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Expeditors Earnings Surge

Thomas L. Gallagher |

Expeditors International earned $74.3 million in the third quarter on revenue of $1.4 billion. The 1

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AMB Buys Paris Acreage

William Hoffman |

San Francisco-based commercial property developer AMB Property bought 128 acres for a new logistics

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FedEx Settles NLRB Charges

Thomas L. Gallagher |

FedEx Ground agreed Tuesday to settle a series of charges brought by the National Labor Relations Bo

LA-Long Beach OK Truck Plans

Bill Mongelluzzo |

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Having approved plans to replace more than 16,000 old, polluting trucks with l

UPS Freight to Guarantee Shipments

UPS Freight will guarantee at no extra cost on-time performance for its less-than-truckload customer

Port Box Traffic Falls

Major U.S. container ports saw traffic drop in September for the second straight month compared with

Greenbrier Profits Grow

Thomas L. Gallagher |

The Greenbrier Companies showed significant improvement in earnings in the quarter ending Aug. 31. <

Pay-As-You-Go Ecology

William Hoffman |

A company in Denver is offering online retailers and customers a new way to calculate and offset the

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Europe Ports Face Rail Strike

Bruce Barnard |

French and German railway workers are threatening a strike that would disrupt container traffic acro

Tacoma Begins TWIC Sign-Up

Bill DiBenedetto |

Port of Tacoma employees, longshore workers, port truckers and other port workers this week will be

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Import Safety Bill Threatens Brokers

R. G. Edmonson |

WASHINGTON -- Members of the National Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America have mou

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Bayport Suits to be Dropped

The Port of Houston Authority has reached agreement with the neighboring city of Seabrook for the co

Oberstar Recovers from Surgery

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman James L. Oberstar, D.-Minn., underwent a nec

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Contract on Trucking

Shippers wielding market power keep lid on rates; carriers cry foul as profits fall, operating costs rise |

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.To everything there is a season, and this appears to be t

Clean Truck Plan Stalls

Bill Mongelluzzo |

Political pressure, the threat of lawsuits and an urgent need for port expansion combined to scuttle

Transport Up, Logistics Down

William Hoffman |

Rising transportation costs over the past year were more than offset by lower expenses in other area

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People

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Caterpillar, Peoria, Ill., named Stephen P. Larson to rep

The Back Page

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Logged. The debate over truck driver hours of service at

Hanjin to Build at Jaxport

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Hanjin Shipping Co. and the Jacksonville Port Authority s

Matson Boost Surcharge

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Matson Navigation Co. will increase the fuel surcharge on

Slower Growth for PNW

Bill DiBenedetto |

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The lackluster container results for the Pacific Northwes

Kitty Hawk Grounded

Michael Fabey |

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Clipped by a poor economy and wounded by rising fuel pric

Railcar Market Down Again

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The freight railcar industry shrank further in the third

Forward''s 3Q Profit Pinched

Michael Fabey |

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.To the thirsty, the glass always seems half full, and in

Hub ''Soul Searching'' After Purchase Collapses

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.When Hub Group said in September its Comtrak Logistics un

Seeking DM&E''s Brakes

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The Mayo Clinic of Rochester, Minn., and BNSF Railway bot

YRC Downgraded

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Standard & Poor''s put credit ratings for YRC Worldwide o

Estes Opens More Terminals

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Estes Express Lines opened new terminals in Detroit and P

Showing Off Trailers

John Gallagher |

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.There may more than enough trailers to go around right no

BlackBerry Your Freight

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Shippers addicted to their BlackBerries won''t necessaril

Industry Reflects in UPS'' Mirror

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The prognosis for UPS in the wake of its third quarter fi

RedPrairie Replaces CEO

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.John Jazwiec resigned as CEO of RedPrairie logistics soft

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Tagged for Success?

William Hoffman |

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Despite high implementation costs, supplier resistance an

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Constructing a Downturn

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Carriers building their recovery hopes on a rebound in th

Rails Targeted on Safety

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.After being struck in the head by a piece of steel while

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Feeling the Heat

John Gallagher |

The country's largest LTL carriers struggled to maintain traction during the third quarter as wither

No Christmas for Rails

The railroads are still making money but there are growing signs that weakness in some rail-related

Separate Flight Paths

Michael Fabey |

Related Story:? Industry Reflects in UPS' MirrorFor U.S. shippers and forwarders, the ai

Questioning Motives

When an Oregon short line railroad suddenly shut down and sent shippers scrambling, some members of

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Who's Liable for Misdelivered Load?

Colin Barrett |

Q:We hired a broker to pick up and deliver a two-stop load. The stops were first at a point in I

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