Aires has announced the opening of a new office in Phoenix, Arizona, to accommodate client growth and ensure strategic alignment in the Western region.

At an exclusive event at the TEC Equipment dealership in Fontana, California, Volvo Trucks offered a first look at its North American Class 8 battery-electric project trucks.

Sterling Lexicon, a leading provider of global relocation services, has upgraded its popular household goods small shipment service with the introduction of Sterling Xpress.

Daimler Trucks is further expanding its field tests for medium and heavy-duty e-trucks in North America.

A new service has been launched in the USA that has the potential to take business away from traditional moving companies by offering customers a simple self-move or baggage moving service.

Cartus has launched a new service for small shipments that it claims offers faster transit times, fewer claims, exact-day delivery for eligible customers, and potential cost savings for clients.

In the summer of 2009 Adam Lowry, while working for the family removals company in New Jersey, founded a non-profit organisation dedicated to reducing the huge mountain of food wasted in the US every year and delivering it to the thousands of hungry people across the country.

According to Xeneta, the ocean freight benchmarking and analytics company, if you look beneath the surface of a relatively calm month for long-term contracted ocean freight rates you’ll see a maelstrom of activity, adjustments and market uncertainty.

Mark Oakeshott, Mark Oakeshott Consulting LLC, welcomes visitors to IAM (International Association of Movers) in his adopted home town.

Austin Winner, a PR consultant working on behalf of Allied Van Lines, looks at why Americans are staying put these days.

Scott Michael, AMSA President & CEO (American Moving & Storage Association), has issued a statement clarifying his organisation’s position regarding the proposed outsourcing of military household goods moving.

A new service, which claims to dramatically improve the number of leads generated from moving companies’ websites, has been launched by UK technology company Yomdel.

Sterling Lexicon has announced the launch of its newly-redesigned website, sterlinglexicon.com, providing an integrated global platform for its customers in the global relocation marketplace.

According to Atlas Van Lines, 2018 was another positive year for the relocation industry, with roughly 90% of organisations indicating relocation volumes and budgets either held steady or increased.

Rex Direct has launched a new shared moving lead platform for US moving companies to help increase their interstate and local moving business.

Arpin Group has earned number-one ranking in supplier satisfaction among the largest suppliers of household goods shipment services for the third straight year according to independent research firm Trippel Survey & Research, LLC.

Megan Harless, the military spouse and US army veteran who last year shook up the US military by starting a petition asking for improvements in the quality of military moves, has made some suggestions about how those improvements could be made rather than going to the lengths of privatising the whole contract.

Bonnie Cameron from Aires reflects on the health of the US property market.

Online freight forwarder iContainers says that the US is still experiencing supply chain headaches over a year since the hard enforcement of the Electronic Logging Device (ELD).

Bill Paxton from Paxton International in Washington, DC has been appointed as chairman of AMSA (American Moving and Storage Association).