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Redwood Logistics Receives Armstrong & Associates’ Domestic Transportation Award for 3PL

Redwood Logistics Receives Armstrong & Associates’ Domestic Transportation Award for 3PL

Redwood Logistics Receives Armstrong & Associates’ Domestic Transportation Award for 3PL

Digital capabilities set Redwood apart among Top 100 third-party logistics providers

Redwood Logistics (Redwood), one of the fastest-growing supply chain and logistics companies in North America, announced today the company is No. 20 on the Armstrong & Associates, Inc. Top 100 Domestic Transportation Management (DTM) Third-Party Logistics (3PL) list for 2022-23. The ranking cements Redwood’s strong position in the 3PL marketplace. Combined with advanced digital capabilities, Redwood is able to provide unparalleled value to customers in the supply chain, elevating it as the premier choice for shippers’ logistics needs.

Redwood is the most progressive 3PL in the North American market, with a product and service mix that includes transportation management, omni-channel distribution and fulfillment to the entire continental U.S. within five days, dedicated capacity procurement, digital freight brokerage, warehousing, and LTL and parcel solutions. Redwood’s proprietary supply chain integration platform, RedwoodConnect™, uses digital connectivity to accelerate these services and offer customers unmatched speed and agility in volatile markets.

Already a proven 3PL, Redwood has evolved into a modern fourth-party logistics (4PL) provider, using real-time data synchronized across an open ecosystem of leading FreightTech vendors and digital carrier connections, offering creative solutions for shippers and maximizing capacity utilization for owner-operators and fleets.

Armstrong & Associates is a leading 3PL market research company. See A&A’s full Top 100 Domestic Transportation Management 3PL list ranked by gross DTM revenue.

About Redwood Logistics

Redwood Logistics, a leading logistics platform company headquartered in Chicago, has provided solutions for moving and managing freight for more than 21 years. The company’s diverse portfolio includes digital freight brokerage, flexible freight management and innovative platform services all wrapped into a revolutionary logistics and technology delivery model — Logistics Platform as a Service (LPaaS)™. LPaaS utilizes an open platform for digital logistics that empowers shippers to seamlessly mix-and-match partners, technologies and solutions into their own unique digital supply chain fingerprint. Redwood connects a wide range of customers to the power of supply chain management, technology and the industry’s brightest minds. For more information, visit www.redwoodlogistics.com.

 

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Sonatype Names Finalists for 2022 Elevate Awards

16 Organizations Recognized for Driving Innovation and Delivering Remarkable Results Through Software Development Lifecycle

Sonatype, the pioneer of software supply chain management, today announced the finalists of the 2022 Elevate Awards. The annual Elevate Awards celebrate leading organizations and teams that are bold innovators and fearless experimenters transforming software supply chain management.

This year’s finalists include:

Fastest Time to Value Award

  • Commerzbank AG
  • KKB – KKB Kredi Kayıt Bürosu A.Ş. (Credit Bureau of Turkey)
  • U.S. federal agency
  • Vitality Group International

OSS Health & Fitness Award

  • ABN Amro Bank NV
  • KKB – KKB Kredi Kayıt Bürosu A.Ş. (Credit Bureau of Turkey)
  • Railinc

Silo-Bridger Award

  • 1-800 Contacts
  • BNP Paribas Bank Poland
  • Changi Airport Group (CAG)
  • Instinet

Software Supply Chain Impact Award

  • Alvaria, Inc.
  • Atruvia AG
  • EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG
  • Leading US-based global financial services technology provider

Tech Debt Destroyer Award

  • BMW of North America
  • KKB – KKB Kredi Kayıt Bürosu A.Ş. (Credit Bureau of Turkey)
  • Healthesystems
  • US-based asset tokenization platform

Winners will be announced on Wednesday, December 7 at Elevate 2022, Sonatype’s annual user conference. In addition to honoring Elevate Awards winners, this year’s free, virtual event will bring together practitioners, leaders, and industry experts from around the globe for educational sessions, breakout groups, peer to peer exchanges and 3 insightful keynotes about the changing landscape of software development and security.

