Consumer demand for next-day deliveries adds another level of complexity and higher costs to logistics management, says Alex Pace, logistics coordinator at the Green Design Center. Pace explains how the Green Design Center manages its many LTL shipments to individual consumers and dealers.

DHL is now utilizing helicopters to deliver letters and packages of up to 650 pounds in downtown Chicago.

CEVA Logistics has expanded operations in Portland, Ore. with enhancements to an existing facility.

XPO Logistics has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Norbert Dentressangle SA, a provider of contract logistics services with headquarters in Lyon, France.

Echo Global Logistics has entered into an agreement to acquire Command Transportation LLC, a privately held truckload broker and non-asset-based transportation provider in the U.S.

C.H. Robinson, a global provider of multimodal logistics and freight-forwarding services, has opened a fully owned global forwarding office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

TNT has opened a new "super hub" in Sydney, Australia.

CaroTrans, a global non-vessel operating common carrier and ocean freight consolidator, has launched a weekly less-than-containerload (LCL) service from New York to Helsinki, Finland, a hub for consolidations into northwestern Russia.