Surveys are snapshots. They don't tell you what respondents were thinking a year earlier, or a day later. They offer up opinions that are frozen in time.

Air France is phasing out its B747-400s, beginning with its three B747-400ER freighters, and closing one of its cargo centers.

Changing regulatory environments, new customer demands around the globe, challenges around product security and increasingly complex products are driving healthcare executives to make strategic supply chain investments, according to findings from the sixth annual UPS "Pain in the (Supply) Chain" healthcare survey, conducted by TNS. New technology investments and go-to-market models are top of mind as healthcare executives drive business and logistics transformations to meet evolving industry needs.

Graybar, the distributor of electrical, communications and data-networking products, and provider of related supply-chain management and logistics services, has opened a full-service branch in Columbia, Mo.

time:matters, a specialist in expedited logistics, has expanded its ic:kurier network for same-day shipments destined for points outside Germany, with the opening of a new international station in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.