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Third-party logistics service provider AFN Logistics
has announced its new AFN Women’s Empowerment
in Supply Chain Scholarship, supporting students at
Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, and the
AFN Logistics Supply Chain Expendable Scholarship for
Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business.
The scholarships were created to support women pur-
suing careers in the industry. … Penske Truck Leasing
has opened a 6,500-square-foot transportation opera-
tion in Avon Lake, Ohio, that features full-service truck
leasing, consumer and commercial truck rental, and
contract truck fleet maintenance services. The company
has also opened a transportation facility on a 6.5-acre
property in Mobile, Ala. … Seizmic Inc. has launched
its Seizmic24 initiative, a program offering expedited
turnaround of preliminary designs to rack manufac-
turers, systems integrators, and distributors. … APL
Logistics Ltd. has opened an office for its newest joint
venture company, APL Logistics Oman SAOC, in Muscat,
Oman. … InMotion Global Inc. now offers unlimited
load tracking and driver texting from its Ascend TMS for
only $10 per month. … In April, MOL’s MOL Triumph,
the world’s largest containership, successfully arrived
at Yangshan Port in Shanghai. … Crowley Maritime
has gone live with CitadelMC, Tideworks Technology
Inc.’s cloud-based SaaS terminal operating system, at its
San Juan Terminal in Puerto Rico. … During the first six
months of fiscal year 2017, Florida’s Jaxport recorded
13 percent growth in Asian container shipments over
the same period last year, moving 178,249 twenty-foot
equivalent units (TEUs) compared with 157,689 TEUs
in 2016. … Port Manatee and Colombia are looking to
expand commercial ties following a visit to the Florida
Gulf Coast port from a Colombian trade official. …
Dematic has engaged Peyton Manning as the keynote
speaker and Sheryl Crow as musical guest for its 2017
Material Handling & Logistics Conference in September.
… Paragon Software Systems Inc.’s route planning soft-
ware can now help transportation planners harness data
gathered to comply with the Electronic Logging Device
mandate, including information on driver hours-of-ser-
vice, truck utilization, and on-time delivery performance.
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