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Natural Gas Changing Transportation Industry

Ted Prince

In the current season of the AMC hit series “Mad Men,” protagonist Don Draper heads to a Rolling Stones concert in an attempt to use one of their songs in a commercial.

Colin Barrett

Q: I read a few months back about your opinion regarding carriers rebrokering shippers’ freight to other carriers.

Peter Tirschwell, Senior VP Strategy

Below are a few tweets from the JOC Container Shipping Conference last week sent out via Linked In (Twitter is blocked in China), including some expanded commentary.

Joseph Bonney

If supply chain managers are starting the summer in a cranky mood, it’s easy to see why.

Joseph Bonney

There’s talk about a future container hub in an unlikely place – Reykjavik, Iceland.

Colin Barrett

Q: We’re a broker, and we use another broker for one of our customers, who was an incumbent when we acquired the account.

Barry Horowitz

We’re never quite sure here in the Pacific Northwest just when summer will arrive — or whether it will at all.

Joseph Bonney

Debt collectors on the docks are reputed to be aggressive, and there’s a hint of that in the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s dunning of a longtime tenant that’s behind on

Peter Tirschwell, Senior VP Strategy

Meetings with several container lines last week in Europe yielded an unexpected takeaway.

LTL Carriers in It for the Long Haul

Michael D. Scheid

The less-than-truckload landscape changed in the past couple of decades as mergers, acquisitions and company failures shifted market share.

On Double-Brokered Loads: The Devil You Know — And Don’t Know

Q: I have a question on our liability for a double-brokered load.

Peter Tirschwell, Senior VP Strategy

Non-vessel-operating common carriers generally have it good: Non- or light-asset based, agile in responding to customers’ needs and often consistently profitable, their presence in the market ha

Peter T. Leach, Senior Editor

JOC reporters face a delicate balancing act in covering annual contract talks between ocean shippers and carriers.

Gary Ferrulli

A story in a non-maritime-related publication caught my eye the other day: April 26 marked the 56th anniversary of the sailing of the Ideal X from Newark, N.J., on a trip to Houston with 58 containers

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Commentary

Natural Gas Changing Transportation Industry

Commentary: Absent Authority, Is Rebrokering Illegal?

News and Views From JOC Shipping Conference

ILA May Give Shippers the Summertime Blues

New Route From China?

Four Times the Brokerage Fun

The Ups and Downs of the Container Shipping Industry

The FAPS Flap

Carriers Sense a Return to Black in Near Future

LTL Carriers in It for the Long Haul

On Double-Brokered Loads: The Devil You Know — And Don’t Know

2012 Trans-Pacific Service Contracts Squeeze NVOs

Shipper-Carrier Saber Rattling Continues

Container Industry at a Crossroads: Reflections of Time and Tide

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