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Commentary
Capacity Outlook: Grim
Peter Tirschwell |
The outlook for container carriers as described by Alphaliner’s Hua Joo Tan at this month’s Journal of Commerce TPM Asia conference in Shenzhen was nothing if not cheerless.
Maritime
Forwarding
Carrier's 'Act of God' Defense Is All Wet
Colin Barrett |
Q: We’re a trucking company with a big problem.<br /> <br />
Trucking News
Knocking Out Competitors With Mega Ships
Peter Tirschwell |
In his speech on October 11 at our 5th annual TPM Asia event in Shenzhen, Alphaliner’s Hua Joo Tan took square aim at the most obvious explanation as to why the largest container lines are rushi
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
TPM Asia Takeaway
Barry Horowitz |
My 2011 conference year just came to a close with the final sessions of the 5th Annual TPM Asia Conference in Shenzhen, China.
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
Container Ships and Airlines
Paul Page |
The bizarre comparisons between the container shipping industry and passenger airline service are coming too often to ignore.<br /> <br />
Maritime
Container lines
Air Cargo
Forwarding
Growing One Part at a Time
Mario O. Moreno |
Auto parts imports kept expanding to partly offset losses in the overall U.S. inbound trade this past <u><a target="_blank" href="/importexport/us-imports-fell-15-percent-august">August</a></u>.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
US Manufacturer Provides Reshoring Lesson
JOC Team |
A Seattle manufacturer’s decision to expand in the U.S. instead of China provides an excellent case study on the advantages American businesses can find reshoring. <br /> <br />
Industrial Real Estate News
LA-LB's Overlooked Gates to Growth
Bill Mongelluzzo |
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are spending so much money these days to build larger container terminals, on-dock rail facilities and a new bridge in the harbor area that the transportation c
Maritime
Trucking News
Port News
Indexed Gains
Peter Tirschwell |
I am having a hard time understanding why freight rate indices should not be incorporated into each and every ocean carrier service contract out there.
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
Shippers, Carriers
Paul Page |
It may finally be time to say that the fractured relations and frustrated feelings that grew out of the ocean shipping industry’s capacity management fracas of 2009 and 2010 have led to somethin
Maritime
Forwarding
Inside Out Brokerage
Colin Barrett |
Q: I work for a large corporation with several divisions and I manage our trucking division.
Trucking News
Transportation: Leading or Lagging Indicator?
William B. Cassidy |
Is transportation still a leading economic indicator? I’m beginning to wonder. <br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Dangerous Liaisons
Colin Barrett |
Q: We’re a third-party distribution center operator, and often provide cross-dock services to our customers — giving them a facility for interlining freight that is transferred from one ca
Trucking News
Recalling a Recall
Stephanie Nall |
Before the Food Safety and Modernization Act was signed into law at the beginning of the year, the Food and Drug Administration had no legal means to order tainted food off grocery store shelves.<br /
Maritime
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Forwarding
Reviewing Broker Contracts
Robert M. Spira |
In establishing a broker business, every broker will have to learn to manage the details of contracts with motor carriers and suppliers.
Trucking News
Crafting Relationships
Peter Tirschwell |
Michaels Stores had a somewhat different experience in the chaotic first half of 2010 than that of many other large importers.
Maritime
Forwarding
Trade Sense
Paul Page |
Last week was supposed to be the time when adults got back in the room, as far as U.S. trade policy goes. <br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
UPS Raises Retail Stakes
Satish Jindel |
UPS last month introduced “My Choice” to help residential consignees gain control over the inbound delivery of their increasing number of online orders.
Trucking News
Air Cargo
Air Cargo Forwarder News
Canada Strikes Back
Peter Tirschwell |
Canada is <a href="http://www.joc.com/portsterminals/canadian-government-fight-fmc-study-findings"><u>reacting with fury</u></a> to yesterday’s action by the Federal Maritime Commission to launc
Maritime
Rail News
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
North-American rail
Forwarding
Port News
Pricing Value
Andrew Litvin and Michael Scheid |
In 1985, UPS had revenue of $7.7 billion. In fiscal 1986, Federal Express topped $2.5 billion. RPS, which would become FedEx Ground, had just started.