Registration for Sonatype’s Elevate 2022 conference is free and open to all Sonatype customers and those who are interested in learning how to effectively manage their software supply chains across their organizations and at scale.

ABOUT SONATYPE
Sonatype is the software supply chain management company. We empower developers and security professionals with intelligent tools to innovate more securely at scale. Our platform addresses every element of an organization’s entire software development life cycle, including third-party open source code, first-party source code and containerized code. Sonatype identifies critical security vulnerabilities and code quality issues and reports results directly to developers when they can most effectively fix them. This helps organizations develop consistently high-quality, secure software which fully meets their business needs and those of their end-customers and partners. More than 2,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 100, and 15 million software developers already rely on our tools and guidance to help them deliver and maintain exceptional and secure software.

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TT Club Innovation in Safety Award 2022 Opens for Entries

Following the successful re-introduction of the Award in 2021 with its record number of entries, the 2022 award will form the centerpiece of TT Club and ICHCA’s on-going efforts to encourage players in the freight transport and cargo handling sectors further in continuing to improve operational safety and efficiency through innovation.

ICHCA International, the global cargo handling association, launched the 2022 TT Club Innovation in Safety Award today inviting entrants to submit details of their innovations by 11 November 2022. The Award, which is open to an individual, team or company involved in cargo logistics, has seen the prestige associated with winning or being highly commended, grow year-on-year. Past winners have ranged from individual entrepreneurs and specialist suppliers to employee teams in major industry businesses. Entrants are required to show that a product, idea, solution, process, scheme or other innovation has resulted in a demonstrable improvement in safety.

Details of how to submit entries and of the judging criteria can be found here.

 Both ICHCA and TT Club have a fundamental commitment to risk reduction throughout the entire freight supply chain. Promoting safety advice and good practices is paramount to the philosophy of the two organizations and the Award reflects this commitment. As such, the Award and the consequent profiling of the innovations put forward by its enthusiastic entrants, is central to the twoglobal  organizations’ efforts to support continuous improvement in safety.

They will continue to provide opportunities to showcase winners and other entrants, organizing Safety Villages at industry forums and other live or virtual events. The range of the safety information and guidance documents these two organizations produce, from white papers to webinars and from advisories to checklists, can be found on their individual websites.

In past years, submissions to the Award program have ranged in focus from bulk cargo handling to securing containers and their cargoes; from safety reporting and education to the correct handling of dangerous materials; from environmental monitoring to fire detection and suppression. The 2021 Award went to VIKING Life-Saving Equipment A/S for its HydroPen system designed to fight onboard container fires. HydroPen has recently secured a major contract to supply the entire Maersk fleet, gaining traction to deliver global ship safety.

Those highly commended in this latest Award included PSA International for its video analytics solution to prevent in-terminal collisions and Cargotec’s innovation to inspect containers from below, effectively and safely identifying any damage and ensuring they are free of any invasive pests.

The Award ceremony will take place in February 2023 where the winners will be announced, those shortlisted will present their entries and innovation will be celebrated once more.

About ICHCA International

Established in 1952, ICHCA International is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the safety, productivity and efficiency of cargo handling and movement worldwide. ICHCA’s privileged NGO status enables it to represent its members, and the cargo handling industry at large, in front of national and international agencies and regulatory bodies, while its Technical Panel provides best practice advice and develops publications on a wide range of practical cargo handling issues.

Operating through a series of national and regional chapters, including ICHCA Australia, ICHCA Japan and plus Correspondence and Working Groups, ICHCA provides a focal point for informing, educating, lobbying and networking to improve knowledge and best practice across the cargo handling chain.

About TT Club

TT Club is the established market-leading independent provider of mutual insurance and related risk management services to the international transport and logistics industry. TT Club’s primary objective is to help make the industry safer and more secure. Founded in 1968, the Club has more than 1100 Members, spanning container owners and operators, ports and terminals, and logistics companies, working across maritime, road, rail, and air. TT Club is renowned for its high-quality service, in-depth industry knowledge and enduring Member loyalty. It retains more than 97% of its Members with a third of its entire membership having chosen to insure with the Club for 20 years or more.

