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Importers of general department store merchandise, such as electrical goods, sporting goods, chinawa

TOLEDO RAILWAY CREATES NEW STORAGE PROGRAMEAST PEORIA, Ill. - Toledo, Peoria & Western Railw

Canton Industrial Corp. has created a new unit called Abbott Products Structural Steel Division.

RADIX GROUP INTERNATIONAL INC. (New York) - Art Samuelson was named district manager of Radix's Seat

Itel Distribution Systems has carved itself into four geographic regional divisions. "We're

PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. (Cincinnati) - Gary T. Martin was promoted to vice president, product supply, i

As Soviet citizens continue whetting their appetites for Western-style democracy, some of the more

When R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. decided to go the third-party route, the company took a non-traditio

WIS. CUSTOMS BROKERS JOIN NATIONAL GROUPDEARBORN, Mich. - The board of the National Customs

INTERAMERICAN (Los Angeles) - Jim Hintgen was named transportation administration manager at this fu

To drink Jack Daniel's famous black-label "Old No. 7" Tennessee whiskey the way Roger Brashears does

INLAND STEEL TO MERGE SERVICE CENTER UNITSInland Steel Industries Inc. said its service cent

Last Friday, workers at Champion Road Machinery Ltd. toiled like there was no tomorrow. Ther

Richard Haupt, director of Ford Motor Co.'s transportation and traffic office, retired Monday.

NASSTRAC'S FALL MEETING PLANNED FOR ST. LOUISThe National Small Shipments Traffic Conference

At Ikea Sweden, unconventional is a badge of honor. "We don't mind suggesting things that ar

CLIPPER FREIGHT MANAGEMENT (Lemont, Ill.) - Richard J. Gutsell was appointed vice president of sales

Lumber companies appear to be lining up in support of an Interstate CommerceCommission propo

Total Logistics Resources Inc. is the new name for Ted L. Rausch Co. The new name reflects t

U.S. shippers shouldn't fret about facing major transportation changes if Canada's constitutional cr

NORTHERN CONSOLIDATORS INC. (Honolulu) - Roni Krause was named sales manager for Northern's new frei

Morton International opened a new salt processing facility in Port Canaveral, Fla. The facil

Shippers are discovering the latest pit stop on the nation's intermodal pathways: Remington, Ind.

How do 180,000 pounds of live lobsters get from Boston's coastal waters to Father's Day dinner plate

LEASEWAY UNIT WINS WHIRLPOOL DELIVERY JOBSavannah Service Inc. was awarded all of the Florid

R.R. Donnelley and Sons Co. selected South Daytona, Fla., as the site for its new printing plant.

Shippers have mixed reactions to new Department of Transportation rules governing 48-foot, 102-inch-

CLIPPER EXXPRESS INC. RAISES LTL RATESLEMONT, Ill. - Clipper Exxpress Inc. is raising less-t

Steel shippers in northwest Indiana, the nation's center for integrated steel production, are shifti

Inland Steel Co. has significantly cut back on the number of motor carriers it uses to haul steel f

ICC ASKED TO REOPEN PETITION ON FIREWORKSThe National Industrial Transportation League suppo

Steward D. Hauser remembers years ago when his freight forwarder colleagues filed applications to ha

EAGLE USA INKS LEASE WITH ATLANTA TRADEPORTEagle USA Airfreight Inc., a Houston-based domest

Steel shippers continue to rave about Consolidated Rail Corp.'s SteelTrain. "It's very relia

INVENTION STACKS BAGS, BOXES FOR SHIPPINGTwo Canadian inventors claim to have developed a sy

Freight shippers attacked a trucking industry plan to set minimum transportation rates for moving go

Oscar Camejo saw United Parcel Service salesmen every month. Then he decided to try a new package ca

It couldn't have worked out any better. ITT Rayonier Inc. had a nagging problem known to all

NASSTRAC NAMES KEMP MEMBER OF THE YEARNAPLES, Fla. - Janet S. Kemp, outbound traffic manager

The idea was to single-source. Offer all your 300-plus annual carloads of business to one of