Trucking News
LTL
The Protectionism Equation
Paul Page |
Is there a bright line between fostering local business and trade protectionism? Where does one end and the other begin? <br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Container Shipping in Pirates' Crosshairs
Peter Tirschwell |
Those who ship goods by container have barely been impacted by piracy off East Africa.
Maritime
Forwarding
Container lines
Stand By Your Shipper
Peter Tirschwell |
The story of 2010 for container lines and their customers isn’t just one of carriers reneging on their contracts.
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
Legal Reckoning Ahead For EGT Dispute
Bill Mongelluzzo |
The contentious and sometimes violent dispute between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the EGT grain export terminal in Longview, Wash., may reach an important legal milestone this
Maritime
Forwarding
Longshore labor
Charleston vs. Savannah For Southeast Port Title
Peter Tirschwell |
It’s out in the open now. South Carolina is now officially opposed to deepening the Savannah River. I see this as a big deal with huge long-term implications for where cargo moves in the U.S.
Maritime
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Forwarding
Port News
A Hazardous Disconnect
Jeffrey G. Tucker |
Ten years after the September 11 terror attacks, the United States has a spectacularly inexcusable problem regulating motor carriers that haul hazardous materials. The U.S.
Trucking News
Rival Carriers Ready Response to Daily Maersk
JOC Team |
While most shippers applaud the call by Maersk Line CEO Eivind Kolding for a change in the way the container industry conducts business, rival carriers see it as a campaign by the world’s larges
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
Boxing Up the Supply Chain
John D. Boyd |
The prospect of cutting hundreds of millions of dollars out of your freight bills is enough to drive some big shippers into mergers. Just ask International Paper.<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Infrastructure and Investment
Paul Page |
The echo chamber of infrastructure advocacy debate opened up a bit last month, and it’s important that the businesses in the transportation and trade world pay attention. <br /> <br />
Taxing Whose Containers?
Peter Tirschwell |
One could toil away for years in the shipping industry without hearing more than a few passing references to the Harbor Maintenance Tax.
Maritime
Forwarding
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Remains of the Dray
Colin Barrett |
Q: We’re a motor carrier, and recently subbed out a load to another carrier.
Trucking News
Divided We Stand
Ted Prince |
Living in Virginia, the biggest sports news I read often revolves around the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
Ports Gain Clean-Truck Visiblity
Bill Mongelluzzo |
Although the trucking industry and environmental interests are claiming victory following a federal court of appeals
Maritime
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Steinke Explains Port's Success
Bill Mongelluzzo |
The willingness of the Port of Long Beach, its harbor commissioners and its customers to adapt to containerization and intermodalism have helped to make the port the second busiest container gateway i
Maritime
Forwarding
Busman's Holiday
Barry Horowitz |
Summer is just about over and hopefully you’ve had a chance to get some down time: some activity that gets you away from your desks, telephones, Blackberries, iPhones, laptops, whatever type of
Maritime
Capacity Squeeze?
Peter Tirschwell |
It’s hard to imagine in looking at the reports of slack demand and plentiful capacity on the trans-Pacific over the summer that a squeeze on shipping space is imminent, but that possibility is l
Maritime
Two-Track Economy
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Fasten your seatbelts, as that non-vessel operator Bette Davis famously said, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. <br /> <br />
Shipper-3PL Liability: Paid in Full?
Colin Barrett |
Q: My company ordered a truck — four, actually — from a third party.<br /> <br />
Trucking News
Capping Pallets, Creating Capacity
William B. Cassidy |
When is a pallet more than a pallet?<br /> <br />
Trucking News
Truckload
3PL Rallying Cry
Daniel Gardner |
Soon after President Obama in his 2010 State of the Union Address challenged the U.S.
Maritime
Forwarding
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