DHL’s new sorting center at its global air hub in Leipzig, Germany opened Thursday, enabling the company to sort bulkier and heavier shipments with automation, along with boosting the site’s handling capacity to 150,000 shipments per hour.

The Canadian Society of Customs Brokers names board chairman, while R.J. Corman Railroad Group picks CEO.

The Greenbrier Cos. and Astra Rail Management GmbH said they will form a new company to create a Europe-based freight railcar manufacturing, engineering and repair business.

OmniTRAX Sand Holdings, an affiliate of OmniTRAX, Inc., has entered into a joint venture with bulk storage and transportation services provider Arrows Up.

The Port of Philadelphia on Friday is scheduled to receive the first loads of Brazilian beef to the United States in decades.

Ed Ryan, chief executive officer of Descartes Systems Group, said the acquisition will give Descartes’ customers access to a wider range of data integration capabilities for standardizing and automating buy-side and sell-side processes.

PSA International has purchased Hong Kong-based Luck Glory International Ltd., which owns a 15.33 percent share of China United International Rail Containers, for an undisclosed price, the company said in a statement.

The Southern California port’s box volumes declined considerably after South Korean ocean carrier Hanjin filed for bankruptcy Aug. 31.

The real-time truckload tracking and visibility startup said it will use the investment funds to integrate more data sources into its platform, expand internationally, and cover additional transportation modes such as LTL, rail, intermodal, and ocean.

American Shipper’s IT editor Eric Johnson gave a presentation at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals Roundtable Tuesday night in Jacksonville, Fla. on “The Amazon Effect.”