbernauld as more shippers in Scotland choose the UK’s leading independent freight forwarder to provide logistics solutions. - January 30, 2008 - Davies Turner & Co.Ltd
Movers.com, Inc. Has Merged with NGA Group, Inc.
With an aim to provide better Moving Solutions, Movers.com, Inc., a California Corporation has merged with NGA Group, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation, hoping that the domain name and its popularity would increase the ability of NGA to expand its areas of business. - January 27, 2008 - Movers.com
Famous Pacific Shipping Building Brisbane Presence
Moving into a new one-stop-shop for importers and exporters using the Port of Brisbane has enabled one of Famous Pacific Shipping’s associates in Australia to build on the portfolio of services offered to shippers. - January 27, 2008 - Famous Pacific Shipping
Launch of Movers.com Blog - A Complete Moving Blog
After about a decade of working in the relocation industry Movers.com team has launched its first blog. The blog located at http://blog.movers.com is the first of its kind in the moving industry. - January 23, 2008 - Movers.com
Famous Pacific Shipping Provides Full Logistics Services for New Power Plant in Sri Lanka
FPS Sri Lanka has been appointed by West Coast Power Ltd, a subsidiary of Lanka Transformers/Sri Lanka Electricity Board Group, the largest power supplier in Sri Lanka, to handle the majority of the freight logistics services required during the construction of a new 300MW combined cycle power plant located at Kerawalapitiya in Sri Lanka. - January 18, 2008 - Famous Pacific Shipping
U-Freight Gains Security Accreditation for Logistics Warehouse in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, U-Freight (www.ufreight.com) has achieved TAPA security accreditation for its recently opened full-service logistics hub at Yuen Long, which is situated close to the 4th border crossing between the Special Administrative Region and the People’s Republic of China. - January 17, 2008 - UFreight
towSearch.com Offers More Detailed Search Capabilities for Trucking Fleet Managers
towPartners® today announced that its free towing and road service provider locator tool, towSearch, has been updated to significantly improve its offering to fleet clients. These updates include search capability for extra heavy duty towing and incident management. In addition, towPartners... - January 08, 2008 - towPartners
Advance International’s Excellent Results on Rail Container Service
Freight forwarder, Advance International is celebrating excellent results on its ‘Advantage Express Service’ between Almaty in Kazakhstan and Poti in Georgia as it passes a significant traffic milestone. - December 05, 2007 - Advance International Transport
U-Freight Adds Security Accreditation
International freight forwarding and logistics group, U-Freight, has further reinforced its commitment to the provision of secure storage and warehousing with the certification of its Shanghai logistics hub to TAPA FSR 2007 (Transported Asset Protection Association, Freight Security Requirements, 2007 Revision), Warehouse Classification A. - November 24, 2007 - UFreight
The Launch of Moving Tools & Gadgets, Syndicated with Google by Movers.com
In keeping with the demands for technologically advanced web gadgets, which enable the users to calculate and estimate various itsy-bitsy details of their move, Movers.com has recently launched a series of Moving gadgets. - November 09, 2007 - Movers.com
Famous Pacific Shipping Conference Focuses on Changing Face of Global Freight Industry
Famous Pacific Shipping, the fast expanding Asia-based NVOCC and freight services supplier, is all set for its 2007 Annual General Meeting and Conference which will take place in Mauritius between 21st and 24th October. - October 20, 2007 - Famous Pacific Shipping
Jerr-Dan to Provide towPartners Memberships to the Towing Industry for 2008
Jerr-Dan Corporation and towPartners are pleased to announce that Jerr-Dan will be providing towPartners memberships to the entire towing and recovery industry in 2008. The strategic partnership between Jerr-Dan and towPartners was formed in 2006 and continues to develop into a powerful benefits addition to the towPartners program. This provision of memberships by Jerr-Dan Corporation demonstrates their tremendous commitment to our industry and to the companies who serve the motoring public. - October 15, 2007 - towPartners
Famous Pacific Shipping Adds Household Removal Services in Indonesia
In Indonesia, the Famous Pacific Shipping Group (FPS) has launched a new subsidiary dedicated to household removal and personal relocation services. - October 13, 2007 - Famous Pacific Shipping
Biggest Not Always Best, Says Davies Turner, as M&A Frenzy Continues in the UK Logistics Industry
Significant structural changes in the UK logistics industry are seeing mergers and acquisitions of key players hit the headlines. - October 06, 2007 - Davies Turner & Co.Ltd
towSearch.com Reaches New Milestones with Towing Discount Program
