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Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.As oil approaches the $100 per barrel mark, businesses mu

As oil approaches the $100 per barrel mark, businesses must shift from dealing with something that w

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Several potential issues are looming over the global trad

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.While shippers and transportation operators are focused a

With Brian Maher selling his family terminal company last year and stepping back from day-to-day ope

The primary cause of loss of cargo in transit is not fire, flood, hurricanes, accidents or cargo the

Poaching: "to trespass on another's property in order to take fish or game." Historically, punishmen

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Q:Do you think the changes in the procedures of t

The year saw important changes among logistics industry leaders, both in the private sector and in g

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Is talk of a recession sustainable? There, we''ve gotten

Many people assume that because the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point was founded in 1942,

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well prese

How do those of us whose livelihoods are fundamentally tied to international trade come to terms wit

It has been a tectonic shift in the intermodal landscape that has produced many tremors and one bona

If it is true, as former Intel CEO Andy Grove has said, that "only the paranoid survive," there are

The investigators have be-come the investigated. State authorities in New York and New Jersey are lo

Unless one believes in alchemy - the ability to turn dross into gold - it is obvious that needed tra

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Q:I have a question regarding freight classificat

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The most important word in the Federal Motor Carrier Safe

From the perspective of the trade community, it was a truly grotesque spectacle of policymaking when

Busy with other things on the first weekend after Thanksgiving, most Americans probably missed the s

Many believe the most pressing task facing U.S. transportation is to replace and expand our national

The shipper we spoke with recently has had a persistent, seemingly intractable logistics problem tha

Many of us recall Ronald Reagan during a presidential debate saying, "There you go again." Those wor

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Q:We filed a claim against a motor carrier''s BMC

Juergen Sorgenfrei grew up 40 kilometers from the border between East and West Germany, and during h

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.When looking for insight into bold new transportation ini

A recent change to the terms and conditions typically offered by trade warehouses could put importer

Just when U.S. exporters are better positioned then they have been in years because of the plummetin

Many who work in the surface freight transportation industry spend a lot of time traveling, and it h

Enrollment in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential program is just getting under way,

Buried in the costs of operating vessels employing U.S. citizen crews are protection-and-indemnity i

In my apparently na?ve, New Yorker's conception of Washington, D.C., when the champion of a fledglin

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.There is something that sounds distinctly right and pract

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Q:The weighing and inspection process seems to ha

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Thanks for your outstanding article on the Northwest Pass

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Studies following the debate over risk of terrorist attac

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.I hesitate to say that Congress should devote "far more m

Unfavorable yet far-reaching consequences of 100 percent screening on the shipper community seem

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Shippers and transportation carriers may not like congest