IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions

Transportation

• LTL carrier Roadrunner added 278 new lanes to its Smart Network. One-third of the new routes are more than 1,000 miles long, enhancing its long-haul transportation services across the United States and Canada.

• Jayud Global Logistics Limited, a solutions provider specializing in cross-border logistics, launched a chartered air cargo service connecting Fuzhou, China and Jakarta, Indonesia. Designed to handle products containing lithium-ion batteries and support the ecommerce market in Southeast Asia, the service operates three flights weekly using a Boeing 737-800 aircraft with a cargo capacity of up to 18 tons per flight.

• The CMA CGM Group welcomed its first Indian flagged containership CMA CGM Vitoria at Nhava Sheva Free Port Terminal, India, in April 2025. CMA CGM Vitoria serves India on CMA CGM Group’s BIGEX network, which offers direct links between India, the Gulf, and the Red Sea, performing weekly calls from Nhava Sheva and Mundra.

• Sterling Transportation, an expedited LTL services provider, added New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Lafayette, Louisiana, to its national network. It now offers direct West Coast service to New York City and Philadelphia.

• Crowley expanded its ocean shipping capabilities in the U.S., Central American, and Caribbean markets. Copán, the second vessel in Crowley’s Avance Class fleet of LNG-powered containerships, began commercial operations from the Port of Jacksonville, Florida. Designed to transport perishable goods, retail products, apparel, and breakbulk cargo, the 1,400-TEU Avance Class ships can serve diverse container sizes for dry cargo and feature capacity for 300 refrigerated containers.

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Technology

↑ Yale Lift Truck Technologies introduced a new pedestrian awareness camera solution, the latest addition to the Yale Reliant portfolio of active alert and assist technologies, which are designed to support warehouse safety. The camera system can identify pedestrians at ranges up to 16 feet through a 110-degree field of view and provides automatic alerts to the lift truck operator.

• PortPro launched AI Agents for the drayage industry. The agents are powered by artificial intelligence and can understand user intent, process data, and make decisions dynamically. Built directly into PortPro’s transportation management system, the AI agents are designed to help companies reduce repetitive work, and respond faster.

• AI-powered mobile data capture technology provider Anyline debuted Barcode:AI for high-speed barcode scanning for industries such as retail, manufacturing, automotive, and pharmaceutical. Able to make 33 scans per second and process up to 25 codes simultaneously, Barcode:AI combines real-time augmented reality with AI for anomaly detection and automated data validation.

• Export Genius, a global trade data platform, upgraded its dashboard to help exporters and importers make trade decisions. New features include global search, a unified view of the user’s subscribed countries; a market summary showing trade details alongside rising demand and active markets; and custom sorting, which lets users arrange trade data by HS code, country, date, importer, or supplier.

• Resilinc launched its Agentic AI platform, an autonomous intelligence solution designed to help global enterprises predict, mitigate, and respond to disruptions across complex supply chains. The platform includes disruption management agents (global disruption monitoring that provides real-time risk detection and contextualizes the impact), human rights and compliance agents (which track forced labor exposure), and tariffs and trade compliance agents (which scan supplier networks against tariff regulations, anti-dumping rules, and country-of-origin constraints).

• Order.co, a B2B ecommerce platform, upgraded its AI sourcing capabilities to help businesses respond quickly to potential tariff impacts, manage projected rising costs, and avoid supply chain disruptions. The AI analyzes a database with price points across thousands of vendors to deliver options during the checkout process.

• Identiv, a provider of RFID- and BLE-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, partnered with Tag-N-Trac, an IoT platform provider for real-time supply chain visibility and traceability, to provide cold chain tracking and compliance solutions. The partnership will initially focus on developing specialized IoT solutions for cold chain tracking within the pharmaceutical supply chain.

• Last-mile solutions provider Bringg launched its newest platform extension, Dynamic Delivery Slots, which lets shippers offer precise delivery windows during ecommerce checkout. The extension evaluates both internal and external variables, including real-time capacity, order requirements, driver compliance attributes, customer profiles, service area, service level agreements, and blackouts.

• To help companies identify and mitigate forced labor risks within their supply chains, TradeBeyond integrated with Kharon, a global risk analytics platform. Kharon’s dataset of forced labor-linked entities and networks is now embedded into TradeBeyond’s platform.

• Dun & Bradstreet introduced a complimentary supply chain evaluation to help companies understand potential risks and opportunities within their supply chains. It provides a view of expenses resulting from planned or proposed tariffs on a business’s supply chain using Dun & Bradstreet’s proprietary data.

