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WASHINGTON - Crunch time is approaching for the world's two biggest trading entities, the United Sta

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.A couple of months ago, the Homeland Security Department

That's the way friends of William Robinson, the former principal owner of DHL Airways, now Astar Air

That's the way friends of William Robinson, the former principal owner of DHL Airways, now Astar Air

LOS ANGELES -- The relationship between shipping lines and harbor trucking companies has always been

UPS move will open door to reformI am somewhat surprised that the JOC did not completely inv

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Have you read the fine print in our key industry benchmar

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Automatic radio frequency identification technology offer

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Q:Our company consolidates LTL shipments into ful

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.When my book "Transportation, Logistics and the Law" was

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Can you connect the dots? On July 2, Brotherhood of Maint

It is not every day in the world of international trade logistics, let alone every week, month or ev

I recently participated in Stanford University's Annual Global Supply Chain Symposium, sponsored by

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Q:As a food service distributor, much of our comp

In support of Title XIIn response to recent criticism by the government's General Accounting

The letter from David E. Wirsing of the Airforwarders Association ("IATA's time has come and gone, J

Dear Sir:Surprisingly there are some elements in the airline transportation industry that be

Ask just about anyone who really knows the container shipping business if the vision behind the 1998

When shippers file an insurance claim, they can expect to receive a notice from their insurers, rese

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.From an initial offering of one program in 1947 to a high

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Q:I read with interest your Nov. 11, 2002, column

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.In his commentary, "Carmack Rolls in His Grave" (June 30)

Carriers well-served in New York harborThank you very much for your editorial "Threat or Exp

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Just how much is corporate America spending to enhance se

The democratization of the Internet in the mid '90s fueled a wave of e-commerce portals that aimed t

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Contract carriage - Long-term dedicated services.

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.I''ve been in the railroad industry for 26 years (I''m cu

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Q:We ship a bulk product via pneumatic truck to a

As policymakers move to identify strategies for dealing with the post-Saddam Iraq, many experts beli

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.It ain''t gonna last. Call me a pessimist but I d

The other day Shaul Cohen-Mintz received an envelope from the New York Police Department, containing

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.In 2001, I was at a meeting of logistics professionals wh

Buying a pair of sneakers last weekend, I was amazed by two things - the shoelaces, nearly as long a

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Q:Our freight payment company recently either wen

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.The trucking industry and the railroad industry called a

LONDON - Transport companies are in pole position to exploit the European Union's expansion to the f

No region of the world has a greater need to seize the opportunities of global trade liberalization

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.If Sen. Edward W. Carmack, author of the Carmack Amendmen

Peter Tirschwell's column on duty drawback (May 26-June 1, page 6) notes that while Customs' retrenc

There are certain legitimate security risks: stowaways that enter the U.S. inside containers and the