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Commentary
Driving Exports
Paul Page |
The best news for the shipping and trading economy didn’t come in the broad industrial numbers that suggest a recovery is approaching or in the jolt U.S.
Bridge Toll
Joseph Bonney |
What's the biggest infrastructure challenge at the Port of New York and New Jersey? Hands down, it's the Bayonne Bridge, but a solution won't come easily, quickly or cheaply.
Time for a New Fairness Doctrine
Lawrence H Kaufman |
There was some interesting colloquy at Daniel R. Elliott’s confirmation hearing to be chairman of the Surface Transportation Board.
Maritime
Rail News
What's Next for YRC
JOC Staff |
YRC Worldwide won an important victory when a majority of Teamsters at its largest subsidiary voted to accept a second round of wage and benefits cuts.
Maritime
Rethinking the Asset Base?
Gary Ferrulli |
To most observers, the current economic conditions for the industry simply reflect dreadful numbers.
Maritime
Trading Risk
Peter Tirschwell |
There can be no doubt that logistics in the U.S. is an internationally driven business. Volumes, services and revenue streams to one degree or another all reflect the U.S.
Trade-In Value
Paul Page |
It’s tempting to use high-minded, vaguely academic language to describe what is happening in the international shipping market, something like “strategic asset optimization” or “yield management.”
Maritime
Container lines
LA’s Wrong Turn
By Peter Tirschwell |
The idea that only employee drivers who could eventually be unionized would be able to reduce truck emissions around seaports was preposterous on its face as well as illegal, and it took the federal c
Maritime
Shipbuilding goes east
Joseph Bonney |
A.P. Moller-Maersk's announcement that it will close its Odensk Steel shipyard in Denmark must have been a wrenching decision at the company's Copenhagen headquarters.
Maritime
Raising the Bar in Contracting
Joe R. Reeder |
In a world mired in economic and financial woes brought about by dubious business practices, Panama has raised the bar by putting forth an airtight contracting process while awarding its largest-ever
Maritime
Downturn’s History
Paul Page |
Maritime
Trucking News
LTL
Recoveries, Past and Future
William B. Cassidy |
Is this an early sign of the long-awaited economic rebound or just a pocket of optimistic exuberance?
Maritime
Veteran of the Jones Act wars
Joseph Bonney |
Philip M.
Maritime
Cash Call for Shipowners
Joseph Bonney |
As container shipping struggles with its worst-ever crisis, some carriers are approaching owners of their ships for help.
Maritime
With Stimulus, Caterpillar Builds Toward Recovery
William B. Cassidy |
Business leaders are keeping a steady drumbeat of support for more transportation funding, but they’re finding it hard to be heard above the din raised by the health care debate.
Virginia is for Bloggers
William B. Cassidy |
To provide "regular insight into the maritime industry and its daily work," the Virginia Port Authority unfurled a blog this week.
Maritime
'Make or Break' Week for Transportation Bill
William B. Cassidy |
Time is running out for those who want a six-year, transformational transportation bill to make it through Congress before the current surface transportation law expires Sept. 30.
Maritime
Twitter Shows Mettle in Michigan
Peter Tirschwell |
Those who want evidence Twitter is worth a tweet can turn to the Michigan Department of Transportation, which used Twitter to communicate with thousands of motorists July 15 after a tanker truck crash
Maritime
No Falloff in China's Import Dominance
Peter Tirschwell |
We’ve been saying for a while that we don’t buy into the story that the sourcing of U.S. containerized imports will be greatly diversified away from China.
Forwarding
The Quest for Green
By Joseph Bonney |
Economists, especially those of the armchair variety, keep yapping about “green shoots” heralding a recovery from the worst global recession since the 1930s.
Maritime
Sail Price
Paul Page |
There are no museums dedicated to freight rates that we know of anywhere in the world, but if you know where to look, you’ll find sobering exhibitions on the shipping economy, and its pricing.
Maritime
Forwarding
Transportation & 'Animal Restoration'
William B. Cassidy |
The Heritage Foundation’s Ronald Utt is going all Jonathan Swift on the Obama administration.
Maritime
Barone 'a Handful' in Court
Joseph Bonney |
George Barone was a government witness, but the 85-year old former mob killer and onetime International Longshoremen's Association official apparently gave prosecutors a rough time during hi
Maritime
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Barone is Back — And Not Happy About It
Joseph Bonney |
Octogenarian labor racketeer George Barone, the government's star witness in a waterfront racketeering trial in 2006, delivered an expletive-filled encore when he took the witness stand in the federal
Maritime
Con-way on the Internet Highway
William B. Cassidy |
Sean Devine of Con-way Freight gives an interesting definition of LTL trucking in his new corporate blog.
Trucking News
LTL
A Triple Vote for No-Brokering Clauses
By Colin Barrett |
Q: I know you’ve addressed this problem before, but here it is again. I am a shipper and tendered a truckload of my product to a broker for final delivery in Canada.
Maritime
Truck brokers
Clarifying Labor: RLA Should Be TLA
By Satish Jindel |
The argument between FedEx and UPS over national labor law has brought great attention to the questions surrounding the Railway Labor Act and the National Labor Relations Act, the United States’
Maritime
Dead in the Water
By Peter Tirschwell |
Every time the future of the struggling container lines has come up in interviews in recent months, the reaction has been the same: Despite the disastrous confluence of the global recession striking a
Maritime
Container lines
Shot Across The Bow
By Joseph Bonney |
After years of fits and starts, ocean carriers finally have warmed to the idea of sharing equipment in chassis pools. Harold Daggett hasn’t.
Maritime
The Container Situation
Peter Tirschwell |
Every few months I touch base with Tom Kim, the Hong Kong-based shipping analyst for Goldman Sachs, who meets regularly with the major Asian container lines.
Container lines
Forwarding
What the Nominees Said
William B. Cassidy |
Three top transportation nominees appeared before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee yesterday. Here are some brief highlights from their testimony.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Will TSA succeed?
Joseph Bonney |
The shipping industry is buzzing over this week's extraordinary announcement by the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement, whose members plan to ask customers to renegotiate recently signed service
Maritime
Shipping's public image
Joseph Bonney |
Shipping is an industry that doesn't spend much time on its image among the general public, and it pays a price for it when there's an accident, oil spill or some other incident that casts the in
Maritime
Carbon Field of Dreams
Ted Prince |
Twenty years ago, American filmgoers embraced the feel-good story of “Field of Dreams.” The movie was filmed in Dyersville, Iowa, where, less than a year ago, one of the largest ethanol re
Maritime
What's a Broker to Do?
Colin Barrett |
Q: A broker paid a carrier for freight moved for one of the broker’s customers. The customer is in financial trouble and is refusing payment to the broker.
Maritime
Truck brokers
China’s Cocoon
Peter Tirschwell |
HONG KONG — The skies last week in Hong Kong and Shenzhen were perpetually the dark blue-gray of an impending downpour, the air thick with humidity as the outer bands of a typhoon swept through
Maritime
Forwarding
Letters to the Editor
JOC Staff |
No New Diesel Taxes
Maritime
Goodbye to Monson Trucking
William B. Cassidy |
When trucking analysts talk about the need to reduce capacity in the industry to bolster rates, revenue and stock value, it's important to remember that "capacity" has a name.
Trucking News
The mob, the feds and the ILA
Joseph Bonney |
Federal prosecutors are ready to have another go at proving links between organized crime and the International Longshoremen's Association.
Maritime
Empties Inflating Asian Port Stats?
Peter Tirschwell |
Asian port throughput figures these days need to be taken with even more than the usual grain of salt.
Maritime
Forwarding
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