GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), the aviation leasing and financing arm of GE, is underway with its inaugural 737-800NG passenger-to-freighter conversion with Miami-based Aeronautical Engineers Inc. (AEI).

Import cargo volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to be at some of its highest levels ever during the next few months despite a fall-off from last year's record-setting numbers, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.

Dematic, a supplier of automated technology, software and services for material handling, has released version 2.1 of Dematic iQ, the vendor's real-time software automation platform for grocery retailers.