The Chandler, Ari.-based freight broker and exclusive agents’ use of MacroPoint allows third party access to load status, avoiding the need to hire additional staff.
Logistics software provider Descartes’ solution enables U.K.-based Graff Diamonds to integrate EU duty relief program with its customs warehouse procedures.
The airport handled 2.1 million tons of cargo for the first half of 2015, up 0.6 percent from the same period last year.
The port reported a total throughput of 23.37 million tons for the first half of 2015, up 1 percent from the same period the previous year.
“When I was in Maryland we had a different word for that. We didn’t call it misclassification, we called it workplace fraud,” Perez said in an interview on C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” series.
Ocean carriers Maersk Line, MSC, CMA CGM, COSCO and MOL announced general rate increases.
A maritime financial tsunami is building, and in different ways, it will affect container lines, ports, and shippers. This commentary focuses on how ports may be affected, since ports are the vital link between liner carriers and their customers. Ports face a big decision with regards to the mega-ships coming on line and whether to invest in upgrading their […]
Container Analytics with Ben Meyer Port Canaveral, located about halfway down the Atlantic Coast of Florida, this month opened its brand new container terminal. In doing so, however, it became the fourth container-handling port facility on the East Coast of an already crowded state and an even more crowded Southeast U.S. container port market. […]
On Second Thought with Tom Nightingale Recently, a headline, “Intermodal Surpasses Carload for the First Month on Record,” caught my attention and I thought, “Wow, for what might be perceived as a slow-moving industry, there is definitely change going on around us every day.” The change is evident in what we have seen in […]
Successful transportation benchmarking depends on proper alignment with a company’s strategy goals.
With tighter ship sulfur emission caps, scrubbers and heavier fuel may become attractive.
Air Transport with Jon Ross With the U.S. Justice Department now querying the domestic airlines about passenger pricing, what’s that saying about history repeating itself? Well, this isn’t exactly replication, but the seemingly ongoing collusion/price-fixing/antitrust pattern of investigations by the department against the airline industry. Not even a decade ago, the Justice […]
L.A. terminal maximizes capacity with on-dock rail, automated stacking, and “auto-strads.”
In China, two important metrics continue to rise: workers’ wages and the value of goods it exports to the rest of the world. These figures put context behind the rise of the “China, plus one” strategy, where multinational companies continue to use the country’s manufacturing prowess but reduce their dependence on its workers […]
In the June issue, I penned a commentary about the labor model of app-based concierge services, especially those with a delivery component. (See “Will Uber be the next Teamsters target?”) Most of these start-up businesses in the sharing economy rely on people acting as independent contractors, who provide their own vehicles and take […]
One of my favorite people in the transportation industry used an analogy recently that warmed my prog rock heart. He said there was a steady drumbeat of people—both carriers and analysts—talking about a shortage of truck drivers as if it was an unalienable truth. That to suggest anything else would be outrageous. […]
Managers are shifting their attention from macroeconomic trends to more basic issues, such as improving performance and growing their business. To do that, it always helps to build up one’s knowledge base.
Reestablishing diplomatic relations affirmed with reopening embassies, but issues remain.
ILA, USMX agree to begin talks to extend the U.S. East Coast dockworkers’ contract.
Ag shippers suggest ways to improve container flow through the country’s marine terminals.
