Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: The logistics boom drives an e-commerce firm’s relocation in Texas; MercuryGate acquires customs software provider International Trade Systems; New Mexico announces two logistics hubs in Santa Teresa; and a Texas city receives approval for a Foreign Trade Zone program.
Logistics boom drives e-commerce firm’s relocation from Austin to Houston
Cart.com is moving its...
It’s no surprise that the U.S. West Coast ports have seen such horrendous congestion — everything seems to funnel through Southern California.
The Port of Long Beach reported last month that it moved more cargo in 2021 than any year on record, handling 9,384,368 twenty-foot equivalent units. This represents a 15.7% year-over-year (yoy) increase in containers overall, including a 14.6% yoy increase in imports (4,581,846 TEUs), smashing the previous container record set just a year prior.
As the...
Longistics was founded by Duane and Pat Long in 1984, but their love affair with the industry began several years before. In May 1977, the two attended National Transportation Week. They met at the conference and fell in love with each other and the trucking industry simultaneously.
Duane Long is the co-founder and Chairman of the company, which is a full-service provider of global logistics solutions headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. Longistics provides trucking, warehousing and...
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Descartes Systems Group (NASDAQ:DSGX), a global leader in on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions, announced Monday it has acquired QuestaWeb, a premier provider of global trade management (GTM) solutions. Descartes acquired Clark, New Jersey-headquartered QuestaWeb for approximately $36 million, satisfied from cash on hand, a news release said.
QuestaWeb’s web-based GTM is a foreign trade zone (FTZ) solution that allows logistics services providers (LSPs) and importers to automate processes...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/descartes-acquires-questaweb-foreign-trade-zone-solution
FedEx Logistics adds Foreign Trade Zone in El Paso
FedEx Logistics is expanding its footprint of Foreign Trade Zones (FTZ) with a new location in El Paso, Texas.
The site is the latest FTZ facility to be opened by FedEx Logistics, adding to existing locations in Los Angeles, New York, Dallas and Chicago. FedEx Logistics is a subsidiary of Memphis, Tennessee-based FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX).
The new FTZ in El Paso will be used to streamline the transportation of international raw materials and...