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Commentary
Job Search Engines
Satish Jindel |
It is great news for the nation’s millions of unemployed or underemployed people to find our elected officials now are focused on challenges faced with the high level of unemployment, which is s
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
The ILWU and Panama
Bill Mongelluzzo |
Thursday’s announcement that the Panama Canal Pilots Union voted to affiliate with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union sent shivers down the spines of employers on both the East and
Maritime
Transport Plans Ring Hollow
JOC Team |
The logic behind the two competing proposals for a long-term transportation spending plan sound pretty good unless you go outside the Beltway’s infrastructure circles. <br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Whose Economics?
Paul Page |
It’s tempting to look at Maersk Line’s announcement of daily service with delivery guarantees within the tight parameters of the shipping line’s own operations and economics, and its
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
Gaps in Margins
Peter Tirschwell |
One of my curious discoveries when researching a column recently on the growing market share of non-vessel-operating common carriers in the U.S.
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
Infrastructure Party Poopers
Colin Barrett |
Q: Can you help me understand what’s going on in Washington these days?<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
AAPA Protests Get Creative
Bill Mongelluzzo |
The annual conference of the American Association of Port Authorities in Seattle isn’t just an ideal occasion for top port executives to discuss successes and challenges. <br /> <br />
Maritime
Trucking labor
Longshore labor
Labor, Pacific Ports and Bob McEllrath
Bill Mongelluzzo |
One of the most memorable images from <u><a target="_blank" href="/portsterminals/ilwu-protest-closes-port-seattle-tacoma">last week's highly heated and sometimes violent actions</a></u> by Internatio
Shipping's New Sales Force
Gary Ferrulli |
A number of friends have asked recently, “What’s it like, working that side of the street?” That “side of the street” is the non-vessel-operating side after 27 years with
Forecasting Change
Paul Page |
We all should have projected that forecasting would be at the forefront of the debates over the future of business processes between shippers and carriers. <br /> <br />
Maritime
Forwarding
The Dark Side of Show Business
Colin Barrett |
Q: My company, a 3PL provider, arranged for less-than-truckload service for a customer. This customer prints materials for trade shows and promotional marketing campaigns.
Trucking News
LTL
Carrots, Earmarks & Infrastructure
John D. Boyd |
Will President Obama offer any carrots or does he just keep swinging a stick to pressure budget-cutting lawmakers for new transportation spending?<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Liquidated Changes
Susan Kohn Ross |
Customs has a storage problem, and how it is adapting will dramatically affect importers who file paper entries. <br /> <br />
Chicken Politics
Stephanie Nall |
U.S. poultry exporters had their best pay period ever during the first half of the year when meat valued at $2.16 billion was shipped overseas. <br /> <br />
Cool Cargo News
The Terrible Day
Helen Atkinson |
When I woke on September 11, 2001, I faced what I regarded as the world’s most tedious commute, from my home in Brooklyn Heights to The Journal of Commerce’s Newark, N.J., office — a
Budget Decisions Churn Waters
Evelyn M. Suarez and J. Forbes Thompson |
The battle over the U.S. debt will affect Americans and government spending for a long time, and will mean major sacrifices in many programs.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Higher Stakes
Paul Page |
President Obama’s call last week for simple, straightforward extensions of national transportation programs was well reasoned and measured, and a desperately worrisome window on the state of pol
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
The Price of No-Shows
Colin Barrett |
Q: Now that ocean carriers are implementing so-called no-show fees when a container misses its booked sailing, we’re faced with a problem when a rail or motor carrier delivery arrives late at a
Trucking News
Rail News
Container lines
Sustainable Growth
Cheryl Koshuta |
President Obama said it best: “To attract new businesses to our shores, we need the fastest, most reliable ways to move people, goods and information.”<br /> <br />
Uncommon Carriage
Peter Tirschwell |
In a recently released report drawing from its deep well of data on non-vessel-operating common carriers, Journal of Commerce sister company <u><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cmasolutions.com/PIE
