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Commentary
The Quest for Green
By Joseph Bonney |
Economists, especially those of the armchair variety, keep yapping about “green shoots” heralding a recovery from the worst global recession since the 1930s.
Transportation & 'Animal Restoration'
William B. Cassidy |
The Heritage Foundation’s Ronald Utt is going all Jonathan Swift on the Obama administration.<br /> <br />
Barone 'a Handful' in Court
Joseph Bonney |
George Barone was a government witness, but the 85-year old former mob killer and onetime International Longshoremen's Association official apparently gave prosecutors a rough time during hi
Maritime
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Barone is Back — And Not Happy About It
Joseph Bonney |
Octogenarian labor racketeer George Barone, the government's star witness in a waterfront racketeering trial in 2006, delivered an expletive-filled encore when he took the witness stand in the federal
Con-way on the Internet Highway
William B. Cassidy |
Sean Devine of Con-way Freight gives an interesting definition of LTL trucking in his new corporate blog. <br /> <br />
Trucking News
LTL
A Triple Vote for No-Brokering Clauses
By Colin Barrett |
Q: I know you’ve addressed this problem before, but here it is again.<br /> I am a shipper and tendered a truckload of my product to a broker for final delivery in Canada.<br />
Truck brokers
Clarifying Labor: RLA Should Be TLA
By Satish Jindel |
The argument between FedEx and UPS over national labor law has brought great attention to the questions surrounding the Railway Labor Act and the National Labor Relations Act, the United States’
Dead in the Water
By Peter Tirschwell |
Every time the future of the struggling container lines has come up in interviews in recent months, the reaction has been the same: Despite the disastrous confluence of the global recession striking a
Container lines
Shot Across The Bow
By Joseph Bonney |
After years of fits and starts, ocean carriers finally have warmed to the idea of sharing equipment in chassis pools. Harold Daggett hasn’t.<br /> <br />
Maritime
The Container Situation
Peter Tirschwell |
Every few months I touch base with Tom Kim, the Hong Kong-based shipping analyst for Goldman Sachs, who meets regularly with the major Asian container lines.
Container lines
Forwarding
What the Nominees Said
William B. Cassidy |
Three top transportation nominees appeared before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee yesterday. Here are some brief highlights from their testimony.<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Will TSA succeed?
Joseph Bonney |
<p>The shipping industry is buzzing over this week's extraordinary announcement by the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, whose members plan to ask customers to renegotiate recently signed service
Shipping's public image
Joseph Bonney |
Shipping is an industry that doesn't spend much time on its image among the general public, and it pays a price for it when there's an accident, oil spill or some other incident that casts the in
Letters to the Editor
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No New Diesel Taxes<br /> <br />
China’s Cocoon
Peter Tirschwell |
HONG KONG — The skies last week in Hong Kong and Shenzhen were perpetually the dark blue-gray of an impending downpour, the air thick with humidity as the outer bands of a typhoon swept through
Maritime
Forwarding
Carbon Field of Dreams
Ted Prince |
Twenty years ago, American filmgoers embraced the feel-good story of “Field of Dreams.” The movie was filmed in Dyersville, Iowa, where, less than a year ago, one of the largest ethanol re
What's a Broker to Do?
Colin Barrett |
Q: A broker paid a carrier for freight moved for one of the broker’s customers. The customer is in financial trouble and is refusing payment to the broker.<br /> <br />
Truck brokers
Goodbye to Monson Trucking
William B. Cassidy |
When trucking analysts talk about the need to reduce capacity in the industry to bolster rates, revenue and stock value, it's important to remember that "capacity" has a name.
Trucking News
The mob, the feds and the ILA
Joseph Bonney |
Federal prosecutors are ready to have another go at proving links between organized crime and the International Longshoremen's Association.
Empties Inflating Asian Port Stats?
Peter Tirschwell |
Asian port throughput figures these days need to be taken with even more than the usual grain of salt.
Maritime
Forwarding
A Logistics Scammer's Ponzi Scheme
William B. Cassidy |
Glyn Richards wasn't in the same league as Bernie Madoff, but the Ponzi scheme he ran under the cover of All Freight Logistics did as much damage to its victims as Madoff's much larger scam.<br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Shrinking SKUs
Joseph Bonney |
Friday's Wall Street Journal has a front-page story that homes in on a key issue for retail supply chains.
Roads to Afghanistan
Joseph Bonney |
Think you have a tough logistics job? Imagine running a supply chain to a landlocked, mountainous country where people keep trying to blow up your personnel and cargo.
Maersk follows the money
Joseph Bonney |
You could see this one coming: A.P Moller-Maersk's chief executive <a href="http://www.joc.com/node/412010" target="_blank"><strong>was quoted as telling a Danish newspaper</strong></a> that the comp
Maritime
Forwarding
Bloggers Track Battle Over Transportation Bill
William B. Cassidy |
Transportation bloggers — especially advocates of high-speed rail and transit — may like Rep. James L.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Who's Driving the Transport Bill?
William B. Cassidy |
The Obama administration and House transportation leaders both grabbed for the wheel of the surface transportation bill yesterday.<br /><br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Highway Bill's Funding Pothole
William B. Cassidy |
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is expected to release its version of the next highway bill in a matter of minutes ... or hours ... or perhaps tomorrow.
AARP's Transport Wish List
William B. Cassidy |
You know the debate over the next highway bill is getting serious when AARP chimes in. It just goes to show that transportation affects everyone — and every stage of life. <br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Universities' supply chain rankings
Joseph Bonney |
<p><br /> It's a little early for pre-season football forecasts, but AMR Research has issued a ranking that is sure to generate lively debate among supply chain professionals.<br /> <br />
Container fleet efficiency
Peter Tirschwell |
It is a commonly held notion that container lines are inefficient in the management of their container fleets.
Blogging Security
William B. Cassidy |
Not to be outdone by the Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security now has its own blog.<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Protection in the Electronics Age
James Giermanski |
Where is my product? When will it arrive? What documents do I need to have for Customs? What’s an MID, an ELVIS, the AES, the e-manifest, ACE or ABI? <br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Stuck in Traffic
Paul Page |
Even the president of the United States can’t escape the United States’<br /> jammed highways. <br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Data Overload
Peter Tirschwell |
When importers rallied last fall in a surprise and ultimately unsuccessful revolt against the 10+2 security rule, it was not just a one-dimensional protest against perceived excessive container securi
Hardly Free
Paul Page |
Theo Zwygers of LyondellBasell, a shipper of chemicals for plastics, made a critical point at the North American Rail Shippers annual meeting when he noted of his transportation use, “It doesn’t come
Rail News
Still the Shippers’ Voice?
Lawrence H Kaufman |
Don’t be surprised if one or more railroads drop their membership in the National Industrial Transportation League.
Rail News
Paying for Infrastructure: A Modest Proposal
R.G. Edmonson |
I recently sat through a House hearing in which members of Congress spoke at length about the need to come up with “creative” ideas to fund highway infrastructure. Creative what?
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Finding Holes in Export Controls
William B. Cassidy |
Are U.S. export controls keeping dangerous goods and technologies out of the hands of hostile powers?<br /> <br />
Maritime
Forwarding
Never to Meet
Gary Ferrulli |
A recent comment from the chairman of the Asian Shippers’ Council recalls many discussions I’ve heard in my 35 years in the industry over the conflict between service providers and their customers.
Forwarding
Happy Birthday, Bar Code
William B. Cassidy |
The bar code is a small thing, but it’s changed our lives in a big way. <br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
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