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Commentary
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
Holly Jolly Retail Season
John D. Boyd |
Either holiday shoppers are so tired of bad weather that they are flocking into stores for relief, or we are about to see the strongest yearend retail activity in years.<br /> <br />
Seeing Red Over Grey Boxes
Gary Ferrulli |
When the European Shippers’ Council in November said it was forming a working group to determine if the “grey box” concept could alleviate container equipment shortages and reduce ca
Maritime
Forwarding
Waterfront Family Feud
Joseph Bonney |
Family connections between mobsters and International Longshoremen’s Association officials and members were a central theme of recent hearings by Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.
Reality Shows
Paul Page |
The end of the peak shipping season used to leave time for shippers and carriers alike to sit back and reflect on the year just ended before easing into the one coming up.
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
Limitations Vary on Older Freight Bills
Colin Barrett |
Q: I’ve declined 2-year-old original collect freight bills (six bills totaling $24,645) from a major railroad for shipments from Canada to a point in the upper Midwest U.S. based on 49 U.S.C.
Rail News
Intermodal Opportunity
Peter Tirschwell |
It makes complete sense that conversion of truck shipments to rail would have started earlier in the economic cycle and made greater progress in western North America, where freight travels over thous
Rail News
Norfolk Southern Outbids Jets?
Paul Page |
The shipping and sports worlds have long been intertwined — you could field some pretty good teams from the ranks of vice presidents at shipping and logistics companies — but generally the
Rail News
Tunnel Vision
Theodore Prince |
In 1941, Woody Guthrie took a temporary job with the Interior Department’s Bonneville Power Administration to promote the benefits of cheap electricity by building dams.
Rail News
Dick Lawrence, Journalist
R.G. Edmonson |
The newspaper world in Washington was better off when Richard A. Lawrence decided not to pursue a career in electrical engineering.
Building Tigers
Peter Tirschwell |
It’s rarely pleasant to watch U.S.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Energy Leaders
Paul Page |
Plenty of U.S.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Sealed and Delivered, But Who’s Signing?
Colin Barrett |
<strong>Q:</strong> I’ve read your previous articles about cases where shippers pay a broker, the broker doesn’t pay the carrier, and the carrier then demands payment direct from the shipp
Trucking News
Truck brokers
Factoring in Whom to Pay
Colin Barrett |
Q: We have a carrier who is using a factoring company for its freight bills. We, of course, ordinarily remit payment to the factoring company, not the carrier.
Pricing for Profitability
Satish Jindel |
The less-than-truckload industry is facing numerous challenges to achieve growth and profitability. The most common concerns cited are overcapacity and too many large competitors.
Trucking News
LTL
No Consensus
Paul Page |
There’s a broad consensus in the U.S. transportation world that there is, well, broad consensus in the U.S. transportation world on the need for infrastructure investment. <br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Crisis Planning
Peter Tirschwell |
Potential flashpoints are on the horizon in 2011, whether from the CSA 2010 driver safety regulation or the container lines’ hoped-for withdrawal from chassis services.
Maritime
Forwarding
OPIC and the Deficit
John D. Boyd |
A funny thing happened on the way to writing several big deficit-cutting reports – the authors suggested slicing a trade finance program that helps shrink the deficit.<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Markey's 100 Percent Solution
R.G. Edmonson |
No one can say that Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., is soft on security.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Digging Deeper on Dumping
Alice Alexandra Kipel |
With President Obama’s national focus on exports, U.S. exporters need to beware the risks of “dumping” their products in foreign markets.
Maritime
Forwarding
Transforming Pacific
Barry Horowitz |
It’s amazing how much can happen in three short weeks – or three long ones if you’ve been traveling across the Pacific Rim from Portland, Ore., to Shenzhen to Hong Kong to Singapore
Maritime
Asia Looks Within
Peter Tirschwell |
If the momentum China has shown coming out of the financial crisis signals a new Asia-centric economic order, the emergence of the intra-Asia container market is one important marker of that developme
Maritime
Forwarding
Shipping Free
Paul Page |
After nearly two years of tortured debate in the shipping world over freight transport prices, you can forgive carriers across the modes if they’re a bit surprised over the latest trend in holid
Demurrage and Detention — Charges on Exported Containers
Colin Barrett |
Q: I thought the Aug. 23-30 column interesting enough to offer a comment. As a freight forwarder, I’ve been in the same situation as the party asking your advice.<br /> <br />
Maritime
Shipping For Free
Paul Page |
Many freight transportation carriers say they've learned a lesson from the cheap shipping that nearly killed off large swaths of the industry, and their retailing customers have learned a lesson as we
Double-Payment Due? Follow the Paper Trail
Colin Barrett |
Q: My company is involved in a situation you’ve covered before, wherein we as a transportation broker contracted with a carrier to transport a shipment.
The Next Intermodal Innovation
Tom Finkbiner |
If you attend the Intermodal Association of North America convention in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this week, you’re likely to hear plenty about current intermodal affairs.
Rail News
Trust and Certify
Susan Kohn Ross |
Addressing last month’s Western Cargo Conference, Customs Commissioner Alan Bersin said some surprising things.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Seller’s Market
Peter Tirschwell |
<em>GUANGZHOU, China</em> — Based on the information I’m seeing about the container capacity outlook, if I were a logistics director I would be preparing my chief financial officer for add
Container lines
Leaders Needed
Paul Page |
President Obama looked properly chastened, even shaken, the day after this month’s elections provided such a stunning rebuke to his administration. <br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
ABF's 'Lost' Profit
William B. Cassidy |
Teamsters at ABF Freight System rejected a 15 percent wage cut in May, convinced the company could improve its bottom line without labor concessions. <br /><br />
LTL
What Shippers Want
Gary Ferrulli |
I’ve read several articles on H.R. 6167, the House bill designed to re-regulate the ocean carrier industry.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Supply Chain Oil Slick
Jonathan Wright |
In the near future, reasonably priced oil may be a thing of the past.
Learning From Germany
Chris Kuehl |
Nobody doubts the U.S. must get better at exporting. Although there is “generic” support for the concept in Congress and from the public, when it comes to specifics, the U.S. struggles.
Forwarding
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
FedEx and Jim Oberstar
Paul Page |
You won’t be hearing many elegies from Memphis lamenting Rep. James L. Oberstar’s departure from Congress. <br /><br />
Truth in Billing? Far From It
Colin Barrett |
Q: I’ve read your past articles on the practice of “off-bill discounting,” and I know you have addressed the requirement that carriers show a notation on the bill “that a reduc
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Substandard Security
Paul Page |
In a meeting almost two years ago with several shipping security experts, including a couple of government officials and air cargo executives, several of them pointed to the gap between regulations in
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Letters - November 8, 2010 Edition
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<strong>Regulation Overload</strong><br /> <br />
Banking on Capacity
Peter Tirschwell |
Spot container rates are trending downward. The post-holiday slack season is starting, and even rail intermodal traffic seems to be losing some of its steam.
Forwarding
Intermodal Imagined
Theodore Prince |
For years, transportation industry leaders have questioned the degree to which government really understands freight. Recently, Sen.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
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