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Size, Weight and Truck Pricing
Colin Barrett |
Q: As I’m sure you’re aware, the National Classification Board has approved a change in the classification of clothing from class 100 to a range of classes, from 70 to 400, based on densit
Trucking News
LTL
Time, Money
Paul Page |
The history of shipping, in whatever form of transportation you might mention, has been all about speeding things up. <br /> <br />
Maritime
No, Virginia …
Ted Prince |
One of the storied exchanges in American journalism took place in the New York Sun in September 1897 when eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon sought the truth about Santa Claus.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Texas Draw
Peter Tirschwell |
It may be new information for some reading this column that Houston is the largest port in the U.S., and has been for the past 14 years. <br /> <br />
Knowledge Is Power
Jeffrey Blum |
One could be excused for thinking the start of 2011 provides an opportunity to sit back and reflect upon another exhaustive and challenging year for those working in the shipping industry. <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Slow Burn
Stephanie Nall |
Fresh off its lengthy and secret study of container availability, the Federal Maritime Commission has a new investigative target in mind: slow-steaming carriers.<br /> <br />
FMC: 40 Years of Lessons Learned
R.G. Edmonson |
We tend to look at the history of U.S.
Maritime
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Ports Digging Deeper
David B. Sanford II |
On Jan.
Cold Water on the Recovery
Barry Horowitz |
Welcome to the first year of the second decade of the 21st century. Happy New Year to you all.<br /> <br />
Forwarding
Transloading, Part II
Peter Tirschwell |
Thanks to the recession, transloading is rapidly evolving from a tactic shippers used to avoid high rail rates for intact containers into a strategic tool in importers’ supply chains.
Forwarding
Credit Terms: Lost in Translation?
Colin Barrett |
Q: We’re a maritime freight forwarder that does business with a client who imports from Hong Kong under credit arrangements.<br /> <br />
Maritime
Words, Actions
Paul Page |
To say infrastructure and trade have never been as prominent in a presidential State of the Union address as they were last week would be an understatement.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Speed Kills
JOC Team |
We live in a world of immediacy. We want our news now. The Internet delivers. Shippers want their goods now.
Rail News
Shielding the Shipper in an Ex-Works Sale
Colin Barrett |
Q: I enjoy reading your columns, but I have a question about the one published in the Nov. 22, 2010, issue, in answer to the maritime freight forwarder who wrote about the Aug.
Maritime
Surging Transload
Peter Tirschwell |
As the smoke clears from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, it’s possible to start drawing conclusions about how the transportation environment has changed.
Forwarding
Securing the Food Chain
Susan Kohn Ross |
The lame-duck session of the 111th Congress produced a number of remarkable pieces of legislation, including a new food safety law that will impact international shippers.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Leaning to Growth
Paul Page |
Under normal circumstances, the last three months of any year follow a predictable pattern: the buildup to a peak, followed by the steady slide back to a quiet holiday period.
Trucking News
Name Game
Joseph Bonney |
Anyone who reads indictments of organized-crime figures must wonder: Where do these guys get their nicknames?
Corporate Canada Comes Shopping
William B. Cassidy |
Cities and towns along the northern U.S. border have long drawn Canadian shoppers seeking lower-priced U.S. goods. Now Canadians are shopping for companies. <br /> <br />
Trucking News
For Maximum Protection, See Section 7 of B/L
Colin Barrett |
Q: A shipment is to go from us to the customer of our customer, with a 3PL doing the actual carrier routing. Our terms of sale for any and all such shipments are f.o.b. origin, freight collect.
California Dreaming
Mike Jacob |
Driven by a late-year crest of exports, California’s undermined trade competitiveness, amplified by the recession, ended in 2010.
Maritime
Intermodal Inflection?
Ted Prince |
Differential calculus defines an inflection point as a point on a curve where the curvature changes sign.
Rail News
Resolutions
Gary Ferrulli |
If 2009 was the year of the economic disaster and 2010 was the year of recovery and conflict, what will the ocean shipping industry call 2011 a year from now? <br /> <br />
Floating Rates
Peter Tirschwell |
A year ago, a dark cloud was descending on the trans-Pacific shipping market as the realization set in among shippers that capacity was disappearing rapidly and the traditional rules of the game for g
Trucking News
Air Cargo Carriers News
Forwarding
Shipping’s Paradox
Paul Page |
As we launch into 2011, shippers and carriers face twin challenges that are not merely contradictory but also, it turns out, plainly paradoxical. <br /> <br />
Forwarding
Mica Wrestles TIGER
John D. Boyd |
As new chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Rep.
Maritime
Trucking News
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Air Cargo
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Uncertain Times
Peter Tirschwell |
“Although everyone seems to agree conditions are improving, it’s difficult to forecast a continuous upward trend.” <br /> <br />
Game-Changing Rail Strategies
Tom Finkbiner |
For America and Americans, the future has always been about the hope of a better tomorrow, which means two things: solving today’s problems and articulating a vision for tomorrow.
Rail News
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Recovery Rate
Paul Page |
A year ago in this space we noted the major question hanging over the world of trade and transportation was capacity — the availability of space on ships, trucks and aircraft. <br /> <br />
Signs of the Times
William B. Cassidy |
An anti-terrorism campaign along interstate highways may have inspired the letter bombs sent to Maryland's governor and transportation secretary. <br /><br />
Bayonne Bottleneck
Joseph Bonney |
Container ship lines were happy to see the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey decide <a target="_blank" href="http://www.joc.com/maritime/ny-nj-port-authority-opts-raise-bayonne-bridge"><u>how
Maritime
Forwarding
24 Hours Short
Peter Tirschwell |
The new year marks the start of the European Union’s version of the 24-hour advance manifest container security rule, making this a good point to look at the divergent paths cargo security regul
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Paying for Benefits
Asaf Ashar |
The departure of Rep.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Credit Terms Apply Across the Board
Colin Barrett |
Q: Somebody e-mailed me this question, and I figured I’d throw it your way because I cannot find the legal response. I know what sounds logical, but sometimes the laws defy logic.<br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Hiding in Plain Sight
Paul Page |
Welcome to the year of economic recovery. We know; 2010 actually was the year of recovery in global trade and economic demand.
We’re From the Gov’t., And ....
John D. Boyd |
Sometimes the process behind the news deserves a mention, as when the Department of Justice finally told rail materials supplier L.B. Foster last week it could acquire Portec Rail Products. <br />
The Lost Decade
Barry Horowitz |
Believe it or not, the end of the first decade, the first 10 percent, of the 21st century is upon us.
Earmarks – Good, Bad or Ugly?
R.G. Edmonson |
Earmarks are like cholesterol, there are good and bad varieties of both. The difference is that bad congressional earmarks can’t be treated with Lipitor. <br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Liability Claim Stuck in a Deep Freeze
Colin Barrett |
Q: We purchase a latex liquid from a major chemical manufacturer in drums. It’s ordinarily used for paint, but we use it in our metal casting business for molds.<br /> <br />
Trucking News
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Answer Man
Paul Page |
We’re ending a year that began with many questions. Some were answered, of course, but many were simply left hanging, and others came up along the way.
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