• Xeneta launched an index-linked contract (ILC) simulator to help shippers navigate ocean freight container market volatility and increase procurement efficiency. The new ILC Simulator—now available in the Xeneta platform—allows shippers to compare traditional fixed-rate contracts with index-linked contracts using sample corridor data or their own historical ocean container freight rates.

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Products

↑ Carrier Transicold’s new Vector 8200, an all-electric, engineless refrigeration unit with single and multi-temperature capabilities, is designed for trailers used as stationary cold storage. The Vector 8200 uses electricity from the grid or other external power sources. Its TRU-Demand E-Drive energy management system monitors the power draw and adjusts to changes in a facility’s electrical supply.

• Industrial storage solutions provider AR Racking launched a teardrop racking storage systems range. Widely used in the United States, a teardrop system features teardrop-shaped holes in the frames that enable rapid assembly without screws. By introducing a teardrop product range, AR Racking adds a bolt-free and reconfigurable storage solution to its offerings.

• Nordock introduced the ELEMENT Mechanical Dock Leveler (Model NMF)—a flip-lip leveler solution to support loading dock operations. Facilitating efficient loading and unloading, the dock leveler has a flip-lip design (the lip flips up automatically when the leveler is activated) and four-point leveling tabs (tabs on all four corners that ensure precise installation).

• PAC Machinery now offers Barcode Blocking Bags designed to solve a common challenge in fulfillment packaging: barcode scanning errors that can occur when multiple items are packed together in standard polyethylene bags. Compatible with automated bagging machines and high-speed side sealers, these specialized bags help prevent scanning errors and can improve scan accuracy.

• Hyster now offers its Hyster Tracker telemetry solution as a standard feature on electric and internal combustion engine counterbalanced lift trucks and select stand-up lift trucks. The wireless monitoring technology allows operations to schedule and track preventive maintenance and better understand their total cost of fleet operations. Seven years of wireless communication service are included at no additional charge.

• The Tive Security Seal is an intelligent, digital tamper detection device that provides cargo and asset protection. The result of a partnership between logistics visibility technology provider Tive and TydenBrooks, a provider of security seals and solutions, the Tive Security Seal locks containers or trailer doors while adding a layer of digital protection. Integrated with Tive’s Solo 5G trackers and cloud platform, the security seal provides real-time tamper alerts.

↑ Bobcat’s B20T-7 is a three-wheel electric counterbalance forklift, which is available with cushion/pneumatic tires. With a small chassis size that lets it fit into tight spaces, the electric forklift is designed to boost warehouse productivity and enhance visibility for the operator.

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Services

↑ South Carolina Ports completed a $55-million expansion at Inland Port Greer, strengthening its intermodal capabilities and connectivity from the Port of Charleston to inland markets. Upgrades include an expanded container yard to increase cargo capacity by 50%, 9,000 feet of additional rail to handle longer trains, an expanded chassis lot, and new terminal operations and maintenance buildings.

• RK Logistics Group expanded its customs bonded warehouse and foreign trade zone (FTZ) capacity in California, Texas, Arizona, New York, and Michigan. The expanded FTZs allow businesses to defer, reduce, or eliminate customs duties, streamline operations, and optimize cash flow.

↑ Interstate Cold Storage’s Columbus II facility achieved Safe Quality Food (SQF) certification, a food safety standard administered by the Safe Quality Food Institute, signifying the facility meets benchmarks for food safety and quality management systems for food storage and distribution operations. The facility, one of the provider’s five locations across Ohio and Indiana, offers warehousing solutions, temporary storage, quick-freezing, space-guarantee programs, and rail access.

• Echo Global Logistics selected Wabash’s Trailers as a Service (TaaS) to grow its drop trailer program and enhance service offerings for shippers and carriers nationwide. With this new partnership, Echo expands its customized services in drop trailer freight.

↑ Georgia Ports’ Ocean Terminal in Savannah expanded from two container ship calls per week to four ships per week effective May 1. Ocean Terminal also provides a lay berth option which reduces time for container ships arriving at the port and improves supply chain velocity.

• International Logistics Solutions (ILS) opened a new, state-of-the-art 115,000-square-foot warehouse in Tucson, Arizona. Located close to U.S. and Mexico manufacturing hubs as well as air, rail, and ground transportation services in Sonora, the Tucson facility facilitates the import and export of parts and finished goods across the border for its clients, particularly in the automotive and aerospace sectors.

↑ DHL Express relocated its service center to a new, state-of-the-art facility in McCook, Illinois. The 100,000-square-foot center—more than twice the size of the previous location—processes international and domestic shipments, utilizing automated shoe sorters, singulation, accumulation slides, and robotic flyer sortation.

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