Livingston International, a customs broker and trade-compliance company, has expanded operations in Asia with the offering of a suite of global trade management (GTM) services in Taiwan, and an expanded presence in China.
Johnson Controls Inc. had a logistics mystery on its hands: thousands of reusable shipping boxes and storage racks were disappearing every year. The auto-parts maker, which was spending a small fortune to replace the equipment, found that some were squirreled away at factories by Johnson Controls' own plant managers, others were kept by customers. One box was discovered at a Michigan gun range; another had wound up storing bait on a fishing boat in Seattle.