IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions
Silk Way West Airlines welcomed its third Boeing 777 freighter at Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD) as well as recently secured the ISO 14001 environmental certification from Quality Consulting Services. Operating from its hub at GYD in Baku, Azerbaijan, the cargo airline connects Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas.
Transportation
• Crowley’s latest Avance Class ship, Torogoz, began its inaugural commercial service in August 2025, departing from Port Everglades, Florida, to serve Central America. With a capacity of 1,400 TEUs, including 300 refrigerated containers, the ship is designed to quickly and frequently deliver cargo, including apparel, fresh produce, food products, pharmaceuticals, and textiles, between the United States and El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
• CN and CSX signed an agreement to develop a new intermodal service into Nashville, Tennessee. By replacing the current trucking leg with a steel-wheel interchange, the service will provide customers with an all-rail alternative for international containers moving from Canada’s West Coast gateways through Memphis directly into Nashville.
• Swiss WorldCargo joined Lufthansa Cargo’s and United Cargo’s joint business agreement, which provides cargo customers with more flexibility and transportation options, via denser direct connections to and from Europe over the Atlantic. The airlines will cooperate on cargo traffic between more than 200 destinations in the United States to Zurich and Frankfurt.
• OOCL launched Transpacific Latin Pacific 8 (TLP8) to strengthen express linkage between Asia and Mexico. The new ocean service offers direct connections between China and Mexico, with a transit time of 16 and 20 days from Qingdao to Ensenada and Manzanillo respectively.
Technology
↑ Carrier Transicold’s Carrier Lynx Fleet telematics platform now provides more insights into transport refrigeration unit (TRU) performance and tracking and monitoring of connected vehicles. The latest update brings new analytics and remote diagnostic capabilities for Carrier Transicold TRUs. It also supports dry van telematics, electric TRUs, the latest sensor technology, and API integrations that provide access to real-time information.
• Supply chain orchestration solutions provider Cleo partnered with cloud-native automation platform Open ECX to help companies automate inbound and outbound document flows. Leveraging the Cleo Integration Cloud and Open ECX’s AI-supported automation engine, the joint solution provides integrations between disparate systems, such as ERPs like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and NetSuite, and a customer’s trading partner network.
• DCL Logistics launched SelectShip, an AI-powered shipping engine that helps ecommerce companies automate parcel decisions. Managed and embedded within DCL’s fulfillment stack, with routing intelligence provided by Shipium and execution handled by DCL’s transportation team, the solution optimizes shipping decisions for speed, cost, and reliability.
• ISD’s new automation system OneTouchDistribution can optimize order fulfillment for case, split-case, and pallet operations for distribution centers with diverse fulfillment requirements. The system automates inbound processing by receiving products through lift trucks, autonomous mobile robots, humanoids, or cobots. Once received, items are scanned, recorded, and directed into an automated storage and retrieval system.
• Dispatch Science introduced DataBridge, its cloud-native integration platform as a service (iPaaS), to remove the technical and financial roadblocks that can prevent carriers from working with new shippers. Hosted in Microsoft Azure’s cloud environment, it lets carriers connect to shipper systems and automate the exchange of orders, updates, and delivery documents.
• Descartes Systems Group released Descartes Visual Compliance AI Assist, a denied party screening advancement that uses AI capabilities to help trade compliance teams automatically reduce the effort required to review and clear false positives. False positives are alerts that appear to match restricted, sanctioned, and denied party entities but are actually benign matches.
• TransmetriQ, a Railinc brand and a provider of intermodal shipment intelligence, launched an ocean and rail visibility solution that lets shippers track shipments by vessel or container, spot delays in real time, and verify ETAs. By integrating GPS-based vessel data, AI-driven ETA modeling, and centralized event reporting from more than 41 shipping lines, 6,000 ports, and 600 railroads, TransmetriQ provides logistics teams with insights into their containerized goods moving between ocean vessels and North American railroads.
• Qued now offers an advanced load appointment scheduling solution to help mitigate weather-related supply chain challenges. Its AI-powered rescheduling capabilities leverage real-time ETA data to automatically pinpoint at-risk pickups and deliveries.