Maritime
Forwarding
Tracking Tons & Truckers
William B. Cassidy |
How tightly is growth in trucking employment tied to rising freight tonnage? Not as tightly as you might think, based on a review of U.S. payroll and tonnage data.<br /> <br />
LTL
Trucking labor
See You in September
John D. Boyd |
After the storms of August – political, financial and most recently natural – things may seem to be getting back to normal. It won’t last.<br /> <br />
Maritime
Trucking News
Rail News
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Farmers Lead Export Charge
Bill Mongelluzzo |
Farmers may have to lead the way to achieving President Barack Obama’s goal of doubling exports by 2015.<br /> <br />
Maritime
Rail News
Forwarding
North-American rail
Shake, Rattle and Roll On
John D. Boyd |
Tuesday’s Virginia earthquake again tested the nation’s infrastructure, which came through pretty well. But it also reminded us of vulnerabilities.<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
North-American rail
ILA's Quiet Leader
Joseph Bonney |
John Bowers enjoyed a good, rousing speech and could deliver one himself when the occasion demanded. But that wasn’t his preferred style.<br /> <br />
Maritime
Forwarding
Longshore labor
Don't Be a Victim
Michele Greene |
No amount of diligence can guarantee protection against cargo theft or double brokering, but you can minimize your risk by carefully screening the carriers with which you do business.
Trucking News
Trucking's Mixed Bag
Michael D. Scheid |
The trucking industry was quick to rebound in 2010 after a major falloff in revenue and profit during 2008 and 2009.
Trucking News
What (or Who) Drives Capacity?
William B. Cassidy |
Capacity is king in trucking today, and the truck driver is the coin of the realm. <br /> <br />
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Rocking the Boat
Susan Kohn Ross |
The more things change, the more they stay the same, the old axiom goes. But is it true?
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Washington's Red Tide
Barry Horowitz |
Like many men of a certain age, I have a monthly night out with the guys, usually to catch up with each other, play a few hands of cards and generally whine about the state of the economy and the worl
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Hey, Shipper, Speak Up
Don Pisano |
Since the late 1980s, when personal computers started appearing on every worker’s desk, all industries have capitalized on the opportunities technology offers us to do more with less.
Criminal Minds
Colin Barrett |
Q: I’ve lately been getting quite a few e-mails from a collection agency that says it’s working for one of our major parcel carriers.
Trucking News
Sold on Efficiency
Paul Page |
Ocean carriers and retailers had plenty to say about the outlook for the global economy in releasing their financial reports for the most recent quarter, but they sounded for all the world like they w
Maritime
Container lines
In the Keystone State, It’s Trucking or ‘Fracking’
William B. Cassidy |
Many truckload carriers are pumping money into driver recruitment and training programs and still say they’re having trouble finding enough drivers.
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Navigating a Changing World
Alan Amling |
Famous mathematics professor John Allen Paulos is quoted as saying, “Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.” Major world
UP's Grand Circle
Paul Page |
Vacations are supposed to take you away from your job, but when you work in transportation and design a family road trip in the American Southwest the shipping business can turn up in surprising ways.
Rail News
Fueling Efficiently
Paul Page |
There was an interesting and telling contrast last week at the meeting point between business and politics.<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Shipment
Colin Barrett |
Q: We sent a shipment intended for a customer in the Dominican Republic to a Florida freight forwarder hired by our customer. The value was $10,000.<br /> <br />
Trucking News
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Climate for Change
Peter Tirschwell |
What interest does a beneficial cargo owner — the large shipper of goods through the supply chain — have in the question of limiting greenhouse gases from container ship engines?
Maritime
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Early Warning on Economy
Joseph Bonney |
Weeks before Washington politicians took government dysfunction to a new level and the Eurozone crisis threatened to engulf Italy, a respected forecasting firm signaled an economic slowdown ahead.<br
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
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