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Destroyed Goods, No Calls
Colin Barrett |
Q: We are a broker who hired a carrier that had an accident in a truck hauling six pallets of merchandise for our customer.
Lower supply, higher demand
Janet Plume |
<p class="MsoPlainText">The global recession has deeply impacted the breakbulk industry, leaving no sector untouched despite some positive trends.
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Buffetted by Shipping?
Paul Page |
Warren Buffett had something surprising to say about shipping and transportation today in this <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/32870258"> <strong><u>interview</u></strong></a> on CNBC marking the sor
Post-mortem on ILA contract vote
Joseph Bonney |
<p>Atlantic and Gulf ports are still buzzing over this month's rejection by ILA delegates of a two-year contract extension -- and are wondering what it means for next year.<br />
Peaks and valleys
Joseph Bonney |
This is the annual peak season for speculation about how strong the fall peak season will be for imports for the holiday sales season.<br/>
Ocean or Air? Who Has the Upper Hand?
Paul Page |
For the past year the conventional view has been that shippers were flocking away from air cargo for the more friendly pricing in ocean transport, particularly as container shipping rates plunged to h
Speaking Clean
Paul Page |
<p class="MsoPlainText">One labor leader quoted in these pages last week summed up the gathering controversy over regulation of harbor trucking by saying the debate is over an “arcane, 30-year-o
Trucking News
Going With the Flow
Jon DeCesare |
The warehousing and distribution industry is taking bold steps to respond to changing economic and business circumstances.
Logistics Resiliency
Alan M. Field |
When supply chain professionals met in Denver last October for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' annual conference, the mood could hardly have been gloomier.
Security’s Shifting Tide
Peter Tirschwell |
As the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks came and went last week, a question came to mind: Is government policy toward container shipping finally shifting from an attitude of “what should
Maritime
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Shipping’s Rich Get Richer
Peter Tirschwell |
When anyone talks about the “transfer of wealth” today, they usually are describing how the rich are getting richer while everyone else stagnates or gets poorer.
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Profiting Through Innovation
Ted Prince |
Chris Anderson’s book, “Free: The Past and Future of a Radical Price,” describes a sustainable business model built on distributing free products, usually through the Internet.
Eight Years Later
Paul Page |
It's tempting to see the recent hijacking of a Russian cargo ship in the waters near western Europe and its abrupt rescue more than a week later as an isolated mystery, one of the maritime world's man
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Building Cultural Capital
Ron Cain |
Companies are increasingly taking a close look at the supply chain expenses that can mean the difference between ending the year in the red or black.
Economic stimulus -- or not
Joseph Bonney |
Sometimes a person has to wonder whether the U.S. is basing its economic future on museums and coffee shops.
Will the ILA truce hold?
Joseph Bonney |
The truce between the top two officers of the International Longshoremen's Association will be tested this week in Orlando, where the ILA's 200-member wage scale committee is expected to receive water
Coming Clean
Peter Tirschwell |
The two are moving forward in lock-step: an intensifying campaign led by Los Angeles Mayor and former union leader Antonio Villaraigosa to alter federal transportation law to pave the way for port tru
Maritime
Pre-emption’s Premise
Fritz R. Kahn |
The controversies stemming from the clean-trucks programs at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have focused renewed attention on the doctrine of pre-emption, the principle in which federal law s
Rail News
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Watch What You Eat
Caroline Smith DeWaal and David W. Plunkett |
<p class="MsoPlainText">The food safety system in America is broken.
Driving Exports
Paul Page |
The best news for the shipping and trading economy didn’t come in the broad industrial numbers that suggest a recovery is approaching or in the jolt U.S.
Changing Demand
Joseph Bonney |
Want to know what’s really happening in the economy? Check your car tires.
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Bridge Toll
Joseph Bonney |
What's the biggest infrastructure challenge at the Port of New York and New Jersey? Hands down, it's the Bayonne Bridge, but a solution won't come easily, quickly or cheaply.<br /> <br />
Time for a New Fairness Doctrine
Lawrence H Kaufman |
There was some interesting colloquy at Daniel R. Elliott’s confirmation hearing to be chairman of the Surface Transportation Board.
Rail News
Rethinking the Asset Base?
Gary Ferrulli |
To most observers, the current economic conditions for the industry simply reflect dreadful numbers.
Maritime
What's Next for YRC
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YRC Worldwide won an important victory when a majority of Teamsters at its largest subsidiary voted to accept a second round of wage and benefits cuts.
Trade-In Value
Paul Page |
It’s tempting to use high-minded, vaguely academic language to describe what is happening in the international shipping market, something like “strategic asset optimization” or “yield management.”
Maritime
Container lines
Trading Risk
Peter Tirschwell |
There can be no doubt that logistics in the U.S. is an internationally driven business. Volumes, services and revenue streams to one degree or another all reflect the U.S.
LA’s Wrong Turn
By Peter Tirschwell |
The idea that only employee drivers who could eventually be unionized would be able to reduce truck emissions around seaports was preposterous on its face as well as illegal, and it took the federal c
Shipbuilding goes east
Joseph Bonney |
A.P. Moller-Maersk's announcement that it will close its Odensk Steel shipyard in Denmark must have been a wrenching decision at the company's Copenhagen headquarters.
Raising the Bar in Contracting
Joe R. Reeder |
In a world mired in economic and financial woes brought about by dubious business practices, Panama has raised the bar by putting forth an airtight contracting process while awarding its largest-ever
Downturn’s History
Paul Page |
Trucking News
LTL
Recoveries, Past and Future
William B. Cassidy |
<blockquote> <div>Is this an early sign of the long-awaited economic rebound or just a pocket of optimistic exuberance?</div> </blockquote><br />
Veteran of the Jones Act wars
Joseph Bonney |
Philip M.
Maritime
Cash Call for Shipowners
Joseph Bonney |
As container shipping struggles with its worst-ever crisis, some carriers are approaching owners of their ships for help.
Maritime
With Stimulus, Caterpillar Builds Toward Recovery
William B. Cassidy |
Business leaders are keeping a steady drumbeat of support for more transportation funding, but they’re finding it hard to be heard above the din raised by the health care debate.<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Virginia is for Bloggers
William B. Cassidy |
To provide "regular insight into the maritime industry and its daily work," the Virginia Port Authority unfurled a blog this week.<br /> <br />
'Make or Break' Week for Transportation Bill
William B. Cassidy |
Time is running out for those who want a six-year, transformational transportation bill to make it through Congress before the current surface transportation law expires Sept. 30. <br /> <br />
Twitter Shows Mettle in Michigan
Peter Tirschwell |
Those who want evidence Twitter is worth a tweet can turn to the Michigan Department of Transportation, which used Twitter to communicate with thousands of motorists July 15 after a tanker truck crash
No Falloff in China's Import Dominance
Peter Tirschwell |
We’ve been saying for a while that we don’t buy into the story that the sourcing of U.S. containerized imports will be greatly diversified away from China. <br /> <br />
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Sail Price
Paul Page |
There are no museums dedicated to freight rates that we know of anywhere in the world, but if you know where to look, you’ll find sobering exhibitions on the shipping economy, and its pricing.
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