Commentary

 
What does a fine Bordeaux or Riesling wine have to do with Chinese solar panels?
 
Q: My company has a number of construction sites around the country.
 
The BMC-32 Cargo Liability Endorsement has been gone for more than a year, extinguished in March 2011 by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
 
Dr. Mike Walter – successful businessman, educator and former LB Port Commissioner – was honored recently by the International Seafarers Center for his contributions to the maritime industry.
 
Logistics and transportation professionals expect emerging markets to contribute 36 percent of their global revenue on average by 2017, more than double the share today, according to the Business Perspectives on Emerging Markets 2012-2017 Report by Global Intelligence Alliance.
 
Gasoline has been a U.S. automotive fuel mainstay for more than 100 years, while diesel has been the primary fuel for heavy equipment for more than 60 years. The U.S. fuel distribution infrastructure has been built out to support the country’s demands for these fuels that, for the most part, are conveniently available.
 
As the U.S. begins to emerge from four years of economic downturn, there is a view that seaports aren’t as exciting as they used to be.
 
In publishing, as in logistics, it’s all about adapting to change.
 
For what seemed like months, we read nothing but the updates to the ILA-management drama playing out on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts.
 
Q: I got your name out of a magazine my soon-to-be ex-husband gets, and I’m hoping you can help me with a really bad problem I’ve run into in connection with my divorce proceedings.
 
Q: I’ve been reading in a lot of your columns lately about problems that seem to arise out of the shipper hiring one motor carrier to handle a load and that carrier brokering the load out to ano
 
Logistics companies may dominate the Top 50 Global Transportation and Logistics Companies, but when considering profit margins, railroads top the list.
 
The United States faces serious challenges to its infrastructure, and has for years.
 
Last week, my JOC colleagues and I unveiled the agenda for the March 2-6, 2013, TPM conference in Long Beach.

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