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BBC Chartering and Logistic GmbH & Co. KG
JOC Team |
The current financial and economic situation affects all areas of business, all over the world, and the past months have been painful for all of us.
BDP International
JOC Team |
Global financial meltdown. Frozen credit markets. Insolvent blue chips. If the last few months have taught us anything, it’s that it’s no longer business as usual.<br /> <br />
Bridge Terminal Transport Inc.
JOC Team |
The credit crunch, housing market slowdown, increasing unemployment and lackluster GDP results have translated into a slowdown of the intermodal drayage market. The world economy has changed. <br />
British Airways World Cargo
JOC Team |
If the escalating price of fuel was the main talking point for the first half of 2008, it was eclipsed in the second half by the widespread realization of a worsening global economy and the increasing
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
JOC Team |
As the U.S. economy faces historic challenges, railroads will not be immune to the impact of this slowdown.
C.H. Robinson Worldwide
JOC Team |
Discussions to reauthorize the U.S. national transportation law can and should ensure the long-term health of our nation’s freight transportation system.
Canaveral Port Authority
JOC Team |
We have already seen the impact of the faltering economy, both at the national and international levels, on our cargo business, which has traditionally been heavily dependent on building materials to
CargoSmart Ltd.
JOC Team |
In 2009, technology solution providers will continue to introduce increasingly customized applications on top of their existing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products to enable shippers and logistics s
CB Richard Ellis — Global Industrial Services
JOC Team |
Our outlook for 2009 calls for a year of flat or negative growth in industrial real estate markets.
Ceres Terminals Inc.
JOC Team |
“It’s the economy . . .”<br /> <br />
CMA CGM (America) LLC
JOC Team |
What started out as a promising and hopeful 2008 ended with a great deal of surprise and uncertainty.
Colography Group Inc., The
JOC Team |
Expedited transport 2009: The only thing certain is continued uncertainty. If proposed rate increases are an indication, one might well conclude that there is a seller’s market for U.S.
Columbia Coastal Transport
JOC Team |
<p>There is much discussion about short-sea shipping as a viable, environmentally smart intermodal alternative, yet we do not see our segment growing stronger until companies — carriers, shipper
Con-way Inc.
JOC Team |
With a new administration taking over the reins of leadership in Washington, and the global economy entering a period of turmoil unlike anything we have experienced in our careers, the freight transpo
Cooper/T. Smith Corp.
JOC Team |
In recent years, we have observed many changes that have affected our industry, physical as well as market-driven.
Corpus Christi, Port of
JOC Team |
The lifeblood of the world’s economy is trade. Any downturn or slowdown in the global economy will naturally affect ports and their ancillary business partners.
Cosco Americas Inc.; Cosco Container Lines Americas Inc.
JOC Team |
2009 will be a year of many changes, but I think everyone in the ocean transportation industry will be watching the repeal of antitrust immunity in Europe very carefully.
Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
JOC Team |
With the unprecedented financial crisis we’re experiencing, one of the prevailing topics in our industry right now is the critical role that logistics and supply-chain management professionals w
Council on Foreign Relations
JOC Team |
The dramatic melting of the polar ice cap will continue to open the Arctic to resource extraction, fishing, tourism and international shipping.
CSX Corp.
JOC Team |
America’s leaders face difficult challenges to restart the country’s economic engine. Railroads and the broader transportation sector will be critical to the recovery. <br /> <br />
Delaware River Marine Trade Association, Ports of the
JOC Team |
The year ahead will likely see more consolidation among ocean carriers, terminal operators and stevedores.
DHX-Dependable Hawaiian Express; DGX-Dependable Global Express; DAX-Dependable AirCargo Express
JOC Team |
I believe the price of oil will slowly and steadily increase again this year. I also anticipate a shift of freight away from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.<br /> <br />
Distribution-Publications Inc.
JOC Team |
2008 was a dramatic year for the Federal Maritime Commission, and 2009 no doubt will be newsworthy. In April 2008, after Rep. Elijah E.
DP World
JOC Team |
The last year has seen a sea change in global economic fortunes. Clearly, the supply-chain industry is not immune.
E.J. Brooks Co.
JOC Team |
2009 begins on a significant sour note and presents the logistics industry with unprecedented conditions that it must manage its way through.
Emirates Shipping Line
JOC Team |
What the world needs these days are some quality crystal balls, because the ones we have now are terrible.
EMO Trans Inc.
JOC Team |
In the doom and gloom of the recent economic downturn, it seems to be almost too easy to predict a bad year for 2009.<br /> <br />
Eno Transportation Foundation
JOC Team |
When President Bush in November convened the gathering of 20 nations at the G-20 meeting in response to the economic recession, it was the most striking evidence to date that our economy is tightly kn
European Liner Affairs Association
JOC Team |
On Oct.
European Shippers’ Council
JOC Team |
It’s official: The U.S. and German economies are in recession.
Evans Network
JOC Team |
The economic downturn will continue to impact our industry in 2009, so we will see the exodus of independent contractors and small drayage companies. <br /> <br />
Evergreen Group
JOC Team |
Everyone has a role, a responsibility, in the economic crisis that started in the U.S. and that is gripping the world today. And each of us has to face this reality.
Expeditors International of Washington Inc.
JOC Team |
Obviously, the most challenging issue facing our industry in 2009 will be the scanning of freight on passenger aircraft and the myriad questions that will arise out of this decision; that is, who pays
FedEx Trade Networks Inc.
JOC Team |
Changes in the global economy and new supply-chain perspectives will have a significant impact on the global transportation industry in 2009. <br />
Fluor Corp.
JOC Team |
The upcoming year will be one of uncertainty, continued volatility and. most importantly, one of transition as the U.S. moves from a staunchly conservative to more liberal administration.
FreightDesk Technologies
JOC Team |
While 2008 should certainly go down as the “annus horribilis” for the maritime industry in general, I expect a more severe reprise in 2009.
Galborg USA LLC
JOC Team |
The dramatic decline of the world economy has quickly manifested itself in the dry cargo market, with steep declines in charter hire rates and in bulk freight rates.
Galveston, Port of
JOC Team |
In contemplating the most important changes I expect in our industry during 2009, the one word that comes to mind is “recovery.” Perhaps that is a result of what my world has been like ove
Georgia Ports Authority
JOC Team |
In many ways, the past 12 months have been a year of two halves for U.S. ports.
GT Nexus
JOC Team |
The economic turmoil, ironically, presents exciting opportunities for logistics managers because they can press for smarter, on-demand supply-chain management technology on the basis of how much money
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