towPartners® today announced that it’s towing and road service provider locator tool, towSearch, now has over 22,000 listed companies across the United States and that over 500 of these member companies have already opted-in to offer a 10% discount to users of towSearch.com. The system is being heavily used by transportation fleet managers, individuals and even motor clubs as vehicles need service across the United States. - October 02, 2007 - towPartners
New Name, Same Great Service and Dependability... The Packaging Store Repackages Itself as Boston Pack and Ship
After more than two decades as a strategic partner to many area movers, known particularly for their expertise in packing and shipping small loads and delicate items, Joe Fell and Bill Yankee, owners of The Packaging Store in Braintree, thought the days of being referred to as the “new... - September 30, 2007 - Boston Pack and Ship
Travis Perkins Deploys SmartDrive in the UK
SmartDrive Systems Inc™, a leader in vehicle safety measuring and management services, is pleased to announce today that Northampton-based (UK) Travis Perkins PLC, a leading supplier to the UK building and construction industry, has equipped a portion of its UK fleet with the SmartDrive... - September 14, 2007 - Smartdrive
Michelin’s Laurens Proving Grounds Announces Website
Introduction of internet site - August 25, 2007 - Michelin Laurens Proving Grounds
Davies Turner Will Cancel FSA Regulation Following UK Government’s About Turn on Marine Insurance
Davies Turner, the UK’s leading independent freight forwarder, has welcomed the UK Government’s confirmation that freight forwarders have been given an exemption from the scope of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) insurance regulations and will no longer need to be registered with the FSA to offer marine or cargo insurance direct to customers. - August 11, 2007 - Davies Turner & Co.Ltd
U-Freight Opens Third Dedicated Logistics Warehouse in Hong Kong
U-Freight – www.ufreight.com - the Asia-based freight services group, has strengthened its operations in Hong Kong with the opening of a further dedicated, full-service logistics facility. - August 08, 2007 - UFreight
Aerotrim Wins £3.9M Order from UK MoD
Aerotrim (Warminster) Ltd has secured a £3.9M order for manufacturing insulation lining for MoD tentage used in field operations. - August 04, 2007 - Aerotrim Group
iBagit, One of the First On-Demand Fulfillment Service Providers for Small Businesses, Goes Live
iBagit,Inc. (www.ibagit.com) one of the first on-demand warehousing, packaging, shipping and customer support service providers for small to medium size businesses went live today online. Now small and medium size businesses get integrated warehousing, packaging, shipping and customer support... - August 03, 2007 - iBagit, Inc.
towSearch.com Offers Discounted Towing to Consumers and Fleets in Latest Version
towPartners today announced that its towing and road service provider locator tool, towSearch, has been enhanced: 1. Users of the towSearch system can now save 10% on towing and road service with many towSearch service providers; 2. The entire towPartners network is now eligible to be listed on towSearch.com. Of the 36,000 towPartners members, approximately 20,000 service providers are currently listed. - August 01, 2007 - towPartners
Reynolds (UK) Entire Fleet Deploys SmartDrive™
SmartDrive Systems Inc™, a leader in driver risk management systems and services, is pleased to announce today that Waltham Cross based Reynolds Catering Supplies Limited, one of the UK’s leading independent distributors of fresh produce and chilled goods, will equip its entire UK fleet... - July 27, 2007 - Smartdrive
Davies Turner Channels Investment Into Bristol
Independent freight forwarder, Davies Turner - www.daviesturner.co.uk - has started to build a multi-million pound expansion to its existing freight and logistics hub in Bristol. - July 18, 2007 - Davies Turner & Co.Ltd
Rich Trucking & Logistics Launches Get Back to Work Program for Felons
Rich Trucking & Logistics launches Get Back To Work program for felons and ex-cons. The second chance program offered by the company's CEO, Meca Rich, aims to provide a source of work for inner city communities across the nation. - July 17, 2007 - Rich Trucking & Logistics
Nation’s 13th Largest Fleet, Salvation Army, Deploys SmartDrive™
SmartDrive Systems Inc™, a leader in driver risk management systems and services, is pleased to announce today that the Salvation Army - which features the 13th largest fleet of vehicles in the country - is deploying the SmartDrive system throughout its west coast fleet. Salvation Army has... - July 10, 2007 - Smartdrive
Advance Helps Plug Gap in Supply of Containers for Out-Of-Gauge Cargoes
In China, Advance International Transport, the leading freight forwarder and project shipping specialist, is taking delivery of 2400 new 40’ Open Top and Flat Rack containers for over-dimensional and out-of-gauge cargoes. The first 200 units of the order, which are being leased from Triton... - July 06, 2007 - Advance International Transport
U-Freight Restructures North America Operations
U-Freight, the freight forwarding and logistics services group, is restructuring its organization in North America under a five-strong executive management team. - July 04, 2007 - UFreight