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Terrific Honorifics: Notable Names Recognized for Excellence

The Maritime Association of the Port of New York and New Jersey inducted into its International Maritime Hall of Fame:

Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, president and CEO, Celebrity Cruises Inc.;

James R. Mara, president emeritus, Metropolitan Marine Maintenance Contractors’ Association;

James I. Newsome III, president and CEO, South Carolina Ports Authority;

Nikolas P. Tsakos, president and CEO, Tsakos Energy Navigation Corp.;

and Lois K. Zabrocky, president, CEO and director, International Seaways Inc. 

The American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) 2021 Humanitarian Logistics Awards winners for Outstanding Contribution to Disaster Relief are:

CEVA Logistics, Palmer Logistics, Core-Mark International, J.B. Hunt Transport Services and the American Trucking Associations

Tucker Company Worldwide and Truckstop.com received ALAN’s Director’s Partnership Award, and Dr. José Holguín-Veras of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Dr. Hossein Zarei of Coventry University were bestowed Research and Academic Contributions awards. And students and staff from the W.P. Carrey School of Business at Arizona State University, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and the University of Wisconsin-Madison received ALAN’s Student Engagement Award. 

The Port of Long Beach collected the most awards from the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) for 13 outstanding communications campaigns that were adapted or designed to meet the unique challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. The haul included nine AAPA Awards of Excellence, the equivalent of first-place trophies. Also winning multiple AAPA awards was the Port of Vancouver USA for its 2020 digital holiday card, virtual port tour video program and Overall Communications Excellence. 

C.H. Robinson 2021 Carrier of the Year winners include:

Berber Trucking, Tranquility, California;

Blunt Enterprise LLC, Mansfield, Missouri;

Daily Express, Inc., Carlisle, Pennsylvania;

Dayton Freight Lines, Inc., Dayton, Ohio;

Dieselgrid, Savannah, Georgia;

Freeport Logistics, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona;

Gabriela Transport Services, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada;

J&R Schugel Trucking, Inc., New Ulm, Minnesota;

Millwood Trucking Inc., Nashville, Arkansas;

Nathan’s Trucking, New Berlin, Wisconsin;

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc., Thomasville, North Carolina;

Rented Mule Express LLC, Chatsworth, Georgia;

Road Hogg Transport LLC, Hilliard, Ohio;

Seneca Foods Eastern Fleet, Geneva, New York;

Seneca Foods Western Fleet, Payette, Idaho;

Skyway Express, Inc., Chicago, Illinois;

and Timmons Transit, Inc., Jonesboro, Arkansas. 

For six years, Kenworth Truck Co., FASTPORT Trucking Track Mentoring Program and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes Program have teamed up to recognize America’s top rookie military veteran drivers.

The top finalists for the Transition Trucking: Driving for Excellence 2021 honor to be announced on Dec. 17 are:

Jimmy Reddell/U.S. Army, Army Reserves/Stevens Transport;

James Rose/U.S. Marines/PRIME Inc.;

and Christopher Slindee/U.S. Army/Knight Transportation.

The United Seamen’s Service 52nd annual Admiral of the Ocean Sea Award will be presented in New York this Dec. 3 to:

Kathy Metcalf, president and CEO of the Chamber of Shipping of America;

William Woodhour, president and CEO of Maersk Line, Ltd.;

and David Heindel, secretary-treasurer of the Seafarers International Union of North America, AFL-CIO and chairman of the International Transport Workers’ Federation’s Seafarers’ Section, representing 1.2 million seafarers worldwide. 

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) named Impello Global Insurance Services LLC the 2021 New Broker of the Year. Headquartered in Seattle, Impello Global is a relatively new specialty trade-credit and political risk-insurance brokerage firm that provides EXIM’s short- and medium-term export credit insurance, as well as assistance with EXIM’s long-term financing, for the West and Mountain regions of the country. In receiving the same award, Meridian Financial of Los Angeles became the second firm to get the honor for the fourth time.