Logistics

Politics Hamper Improving North America's Border Infrastructure

May 15, 2014

Twenty years after NAFTA, the failure of member countries to invest in adequate border infrastructure is catching up with us. To reverse the drag on our competitiveness, North America needs an infrastructure bank. To this end, Canada should join and lead the transformation of the North American Development Bank.

Rail, Trucking Interests Back Beefed-up Investment in Transportation Infrastructure

May 15, 2014

Transport Topics

America's trucking companies and railroads quite literally are the lifeblood of this economy; connecting farms to the dinner table, warehouses to stores and American businesses to consumers at home and across the globe. Without the hard work of millions of drivers, train crews and employees all across our industries, this economy would simply stop.

CaroTrans Adds Weekly, Direct Connection Between New York and Marseilles

May 14, 2014

CaroTrans

CaroTrans, the non-vessel operating common carrier and ocean freight consolidator, has expanded its less-than-containerload and full-containerload services between the U.S. and France, with the addition of a direct, weekly New York-Marseilles service.

Four Transportation Trends That Are Transforming Retail

May 14, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

Matt Menner, senior vice president of strategic account management with Transplace, examines four macro trends affecting transportation: capacity, human capital, carrier-shipper relations and information technology.

Your Next Perfect Employee or Job Is Waiting

May 14, 2014

SupplyChainBrain

SupplyChainBrain and JobsInLogistics have joined forces in 2014 for the specialized purpose of:

Southeastern Freight Lines Equips Tractors With Onboard Mobile System

May 13, 2014

Southeastern Freight Lines

Southeastern Freight Lines, a provider of regional less-than-truckload (LTL) services, has equipped its fleet of 2,850 tractors with an upgraded onboard mobile system.

DHL Deploys Helicopters for Deliveries in Los Angeles

May 13, 2014

DHL

DHL has launched a helicopter service to provide early-morning delivery to several major banking customers in downtown Los Angeles.

Will New U.S. Regulations on Rail Shipments of Oil Prevent More Explosions?

May 12, 2014

Business Week

A week after a train loaded with crude oil from North Dakota exploded in downtown Lynchburg, Va., dumping 30,000 gallons of oil into the James River, the Department of Transportation announced two moves to try to keep this from happening so frequently. It's doubtful that either will make much of a difference in preventing what's become a major safety hazard in the U.S.

Best Practices Can Help Overcome Transnational Infrastructure Challenges

May 12, 2014

BCG Perspectives

Transnational infrastructure programs, such as cross-border railway networks and electricity distribution systems, can increase regional trade, prosperity, stability and integration. That is part of the rationale of the Priority Action Plan of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA PAP), encompassing 51 programs and with an investment need of $68bn up to the year 2020. Such programs face formidable challenges, however.

Spain Seeks to Become Integral Logistics Platform

May 9, 2014

Fresh Plaza

Spain aims to become the major logistics platform for southern Europe and northern Africa, serving the global east-west trade routes, as well as the emerging north-south, according to Rafael Catala, Spanish Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing.

Logistics

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