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FreightWaves Staff Saturday, April 18, 2015

Latin American focus

Trade Trends with Taneli Ruda    Never in history has trade expanded at the rate it is today. People are doing business with each other from every corner of the globe. Trade is on an exponential upward curve, growing as it has for decades at 6 to 7 percent per annum.    The reasons for this are multifold: enlightened and […]

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FreightWaves Staff Saturday, April 18, 2015

Infrastructure determines economy’s structure

Strategic View with Walter Kemmsies    Problems with aging and potentially failing U.S. infrastructure are being increasingly publicized and debated. The debates have been prolonged partly because estimates of expenditures needed to bring infrastructure back to a state of good repair are in the neighborhood of 10 percent to 33 percent of GDP. As the debate continues, the infrastructure continues to crumble and […]

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FreightWaves Staff Saturday, April 18, 2015

Express carriers to gain from TPP

   Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement are entering the homestretch, although whether a deal gets completed by the end of the year remains an open question. These types of multilateral talks are complex, take years to put together and frequently seem to encounter some sort of last-minute stumbling block. And Congress still […]

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Chris Dupin Saturday, April 18, 2015

Survey report is not privileged

   Channel Construction chartered a barge on three occasions to Northland Services between 2010 and 2012. Northland used it as a platform to generate electricity and refrigeration of fish products.    In the summer of 2011, the barge began developing a starboard list, which William Tonsgard Jr., Channel’s president, was concerned might be caused by […]

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FreightWaves Staff Saturday, April 18, 2015

Ford customizes railcars for Transit van

   The full-size Transit cargo van posed a logistics challenge for Ford Motor Co. when production began last summer at the company’s plant in Kansas City. The van has a high roof that allows delivery drivers to stand upright in the vehicle, but that prevented the vehicle from being loaded in traditional, two-story auto railcars.  […]

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FreightWaves Staff Saturday, April 18, 2015

Of canals and centrifuges

Breaching a monitoring system provides a bloodless means to attack a system. Especially if the attack is supported by false data being introduced into the system to make those monitoring it believe everything is absolutely normal.

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