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FastShip's $35 Million Wake
Joseph Bonney |
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Remember FastShip?
Shippers’ Trust
Paul Page |
A letter from more than 30 shipper groups sent last week to House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee James L.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Forwarding
Disconnecting the Dots
Peter Tirschwell |
Is the day coming when the U.S. will need to get back into the business of subsidizing container shipping to support exports? Change may be in the wind.<br /> <br />
Forwarding
Offsetting Dispute Sets Off Shipper
Colin Barrett |
Q: When a carrier sells its accounts receivable to a bank, can the shipper still offset unpaid (but acknowledged valid by the carrier) claims against the freight invoices due?<br /> <br />
Container lines
Forwarding
Rockefeller’s Must-See TV
John D. Boyd |
To get the unvarnished view of a top Senate committee chairman venting his frustration, to see how serious he is in threatening a long-running fight to toughen rail regulations, you might need to see
North-American rail
Rocky Road to a Transport Plan
John D. Boyd |
Before President Obama can achieve his vision of a new world for transport infrastructure, he may first have to accommodate Sen. Jay Rockefeller. <br /><br />
Rail News
Risk Vs. Reward
Theodore Prince |
Last month’s column (“Debatable Ideas,” Aug. 2) generated significant feedback.
Letters - September 13, 2010 Edition
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<strong>Clean Trucks, Again </strong><br /> <br />
Plotting a Sea Change
Gary Ferrulli |
It’s been a perplexing and exciting year for global trade.
The Case for a Bid
Inam Iyoob, Brent Hudspeth and Kyle Alexander |
Most people in the work force will not look back fondly on last year, unless they were supply chain professionals responsible for procuring transportation services.
Football and Shipping
Paul Page |
Shippers develop all kinds of strategies to cope with seasonal shipping trends, but one we had not heard about was the impact of college football on coal shipping; another is the conflict between ener
What Constitutes a Contract?
Colin Barrett |
Q: I have written to you a few times in the past and value your professional advice. I seek it once more. <br /> <br />
The Coastal Debate
Peter Tirschwell |
Big questions surround the future of the East Coast as a port range as we finalize the agenda for the The Journal of Commerce’s 5th Annual East Coast Maritime Conference, to be held Sept.
One-Stop Drop
Paul Page |
It may be time to close the door to the one-stop shop.
Speed Bumps For Chassis
Joseph Bonney |
Container lines have surprised even themselves <a href="http://www.joc.com/maritime/unraveling-services-waterfront"><strong>by moving so quickly</strong></a>, after years of dithering, to quit providi
Maritime
Trucking News
Container lines
Stacking Forecasts
Tom Finkbiner |
The Association of American Railroads delivered half-year results for rail volumes recently, so it probably isn’t too soon to forecast intermodal volume for the year, and to take a deeper look a
Rail News
Revisiting COGSA vs. Carmack
Colin Barrett |
Q: Can you clarify why the Supreme Court ruled the way it did in the so-called “K” Line case?<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Security’s Unending Line
Peter Tirschwell |
With the election and football seasons upon us, it must be time for political football — and the container is being used as the ball.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Tracking Real Innovation
Ed Hamberger |
Old myths die hard. Case in point, the myth that U.S.
Rail News
Clean Trucks II
Paul Page |
The celebratory comments from the Port of Los Angeles seemed surprisingly muted late last month considering the victory port executives and their supporters in labor and environmental circles won in c
Trucking News
Uncharted Economy?
Paul Page |
It's somewhat heartening to hear from Christina Romer, the departing chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, that she believes freight rail volume numbers are a great indicator of re
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Katrina Plus Five
Joseph Bonney |
<br /> When out-of-town journalists parachute into New Orleans for a quick story on Hurricane Katrina’s impact, they tend to make a beeline for the city’s Lower Ninth Ward.<br />
DOT’s Transport Policy Trail
John D. Boyd |
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was touring the Federal Railroad Administration's Transportation Technology Center complex this summer in Pueblo, Colo., when his group approached a three-foot ratt
Maritime
Trucking News
Rail News
Air Cargo
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Slow Truck To China
Joseph Bonney |
If you have problems with slow freight transportation, remember that someone else always has it worse. <br /> <br />
Trucking News
Letters - August 23-30th 2010 Edition
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<strong>A World Without Stimulus</strong><br /> <br />
The route to ‘Renaissance’
William B. Cassidy |
Can trucking companies recovering from a devastating recession achieve profits that are sustainable, creating the conditions for a trucking renaissance? <br /> <br />
Trucking News
Paying Demurrage in an Ex-Works Sale
Colin Barrett |
Q: Last December, my company handled the forwarding of 55 FEUs from the U.S. West Coast to Australia.
Free Rides Aren’t Free
Peter Tirschwell |
Back in the 1960s when containerization was in its infancy, shipping executives had grave doubts about containers.
Maritime
Trucking News
Forwarding
Slow Steam Recovery
Barry Horowitz |
As we move into the last week of August, the U.S. importing, exporting and international shipping sectors should be buzzing, almost frantic with activity. <br /> <br />
Maritime
Forwarding
Who’s Restocking?
Paul Page |
Everyone in transportation is talking about retail inventories these days, but what’s clear from the latest earnings reports from the nation’s largest retailers is that the companies are a
Maritime
Forwarding
Will Marine Highways Save US Shipbuilding?
R.G. Edmonson |
The Department of Transportation’s announcement last week to advance their marine highways initiative was arguably the biggest single boost the fledgling industry has had since everyone started
Maritime
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Trucking In the City
William B. Cassidy |
We all know trucks bring us good things, but are trucks good things? Not if they make deliveries in the early morning or at night, some New Yorkers think. <br /><br />
Trucking News
When Doing What’s Right Collides With the Law
Colin Barrett |
Q: We arranged with a broker to have a shipment picked up at our vendor and delivered to us about two months ago. This was shipped collect as instructed.<br /> <br />
Trucking News
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Doom and Gloom, Round 2
Peter Tirschwell |
The first half was a crackling good start to the year, so why all the worry? <br /> <br />
Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
Producing Hope
Paul Page |
Was the peak season good for you?
Forwarding
Mistaken Identity
Susan Kohn Ross |
In May, I described the latest “twists and turns” in corporate identity theft in a piece called <a target="_blank" href="http://www.joc.com/commentary/reality-checkpoint">"<u>Reality
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Shortage Claim Falls Short
Colin Barrett |
Q: I’m a 3PL and I’ve attached a copy of an Over, Short and Damaged Report that was sent back to me from a consolidator.<br /> <br />
Trucking News
Investment Time
Stephanie Nall |
When the global economy crashed two years ago, the cold chain didn’t go with it.
Maritime
Cool Cargo News
Sourcing Gets Caliente
Peter Tirschwell |
In observing that Mexico is “sliding dangerously downward,” The Economist in July summed up the killings, lawlessness and fear that pervades the country amid the government’s war on
Forwarding
Courage
Paul Page |
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said something very sharp and direct the other day about the prospects for transportation funding, even if it was only direct by Washington standards of political p
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
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