NGL Goes Global
    Next Generation Logistics has formed Next Generation Global Logistics, to address worldwide delivery of freight. Currently celebrating its eleventh anniversary, NGL has developed from a regional logistics firm into a company that provides full service logistics management consulting, outsourced contract logistics, international freight forwarding, customs house brokering, and NVOCC. Ari Smith is president of the firm, based in Inverness, a suburb of Chicago.

Flynn Moves to Double Sized Quarters
    Flynn Transportation Services has moved to new, larger quarters in Florida, where the brokerage has been located for the past ten years. The new address is 100 N.E. 5th Avenue, Suite B1 in Delray Beach. President Chip Flynn reports that the new digs contain space for ten in the operations area plus executive offices and conference room.

ABC - Huge Broker - Purchased by CHRW
    American Backhaulers of Chicago, one of the country's largest broker operations, has been purchased by its biggest competition, C.H. Robinson Worldwide. Robinson is the largest broker in the United States and a major non-asset-based service provider.

    ABH President Paul Loeb, founder of the company, continues to head the business, which now operates as a division of C.H. Robinson. Rob Pierson, a CHR VP, has joined ABH to assist with the integration of the two firms.

Curtis Brokerage Bought Up
    After more than 40 years, the owner of Curtis Trucking in Fredericksburg, VA, has sold his operation. Purchaser is insurance executive Mark Cisk, who now owns Curtis Trucking, Curtis Brokerage, Allstate Trucking and Allstate Brokerage. All four businesses will be operated separately, under a "family of companies" umbrella. C. C. Curtis remains with the company, returning to the operations area.

Canadian 3PL into Rail
    Clarke, Inc. is expanding its third party logistics management service by acquiring an 80% share in Transci Transportation Systems, a subsidiary of Canadian National Railways. Senior Vice President Doug Pane said Clark has contracts with all major North American railways. Some 95% of the business of the Toronto based firm is shipping across Canada, the United States and Mexico.