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  • ProLogis has pre-leased 186,000 square feet of a new 437,000-squarefoot building in Tianjin, China, to Jinji Total Logistics, a third-party logistics service provider that serves Samsung in Asia. The facility, which is scheduled for completion early next year, will be used to distribute Samsung products within China. Samsung has a manufacturing facility just over a mile from the building.
  • WOW Logistics has built a new 126,000-square-foot distribution center in Chippewa Falls, Wis. The new facility, which will serve WOW's client Premium Waters, is located across the street from two other WOW DCs. The three buildings combined provide WOW with nearly a million square feet of distribution space in Chippewa Falls.
  • AMB Property Corp. has completed the first building in its AMB Morgan Business Park near the Port of Savannah, Ga. The new 347,000- square-foot facility is also the first spec building in the southeastern United States that meets the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Standard for environmentally responsible design.
  • Freight forwarder Target Logistic Services has opened a facility near the airport in Salt Lake City, Utah. The new building will allow Target to offer its full range of domestic and international supply chain services to customers moving freight through Salt Lake City. The terminal is equipped to handle high-tech components, aerospace equipment, automotive parts, and retail products.

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RJW Logistics gains private equity backing

RJW Logistics Group, a logistics solutions provider (LSP) for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, has received a “strategic investment” from Boston-based private equity firm Berkshire partners, and now plans to drive future innovations and expand its geographic reach, the Woodridge, Illinois-based company said Tuesday.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the company said that CEO Kevin Williamson and other members of RJW management will continue to be “significant investors” in the company, while private equity firm Mason Wells, which invested in RJW in 2019, will maintain a minority investment position.

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GEP: six factors could change calm to storm in 2025

The current year is ending on a calm note for the logistics sector, but 2025 is on pace to be an era of rapid transformation, due to six driving forces that will shape procurement and supply chains in coming months, according to a forecast from New Jersey-based supply chain software provider GEP.

"After several years of mitigating inflation, disruption, supply shocks, conflicts, and uncertainty, we are currently in a relative period of calm," John Paitek, vice president, GEP, said in a release. "But it is very much the calm before the coming storm. This report provides procurement and supply chain leaders with a prescriptive guide to weathering the gale force headwinds of protectionism, tariffs, trade wars, regulatory pressures, uncertainty, and the AI revolution that we will face in 2025."

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US Bank tracks top three supply chain impacts for 2025

Freight transportation sector analysts with US Bank say they expect change on the horizon in that market for 2025, due to possible tariffs imposed by a new White House administration, the return of East and Gulf coast port strikes, and expanding freight fraud.

“All three of these merit scrutiny, and that is our promise as we roll into the new year,” the company said in a statement today.

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Descartes: businesses say top concern is tariff hikes

Business leaders at companies of every size say that rising tariffs and trade barriers are the most significant global trade challenge facing logistics and supply chain leaders today, according to a survey from supply chain software provider Descartes.

Specifically, 48% of respondents identified rising tariffs and trade barriers as their top concern, followed by supply chain disruptions at 45% and geopolitical instability at 41%. Moreover, tariffs and trade barriers ranked as the priority issue regardless of company size, as respondents at companies with less than 250 employees, 251-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-50,000 and 50,000+ employees all cited it as the most significant issue they are currently facing.

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Shippers Conditions index reached high-point in September

A measure of business conditions for shippers improved in September due to lower fuel costs, looser trucking capacity, and lower freight rates, but the freight transportation forecasting firm FTR still expects readings to be weaker and closer to neutral through its two-year forecast period.

Bloomington, Indiana-based FTR is maintaining its stance that trucking conditions will improve, even though its Shippers Conditions Index (SCI) improved in September to 4.6 from a 2.9 reading in August, reaching its strongest level of the year.

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