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Commentary
Checking Shippers' Credit
Joseph Bonney |
Prudent shippers check their transportation and logistics service providers for financial soundness.
Stocking Up?
Peter Tirschwell |
With the faintest glimmers of daylight — one dares not call it dawn — appearing on the economic horizon, the transportation industry is pinning its hopes on a single indicator as the one with the grea
Freight Claims and Unpaid Charges
Colin Barrett |
<strong>Q: I work as an account manager at a logistics company</strong> with several clients with management contracts for our services.<br /> <br />
Secure Visibility
Paul Page |
Most experts will tell you visibility is the key to supply chain security.
The Truck Driver Problem
William B. Cassidy |
As long as I've been covering transportation, the alleged truck driver shortage has been an issue for motor carriers and shippers alike. <br /> <br />
Mexico Raises Stakes on Trucking
Joseph Bonney |
The long battle over allowing Mexican trucks to haul freight throughout the U.S. has taken an ominous turn with Mexico's announcement that it slap retaliatory tariffs on 90 U.S.
Pricing Battleground
Peter Tirschwell |
Will the shift in market share from West to East Coast ports and price competition from long-haul trucking force railroads to price West Coast container and intermodal cargo more competitively?
Rails to the Rescue
John D. Boyd |
It may be hard to envision now, as top rail lines rapidly cut capacity, but there was a time when the first place a worried president of the United States turned to stabilize the economy was the major
Opportunities Still There
Gary Ferrulli |
The economic doom and gloom that has spread across transportation and global trade is drowning out an important reality: Today’s tough times offer important opportunities for improving the suppl
Bills of Lading and Section 7
Colin Barrett |
<strong>Q: I have a QUESTION pertaining to the non-recourse clause on bills of lading.<br /> <br />
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Real Economy
Paul Page |
Because the global economy right now, once you step back from the disarray, could best be described as something like a bad joke, it might take a joke to point out what’s happened and how a reco
China Logistics
Paul Page |
China says logistics industry there up 15.4 percent in 2008 in value, down from 19.9 percent in 2007. Business volume up 19.5 percent after 26.2 percent in '07.<br /> <br />
Virginia is for Port Lovers
Joseph Bonney |
If you thought port privatization was as dead as the rest of this economy, think again.
'Coal, Grain and Autos'
Peter Tirschwell |
Tim Rhein, the former CEO of APL, tapped into a deep reservoir of angst in the transportation industry concerning railroads. <br /> <br />
Rail News
Gleason & The Green
William B. Cassidy |
There'll be no St. Patrick's Day parade of containers in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey. <br /> <br />
Assessing Improper Accessorials
Colin Barrett |
<strong>Q: I recently signed on a new less-than-truckload carrier</strong>, and they have been billing me accessorials based on what their billers read or think they read on the bill of lading.
Carriers’ Balancing Act
Satish Jindel |
Transportation industry leaders need to take bold and immediate action to manage an unprecedented decline in demand that threatens their survival and the viability of their customers’ supply cha
Assessing Improper Accessorials
Colin Barrett |
<strong>Q: I recently signed on a new less-than-truckload carrier, and they have been billing me accessorials based on what their billers read or think they read on the bill of lading.</strong>
Gallows Humor
Peter Tirschwell |
<em>“The most positive thing I have heard is how pessimistic everyone is.” </em><br /> <br />
Selling Recovery
Paul Page |
Many of the ocean carriers and third-party logistics companies attending the 9th Annual Journal of Commerce Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference last week said improving retail consumer sales are their b
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Lawrence H Kaufman |
Back in the bad old days before U.S. railroads were relieved of the most onerous of government regulations, shippers had little to choose from when selecting a carrier.
A Puzzling Port Report
John D. Boyd |
With things comparatively quiet on the port trucker front in Los Angeles-Long Beach, the issue is starting to pick up steam in East Coast ports.<br /> <br />
Tick, Tick, Tick ...
Peter Tirschwell |
It’s getting late in the eastbound trans-Pacific.
Maritime
Friendly skies?
BY PETER TIRSCHWELL |
If you're like most people, air travel comes with a twinge of the jitters, if not more. Anyone who denies the latent fear of flying need only look at the 24/7 coverage of the Feb.
Air Cargo
100, Plus
Paul Page |
A friend once told us that one advantage of growing older was that you get to see how things turned out.<br>
Q&A: Trying to Avoid a Trip to the Cleaners
Colin Barrett |
Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.<br><br>Q:<br>
Trucking News
LTL
Market-share Doesn't Guarantee Profitability
JOC Team |
<em>Letter to the Editor, Feb. 23, 2009</em><br /> <br />
Maritime
Container lines
Three and Out
BY JOSEPH BONNEY |
If the International Longshoremen's Association contract negotiations were a football game, it would be early in the first quarter, no score.<br /> <br />
Maritime
Q&A: Who Has Rights to a Claim?
Colin Barrett |
Q:<br>I have always assumed that any party that has an equitable interest in particular cargo could pursue a cargo damage claim against a carrier.<br>
East vs. west
BY LAWRENCE H KAUFMAN |
Standard gauge for U.S. railroads is 4 feet, 8 inches, and all major carriers are standard gauge. The distance between the rails is about the only thing that's standard in the industry.<br />
Rail News
Ignorance-driven Policy Sinks U.S.-flag Shipping
JOC Team |
In reading recent comments about what earmarks Republicans want removed from the current stimulus package, I was taken aback by the fact that GOP leaders oppose a budgeted item to build a new Coast Gu
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Forwarding
Idle Cars
Paul Page |
The tracks between Boston and Washington make up the busiest rail corridor in the country, largely b
The truth about 10+2
BY PETER TIRSCHWELL |
One of the useful things about the passage of time is that it has a way of bringing out the truth (as Alex Rodriguez learned last week).
Maritime
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Forwarding
Nervous times
BY JOSEPH BONNEY |
Even if your job appears halfway safe -- a big if for many people -- today's economy provides much to be nervous about.<br /> <br />
Making Up for Carrier''s Mistake
Colin Barrett |
Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.<br><br>Q:<br><br>Can you help with this? It''s an ongoing proble
Beltway Reading
JOC Team |
The nation is paying a lot of attention to President Obama's Cabinet selections.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Recovered
Paul Page |
Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.<br><br>Looking across the grim economic landscape of 2009, the q
What a start!
BY GARY FERRULLI |
Most Januarys are quiet; cargo interests are just waking up after the holidays in the U.S. and Asia. Then the pace picks up, and the world gets back to normal.
Maritime
Forwarding
Market-share Madness
JOSEPH BONNEY |
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Maritime
Container lines
Forwarding
Eastern challenges
BY PETER TIRSCHWELL |
Last week in this space we made the point that railroads, in stark contrast to truckers, have years
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