IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions

Transportation

• PITT OHIO introduced a new LTL Express Lane to six key cross-border cities in Texas. Its Cincinnati terminal consolidates the freight, and routes shipments to Laredo, El Paso, McAllen, Brownsville, Eagle Pass, and Del Rio.

• Yang Ming launched the India Ocean Express service (ISE), providing a direct connection from West India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan to the North Europe region. The ISE service offers direct connections and transshipment solutions across the Indian Subcontinent, with the service routed via Cape of Good Hope.

• Turkon Line, a container transportation company in Turkey, launched the India service, which offers fast transit from Turkey to India via the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. The service calls the West India ports of Nhava Sheva and Mundra.

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Technology

↑ Ambi Robotics launched AmbiStack, a robotic system that stacks items onto pallets or into containers in warehouses. Featuring AI technology which enables it to stack items without prior knowledge of size, position, or appearance, AmbiStack can build inbound pallets from floor-loaded trucks, assemble outbound pallets for retail distribution, or stack walled containers for parcel transport.

• HUBTEX now offers customers remote access to live data on their forklift fleet. Available as an option on all HUBTEX models, the connectivity solutions provide an overview of vehicle and fleet data, letting users control physical access and log instances of damage.

• To combat freight fraud, Overhaul, a supply chain risk management and intelligence solutions provider, launched FraudWatch, which is designed to expose bad actors and protect shipments. Overhaul FraudWatch provides real-time data and alerts, so shippers and logistics providers can detect threats like fictitious pick-ups and double brokering and take immediate action.

• Netstock unveiled AI Pack, a series of AI-powered capabilities that enables SMBs to optimize inventory management. Providing real-time recommendations and issue resolution, AI Pack lets users analyze and simplify complex data about existing and forecasted inventory.

• FourKites launched Intelligent Control Tower™ which leverages the company’s real-time visibility network and deploys a system of supply chain agents. Powered by a new digital workforce of AI agents, Intelligent Control Tower can take autonomous action across supply chain workflows, in addition to surfacing insights, assessing risk, and making prescriptive recommendations.

← Inventory management solutions provider RGIS launched U Count, a universal self-scan software. Letting retailers access the company’s inventory tools directly from their own devices, the U Count SaaS technology works with Android or iOS handheld devices. RGIS also offers the option of leasing handheld devices and its Figure Laser (pictured), which provides precise counting and is compatible with mobile devices.

• fabric, an order orchestration solution provider, announced a reimagined order management system enhanced by artificial intelligence, including a new AI agent. fabric AI Order Cloud provides retailers with a centralized system for managing their orders, inventory, and fulfillment across multiple channels, delivering real-time data analysis, trend detection, and intelligent recommendations.

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Products

→ PAC Machinery introduced its Rollbag® R985 Tabletop Automatic Bagger, a compact auto bagger designed for sustainable bagging with both paper and poly materials. The automatic bagging system uses the company’s sustainable poly bags that can be made with up to 100% recycled resins and Fiberflex® curbside recyclable paper packaging.

• SmartTape from Trackonomy is a disposable tape that provides end-to-end supply chain monitoring. Able to integrate into ERP systems, SmartTape attaches onto any parcel, pallet, container, machine, or physical asset. The cellular-enabled tape can monitor key conditions such as temperature, humidity, shock, and pressure.

• The Eyeonic Trace scanner from SiLC Technologies can ensure precise measurement and quality control for boxes moving along a conveyor belt, even for challenging items like transparent, shrink-wrapped cases of water. It can determine height, width, and length, enabling automated robots to palletize or prepare packages for shipping while detecting damaged goods in real time.

↑Polar King Mobile’s new Avalanche Series walk-in refrigerated and freezer trailers offer ground-level loading system technology. Utilizing a Sure-Trac loading system, the PKM68A, PKM612A, and PKM616A Avalanche Series trailers offer an efficient way to load and unload refrigerated and frozen cargo.

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Services

↑ Providing companies with a Utah crude-by-rail connection, Savage is developing a new transload terminal to transport Uinta Basin crude oil from wellheads to refinery markets across North America. The terminal, located near Wellington in Carbon County, Utah, will unload Uinta Basin yellow and black wax crude from tanker trucks into two heated tanks. The crude will then be loaded into unit trains of insulated rail cars, via two rail loops, for delivery to end-market destinations.

• The Port of Savannah received four new electric ship-to-shore cranes in January, bringing Ocean Terminal’s fleet to eight Super Post Panamax cranes, all designed by Finland-based Konecranes. The eight ship-to-shore cranes at Ocean Terminal have the capability to service two vessels simultaneously.

• SeaCube partnered with Greensee to launch sustainable solutions in the refrigerated transport sector. The collaboration introduces SeaCube’s Green and Net-Zero Reefer Leases, powered by Greensee’s AI-driven CO2 emissions reporting technology.

• Logistics, packaging, and crating services provider TransPak, opened a 300,000-square-foot campus in Manor, Texas, just outside Austin, to serve semiconductor companies. It features temperature-controlled environments; rigging, warehousing, packaging, logistics, and crating capabilities; and a mezzanine outlook for a bird’s-eye view of operations.

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