Investment in optimization systems drives widening revenue gap between truck brokers. By Eric Johnson Brad Jacobs knows a high-growth industry when he sees one. The chief executive officer of XPO Logistics, an expanding truck brokerage that also provides third party logistics services, Jacobs invested in the firm after a track record of […]
Carriers want a single transpacific discussion agreement. The major container shipping companies in the transpacific want to create a single organization in which they can discuss both U.S. exports and imports, rather than having separate discussion agreements for the trade in each direction.
Related Magazine Content U.S. Customs cuts red tape Japan has mutual recognition agreements for Authorized Economic Operator programs with six economies: New Zealand, the United States, European Union, Canada, South Korea and Singapore. There are 496 companies in Japan that have achieved AEO status, according to the Japanese Embassy in Washington, compared to […]
Last month I described how U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Canada Border Services Agency have partnered on a pilot project to scan cargo at the Port of Prince Rupert for U.S.-bound ocean containers transported by intermodal rail through International Falls, Minn., rather than when they cross the land border. At CBP’s […]
American shippers may be preoccupied about how the expanded Panama Canal, increasing fuel costs and finding properly trained labor will impact their supply chains in the near future, but they should be careful not to lose sight of where they should focus their energies by the end of this decade. China is expected […]
By Eric Kulisch Delta Air Lines, the world’s largest passenger airline, and fast-growing Emirates of Dubai exemplify the different attitudes towards freighter aircraft among passenger airlines that also haul cargo. Atlanta-based Delta has no freighter aircraft and quickly decommissioned more than 10 jumbo jet freighters it took possession of when it acquired Northwest […]
TOTE, Inc., parent company of Sea Star Line and Totem Ocean Trailer Express, said last month it will build two 3,100-TEU containerships for the Puerto Rico trade that will be fueled with liquefied natural gas (LNG). It also has options to build three more similar ships for “additional domestic service.” TOTE emphasized the […]
By Randy Mullett vice president of government relations and public affairs, Con-way Inc. With the long-anticipated MAP-21 Surface Transportation bill signed into law, and the reauthorization of funding for the Federal Aviation Administration secured, 2012 saw multi-year negotiations, campaigns and debates around transportation finally come to a resolution. And with November’s elections behind us, a […]
Back before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a shipper that sourced its goods from a far-flung destination really only had to consider a couple things about its supplier.
By Alan Spear, TAPA Americas’ former chairman and U.S. director of cargo security loss control for AIG Global Marine It’s easy to argue that the Internet and other forms of electronic communication have made things faster, easier, and more efficient, but to those of us worried about supply chain security the ability to duplicate, […]
Pfizer uses sophisticated IT, fewer 3PLs to deliver products efficiently worldwide. By Chris Dupin Pfizer makes some of the most important and advanced life-saving drugs in the world and is redesigning its global supply chain and delivery system to achieve agility in an increasingly complex and competitive global market. The industry’s traditional approach to managing freight […]
In an effort to put a travel expenses scandal behind it, the Port of Oakland has taken steps to be more transparent. The scandal led to the departures of Executive Director Omar Benjamin, and James Kwon, maritime director, in November and December, respectively. The port proclaimed its latest actions demonstrate “a new […]
By Walter Kemmsies, chief economist, Moffatt & Nichol Scenario-based planning is a better approach than the more common practice of extrapolating from past trends, and planning increasingly expensive capital improvements based on anticipated capacity requirements that may not pan out…
Airlines ground some cargo planes to ride out capacity and rate turbulence. At the beginning of December, officials at Singapore Airlines Cargo said goodbye to one of their 13 Boeing 747-400 freighters, taking it out of the sky with the hope to keep it grounded for at least a year, possibly two years.
Luc Portelance, president of the Canada Border Services Agency, took the stage at U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s annual Trade Symposium in late November with Deputy (Acting) Commissioner David Aguilar to discuss progress with the bi-national Beyond the Border Initiative. Beyond the Border is a multi-pronged effort to harmonize border management and push […]
U.S. government’s FCPA guidance deemed helpful, but far from perfect in terms of clarifying the punitive law. On Nov. 23, the global retailing giant Walmart suspended a number of India-based executives as part of an internal probe into bribery allegations there.
Related Magazine Content Steel-wheeled pipeline One of the fastest growth areas for SkyBitz, a provider of satellite and cellular-based technology that tracks mobile assets such as truck trailers and intermodal containers, is “frac tanks,” General Manager Henry Popplewell told American Shipper at the National Industrial Transportation League and Intermodal Association of North America joint […]
U.S. oil fields create big business for railroads, specialized truckers and project 3PLs. By Eric Kulisch The giant oil-shale and gas field in North Dakota and Montana is proving to be a bonanza for energy companies and the U.S. economy in terms of lower fuel costs for users, but it’s also creating […]
Langh develops specialized container for the steel industry. The success of containerization and intermodalism is based on the fact that there are millions of identical shipping containers which can be easily shared by shippers and carriers anywhere and hold a wide variety of cargo.
