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The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINEWASHINGTON -- The United States is boosting the concept of a n

Sales for retailers across the country rose 4.4 percent in October, according to a survey by the Int

Worldwide forwarder EGL reported solid increases in the third quarter based on positive activity acr

Schenker's carrier network plans to use Descartes Systems Group's Local Haulage Service to optimize

TNT Logistics has launched an initiative to develop the use of radio-frequency identification techno

The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINELONDON -- P&O, the British ports and ferries group, today said

JF Hillebrand Group, a global beverage logistics provider, said this week it is now using Nistevo's

Pacer International increased profits by 29 percent in the third quarter as a result of growth in bo

PIERS announced that its new Web site is available at www.piers.com. PIERS customers will find it ea

Tablewear producer Oneida and furniture retailer Ikea leased 651,909-square-feet of warehouse space

Danone Waters appointed Schneider Logistics its lead logistics provider for all U.K. movements of bo

Canadian Pacific Railway has appointed Fred Green as president, succeeding Rob Ritchie.Ritch

The U.S. Postal Service, in the midst of trying to improve service to compete with private carriers,

P&O Ferries sold its cold logistics units to Versacold Holdings in Canada for $323 million.<

Canadian gross domestic product advanced 0.5 percent in August following a 0.2 percent increase in J

The Federal Open Market Committee decided Nov. 1 to raise its target for the federal funds rate by 2

Target Logistics reported net income of $477,078 in the first quarter of fiscal 2006, an increase of

The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINELOS ANGELES - The long-awaited crush of peak-season cargo is h

Round Rock, Texas-based computer manufacturer Dell said Oct. 31 that it expects third quarter revenu

American Commercial Lines said third-quarter earnings totaled $3.5 million from a loss for the same

DirectGroup China, a division of multinational Bertelsmann media group, is expanding in China, with

Zildjian, four-century-old manufacturer of premium percussion instruments, will outsource distributi

TNT and Japan Post say a joint venture for international express service in Japan is the first step

U.S. and Canadian customs officials this month signed an agreement that would allow Canadian officer

Manufacturing activity in the United States slipped in October, according to a monthly business repo

Sun Microsystems is making available to the public the RFID-enabled asset tracking system it uses to

Florida has extended its lifting of restrictions on how much commercial trucks can carry as it conti

A new study outlining the positive effects of Wal-Mart's radio-frequency identification technology r

Federal emergency management officials are trying to tease out logistics lessons from their troubled

Orders and deliveries for railroad freight cars declined slightly during the third quarter compared

During the week ending Oct. 22, U.S. railroads for the first time ever surpassed 250,000 intermodal

Dutch logistics and mail company TNT scored a 2.1 percent rise in operating profit in third quarter

The European Union has seven months to reform its sugar subsidies programs or potentially face billi

The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINEOTTAWA - Canada on Friday extended transitional rules under wh

The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINEThe Chinese yuan on Friday climbed to its highest level agains

The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINEC. Harvey Monk Jr., chief of the Census Bureau's foreign trade

The nation's leading trucking group is backing a call by Senate Republicans to open Alaska's Arctic

Logistics company Exel expanded its participation RosettaNet, adding Thailand to its affiliation wit

BAX Global, a subsidiary of Brinks Company, received approval as the first transnational solely-fund

The JOURNAL of COMMERCE ONLINEThe European Union on Friday offered to reduce average agricul