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Mike Short, president of Global Forwarding at C.H. Robinson, provided Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman with a detailed overview of the many issues shippers are facing, including the labor shortage, inflation, and mode selection, among many others.

With the company deep into Peak Season, Mike Short, president of Global Forwarding at C.H. Robinson, provided Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman with an overview of how the company approaches Peak Season and works with shippers to meet their objectives, at a time which may be the most unique and challenging market conditions the sector has ever seen.

Transportation and logistics bellwether UPS said today it has made a significant expansion to its less-than-container load (LCL) ocean service, adding direct sailings in 130 lanes.

San Francisco-based freight forwarding and customs brokerage services provider Flexport recently announced plans to open up a warehouse in close proximity to the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, effective next month.

Freight transportation and logistics services provider Averitt Express recently announced that it has taken steps to augment its less-than-container (LCL) service from China in the form of two new weekly departures to Memphis, Tenn. and Charleston, SC.

Transportation and logistics bellwether UPS said this week it has expanded its UPS Preferred multimodal freight services portfolio with the introduction of a less-than-container load (LCL) option for China-to-Europe rail shipments.

UPS recently announced it has expanded its UPS Preferred Less-Than-Container Load (LCL) expedited ocean freight service between Asia and three Mexico-based locales in Monterrey, Mexico City, and Guadalajara.

This service, said UPS, provides shippers with time-in-transit improvements that leverage its existing North American freight network.

The new lanes are from Shanghai, China and Singapore to three Australia-based locations, Sydney, Melbourne, and Fremantle.

Global third-party logistics (3PL) services provider MIQ Logistics recently announced that it has bolstered its EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) presence through an initiative centered on providing less-than-container (LCL) consolidation services from Istanbul, Turkey to New York.

Taking its next steps in launching a less-than-container load (LCL) offering, global third-party logistics (3PL) services provider CEVA Logistics announced today that it has opened two new LCL lanes.

Spurred in large part by a 40 percent gain in shipments from Asia in 2011, less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services provider Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) said it has expanded its Pacific Promise less-than-container load (LCL) service to ten ports in eight Asian countries.

Freight transportation services provider ABF said this week it has rolled out a new offering entitled Ocean LTL.

CEVA Logistics recently announced it is ramping up its less-than-container-load (LCL) service offerings, with the addition of a new service from Hamburg to New York.

FedEx subsidiary FedEx Trade Networks, the company’s global trade arm, is taking steps to augment its ocean freight forwarding services in the form of a new Ocean Choices portfolio the company introduced today.