IN BRIEF: The Latest Supply Chain, Freight Tech Updates
Yang Ming’s YM Willpower completed its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering in Singapore. Now serving Yang Ming’s Far East – Mediterranean MD2 service, YM Willpower is the first vessel in the company’s 2026 roll-out of newly built 15,500-TEU class container vessels primarily fueled by LNG.
Transportation
• The CMA CGM Group enhanced its Eagle Express 1 service, boosting Japan’s connectivity to the U.S. West Coast. This U.S. Flag service with weekly departures introduces additional Japan port calls, namely Kobe, Nagoya, and Yokohama. Cargo from these three ports arrives in Los Angeles in 16 days, 14 days, and 12 days, respectively.
• DHL Global Forwarding expanded its dedicated air capacity between Asia and Europe with the launch of weekly flights connecting logistics hubs Shanghai-Leipzig and Liège-Hong Kong. The offering strengthens DHL’s cross‑business collaboration between DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Express.
↑ Lufthansa Cargo’s new summer schedule started in March 2026, with a total of 87 flights per week to up to 35 destinations worldwide to become available for customers in the coming months. For example, the transpacific route from Ho Chi Minh City via Shanghai to Los Angeles will be increased by one more frequency to two rotations per week. The American market will be connected to Frankfurt with 33 connections per week and 11 destinations in North America.
Services
• Ecommerce logistics provider Cainiao is building robotic warehouses in 2026 to expand fulfillment and delivery capabilities for cross-border ecommerce platforms and merchants. Featuring its warehouse robots and AI-powered scheduling system, the automated facilities are planned for markets such as the United States, Hong Kong, China, the Netherlands, Spain, France, and Germany.
• LOGISTEC, a marine and logistics service provider, added two harbor cranes at the Port of Houston’s Care Terminal. The terminal is operated by Gulf Stream Marine, part of the LOGISTEC network, and provides stevedoring and terminal services for a diverse mix of cargo. The new cranes enhance Care Terminal’s capabilities for heavy-lift, project, and specialized cargo.
↑ The Port of Nevada, a 224-acre inland port operation and intermodal ramp in Northern Nevada, completed construction progress on its new 238,680-square-foot industrial building. Owned and developed by Industrial Realty Group, the building is expected to be ready for occupancy in fall 2026 and features 25 loading docks, four drive-in ramps, and 104 trailer stalls.
• Warp expanded the availability of its same-day LTL service, designed for transportation teams responsible for freight shipments when traditional LTL networks are closed. The service allows teams to dispatch a cargo van or box truck within one hour of booking for same-day pickup and delivery of palletized freight locally, even after late cutoffs.
↑ Dayton Freight Lines opened a new service center in Collinsville, Illinois, at the I‑255 and I‑55 interchange. Located on more than 100 acres, the facility has 100 doors and includes a heated dock.
Products
← The Guardian bin from Attabotics, a provider of 3D robotic cube storage solutions for goods-to-person fulfillment operations, is a formed metal bin engineered to help mitigate fire risks without compromising the throughput of automated storage and retrieval systems. The bin replaces combustible plastics with inert galvanized steel and can contain leaked liquid to limit spills.
→ The Octopus Prestige Automatic Rotary Ring Stretch Wrapper from Signode is a fully automatic pallet wrapping system designed for high-volume operations that seek speed, reliability, and consistency in wrapping. The system uses smart motion algorithms to manage the wrapping process.
Technology
← The Mobile Robot Platform 1600 (MR P1600) from MAXOLUTION, a SEW-EURODRIVE company, is a standardized, modular mobile robot platform offering contactless charging. Designed to move heavy loads, the MR P1600 can minimize downtime during charging and reduce integration complexity.
• Hyster introduced a pedestrian detection event dashboard, which uses data from its Hyster Reaction pedestrian awareness camera system to track pedestrian presence near a lift truck in both indoor and outdoor applications.
• Rygen Technologies, developer of the Corsair transportation management system (TMS), teamed up with Conduit Software, a dock and yard management system. The partnership embeds Conduit’s dock workflows and appointment-related milestones directly into the Corsair TMS, connecting transportation execution with dock operations.
• DAT Freight & Analytics’ Convoy Platform is now free to DAT and BrokerPro TMS customers. The Convoy Platform gives BrokerPro users access to thousands of qualified carriers and provides fraud prevention technology.
• Powered by Veho’s new AI orchestration platform, FlexSave enables ecommerce shippers to reduce their shipping spend by replacing day-certain delivery dates with slightly broader delivery windows.
• Banyan Technology launched its new RFP tool to help shippers and 3PLs simplify carrier sourcing and make smarter freight procurement decisions across truckload, LTL, and parcel.
• SC Codeworks released Codeworks Enterprise 4.0, its WMS platform which integrates AI-powered assistant CODI. It enables users to interact with their warehouse in plain language, surfacing insights such as order status, inventory constraints, and operational bottlenecks.
• Chain.io now offers AI Checks, a shipment monitoring tool that finds problems hiding in large spreadsheets and continues tracking them as data changes over days, weeks, and months. AI Checks creates a shipment inbox from uploaded spreadsheets. Users write verification rules in plain English—such as “Flag any shipment going to Brazil” or “Verify all HTS codes are valid”—and the system auto-applies them.
• Polaris Transportation Group now offers a carbon calculator feature on its online customer portal. The calculator generates carbon emissions based on shippers’ actual freight route and weight within their required date range, offering accurate, shipment-specific results rather than estimates.
↑ Corvus Robotics launched Corvus One for Cold Chain, an autonomous inventory management system engineered to operate in freezer environments ranging from minus-20° Fahrenheit to ambient temperatures. Designed to withstand extreme cold, airflow, frost, and condensation, the system delivers inventory cycle counts without human intervention.