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Donald Pratt died at the age of 72 in Charlotte, N.C. For more than 20 years, Pratt was the head of Carolina Handling, one of material handling equipment manufacturer Raymond's largest dealers. He took the company from three employees to over 200 at his retirement. Pratt also founded battery-changing company Multi-Shifter in 1974. … Port terminal operator MTC Holdings is being purchased by Highstar Capital, a subsidiary of AIG Global Investment Group. Headquartered in San Francisco, MTC is one of the largest independent terminal operators on the West Coast and is growing its operations on the East Coast. … Old Dominion Freight Line has opened a new service center in Long Beach, Calif. … Kansas-based supply chain consulting firm Xelocity has acquired PPM Ltd., a consulting and training company based in New Zealand and South Africa. … Horizon Lines has signed a letter of intent to purchase Honolulu-based Hawaii Stevedores. … RedPrairie has announced a standard integration of its products with the Microsoft Dynamics GP enterprise resource planning suite. The objective of the integration is to enable faster and less costly implementations. … Third-party logistics company C.H. Robinson Worldwide has expanded operations in Southeast Asia with the opening of a new office in Singapore. … Also in Singapore, Menlo Worldwide has acquired Singaporebased Cougar Logistics Corp., which includes Cougar Express Logistics, a freight forwarding, warehousing, logistics, and distribution management company. … A newly formed company, Goods Movement Inc., has acquired design and integration firm W&H Systems, headquartered in Carlstadt, N.J. Goods Movement, which is based in Rancho Dominguez, Calif., will add W&H to its portfolio, which now includes Total Transportation Services and North American Conveyor Inc.