IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions

Transportation

• HOYER Group put four fully electric trucks into regular operations in Switzerland, cutting energy consumption by about two-thirds compared to diesel. The trucks charge overnight using an intelligent energy management system tied to the next day’s deployment schedule.

• Alaska Airlines signed long-term leases for four additional Boeing 737-800 BCF freighters, growing its dedicated cargo fleet. The planes will be dedicated to Alaska and Hawaii and enter service in early 2027. They are projected to generate $150 million in new annual profit.

↑ MSC’s Empire Service made its inaugural call at Port Everglades in July 2026, restoring the Florida port’s direct connection to Asia. The route calls Shanghai, Ningbo, Busan, and Panama before terminating at Port Everglades with vessels carrying up to 8,800 TEUs.

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Services

• Basic 3PL expanded its bulk storage and replenishment infrastructure for brands excluded by Amazon Warehousing and Distribution’s new eligibility limits, which ban products over 18 x 14 x 8 inches or 20 pounds.

• UPS launched new digital tools for small and medium-size businesses, including a pickup dashboard with real-time notifications and a redesigned mobile app integrated with more than 5,500 UPS Store locations for RFID-enabled shipment tracking.

↑ Dematic opened a new Solutions Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, representing a $50 million investment. The facility lets customers test integrated automation solutions like autonomous mobile robots and robotic piece picking in a simulated warehouse environment.

• Chapman Freeborn arranged an ACMI agreement to help Air Zimbabwe resume direct service between Harare and London Gatwick, a route dormant for more than 14 years. Spanish carrier Plus Ultra will operate three weekly frequencies under Air Zimbabwe’s flight code.

• Turkish Cargo selected Lödige Industries to automate SMARTIST 2.0, an expansion of its cargo hub at Istanbul Airport. The project will more than double annual handling capacity and is anchored by a six-level high-bay storage system with 1,562 ULD positions.

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Products

↑ Identiv expanded its ID-Tiny portfolio to eight ultra-miniaturized HF/NFC tags, some smaller than a pencil eraser. The tags are for items too small for conventional RFID, including jewelry, surgical instruments, and pharmaceutical vials.

↑ Jungheinrich launched the EFG 2/2i and 3/3i series, a new generation of electric counterbalanced forklifts for loads up to two metric tons. The redesigned models offer 15% better space efficiency and 65% fewer blind spots when reversing.

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Technology

• Treefera launched two AI-powered products that deliver field-level crop data in near real time: Agricultural Risk Intelligence for seed companies and Agricultural Credit Risk Intelligence for lenders monitoring farm-level risk.

• OOCL refreshed its cargo tracking results page with a visual shipment timeline, reorganized milestone display, and clearer container activity data. Shippers can search by bill of lading, booking number, or container number.

• Cleo added three AI capabilities to its supply chain orchestration platform, including automated anomaly detection, a conversational interface for natural-language supply chain queries, and extended order visibility into 3PL fulfillment workflows.

• Fulfillment IQ announced a strategic partnership with Prologis to develop AI and automation solutions for warehouse operations. The partnership gives Fulfillment IQ access to Prologis’s 1.3-billion-square-foot portfolio across 20 countries and 6,500 customers.

• IntelliAM AI launched an industrial intelligence platform developed with SKF that uses agentic AI to recommend or trigger operational actions on the factory floor. Live trials at a Müller dairy site showed a 215% improvement in mean time between failures over 12 months.

• JAGGAER integrated virtual card payments from Conferma into its procurement platform, letting organizations generate and embed virtual cards directly into approved purchase orders to pay suppliers at the point of order.

→ BeyondTrucks integrated with VLC’s driver qualification and equipment compliance tools so dispatchers can check driver and vehicle status before assigning a load, reducing liability exposure from outdated safety records.

• Kenco deployed six AI agents across its 3PL operations in three months using DeepFabric’s platform, with 20 agents planned across the enterprise over the next year. The agents handle structured operational workflows, including bids, audits, exceptions, and client service tasks.

• KIBO Commerce released KIBO AI, an agentic layer spanning commerce and order management on a unified data model. Operations teams can optimize fulfillment settings in plain language. The platform supports multiple AI models without vendor lock-in.

• LogiNext launched Deviation Intelligence, a fleet monitoring capability that automatically detects exceptions, including GPS outages, temperature fluctuations, and unsafe driving behavior. Teams can use timestamped records for faster compliance reporting.

• Rockwell Automation integrated its Plex Quality Management System with FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI, bringing AI-powered visual inspection into QMS workflows for defect detection and traceability.

• project44 launched Mo, an AI analyst built into its platform. Mo answers operational questions using a customer’s own shipment data, carrier history, and business rules. In internal testing, Mo answered questions that took Claude 18 minutes in about 2.5.

• Reelables partnered with Hubble Network to extend tracking coverage for its printable smart labels beyond owned facilities. Hubble’s Bluetooth gateway network keeps labels visible throughout transit without GPS hardware, SIM cards, or data plans

• WindoWE launched a pricing intelligence platform that gives shippers benchmarking data for 3PL warehousing services, including storage, pallet handling, and pick fees, by combining anonymized rate data with regional labor costs and industrial real estate pricing.

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