• Epicor added AI capabilities to its ERP platform to optimize supply chain and tax management. It partnered with SourceDay, a supply chain collaboration platform, and Sovos, a tax compliance company, to complement its Epicor Kinetic ERP platform for manufacturers, providing them with contextual intelligence.
← The ZiM (Zero Infrastructure Mesh) Bridge from Dot Ai is a compact device—about the size of a smartphone—that can continuously scan its surroundings to collect asset tag information for real-time visibility in warehouses and manufacturing plants. The patent-pending ZiM hardware was engineered to be layered with API integrations to existing enterprise and vertical SaaS solutions, and Dot Ai’s AI-powered SaaS platform, for operational visibility.
Products
→ The Clamco 6800CS automatic side sealer from PAC Machinery is a packaging solution that can wrap up to 4,200 packs per hour. The system is suitable for polyolefin or polyethylene center-folded shrink film. Packages can be as large as 10 inches high, 16 inches wide on the 6800CS. For the 6800CS-XL version, packages can be as large as 11.75 inches high, 24 inches wide. Virtually any length is possible on both units.
← Qimarox introduced a new materials handling machine for emptying vertical buffers, where products are temporarily “parked,” for manufacturing and logistics applications. The Qimarox PR15 consists of a vertically mobile conveyor, mounted on the product lift PRmk1, combined with the vertical conveyor PRmk5. The system can process as many as 1,500 products per hour.
• Photoneo unveiled a new 3D camera, MotionCam-3D Color (Blue), which enhances data capture and vision-guided automation, particularly for materials handling and high-speed vision-guided robotics applications. Powered by a blue laser, the advancement aims to make 97% of logistics items pickable without pre-sorting to expand automation possibilities and eliminate bottlenecks.
• Hyster’s forklift charging solution made it to Plant Engineering magazine’s product of the year list. The onboard charging solution allows lithium-ion powered equipment to charge from standard 120- and 240-volt electrical outlets, enabling more operations to leverage electric forklifts. The onboard charging option is available on several Hyster lift trucks with lift capacities ranging from 4,000 to 8,000 pounds.
↑ Worksite safety specialist Ergodyne launched new thermal impact gloves, a freezer jacket, and merino blend socks, offering a head-to-toe system for cold storage and sub-zero work. Its new ProFlex gloves are touchscreen capable and have a dual layer of latex and nitrile, which remains flexible in cold weather for easy handling of equipment and materials.
↑ Projected signs from Projected Image improve worksite safety and are impactful in areas where traditional floor or wall signage can become worn, obscured, or ignored. Projected signage remains clear in low light, on wet surfaces, or where layouts frequently change. Its LED projectors offer up to 50,000 hours of lamp life.
↑ DP World expanded its automotive logistics capacity at Dubai’s Jebel Ali Port, with the launch of a new 2.6 million-square-foot vehicle storage yard at Terminal 4. The upgrade adds 13,000 CEUs (car equivalent units), raising the port’s total storage capacity to 75,000 CEUs. The expansion includes a quay that can handle up to three roll-on/roll-off vessels simultaneously.
Services
↑ CB Customs Broker now handles customs clearance for Lufthansa Cargo’s “Perishables to Door” service, managing customs processes in Frankfurt, Munich, and Brussels. Temperature-sensitive goods from around the world—from mangoes from Mexico, roses from Kenya, to papayas from Brazil—arrive by air and continue by road to destinations across Europe.
• Arvato, a global provider of supply chain solutions, is building a new logistics facility in Louisville, Kentucky—its latest capital investment in the United States after acquiring Carbel, a 3PL fashion provider, earlier in 2025. Site preparation is underway, with operations expected to begin in the first quarter of 2026.
• ShipBob, a supply chain and fulfillment platform for SMB and mid-market omnichannel merchants, now offers a de minimis defense program for companies impacted by the suspension of duty-free de minimis for all countries. To complement this program, multiple Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) warehouses are also now available across its network.
↑ DoKaSch Temperature Solutions expanded its U.S. presence with a new service station in Atlanta, Georgia, providing access to temperature-controlled containers at short notice. Operated in collaboration with SEKO Logistics, the station is located near Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, expanding DoKaSch’s global network for time-critical pharmaceutical logistics.