Choose the right freight forwarder

by Seth Green Freight forwarders helps clients on preparing price quotations by advising on freight costs, port charges, consular fees, ... product portfolio. Freight forwarding companies which have been running long will be experienced ... and railroads, freight forwarding services will ensure that the goods will be moved along the most [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 11:31:33

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Freight Rail First

Phillip Longman of Washington Monthly has a great article discussing how getting tractor trailer trucks off of our highways and the cargo they carry onto expanded freight rail should be a top national infrastructure priority. The freight infrastructure system has long been neglected and, in a sense, the freight companies [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 21:57:29

managment News - freight managment software

Texas Freight Services Saves Often with McLeod’s Facile-Find™ Layover ... and operations transportation directorate software, announced today that Texas Freight Services, Inc ... from greater than planned use of loads freight as compared to air freight, improved efficiencies [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 04:37:03

Choose the right freight forwarder

Updated on Friday 6 March, 2009, under Business | by Michelle LaneFreight forwarders aids clients preparing price quotations by advising on ... of these readily. Wide product portfolio. Freight forwarding companies which have been running long ... materials.The primary objective of freight forwarding services is to transport commodities on time [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 19:07:35

Metrolink: A system forged from freight lines

Last night, I was able to reach Richard Stanger ... L.A. is such an important freight destination, these freight carriers required that they be allowed to operate ... trains and freight trains must often share the same set of tracks. The Metrolink tracks probably [more...]

Date: 2008-09-13 15:48:22

Worthless asset - Part 2 - what can be done with Kiwirail?

I like railways and I am an economic rationalist. I find it a little sad when a railway line closes, as if its purpose, hauling goods or people, ... should be forced to subsidise the freight movements or passenger movements of others ... freight is subsidising rail freight's customers , which is coal, timber, dairy and shippers [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 13:26:00

Freight Dries Up; FedEx, Con-Way Fall

The declining economic outlook is taking its toll on transportation companies, both those delivering smaller and larger goods ... of Con-Way Inc. were off by 6.8% after the trucking and freight logistics concern said it was lowering ... and transportation logistics companies are often the worst performers when freight demand contracts. [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 14:04:06

Freight Will Be Great

London Reconnections have kindly dissected the government's announcement about a new £54 million freight rail line to run alongside London ... is that, given LO's propensity to break or need engineering work, passenger services will have alternative tracks to run on, once the freight rails are put in place, so minimising disruption from 2014 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 16:05:08

Slew of new tankers will push rates down: DVB

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index , Baltic Dry Indices , Ship Chartering , Shipchartering , Voyage Fixtures , Time Charter Fixtures , Panamax , ... Exchange , Freight Review , Maritime Baltic Index , TNT Freight Review , VLCC Singapore: Freight ... S.E. said Monday. Very Large Crude Carriers and Aframaxes are "in a more vulnerable position [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 07:21:00

The Visitors

Today my music theory class, mentioned below, started with a YouTube playback of Elizabeth (”Liba”) Cotten singing her own “Freight Train ... that SHE wrote “Freight Train.” She is clearly one of the unsung roots of American folk music. I feel blessed ... was attributed as “American” when it should have said “Elizabeth Cotten.” How much effort would [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 04:35:57

IT & efficiency

“Accurate and timely data capture is such an integral part of the supply chain process today as it relates to running the entire freight ... . “We operate in a global freight and logistics environment that is considerably more dynamic ... to create a cohesive, optimized logistics process.” –Gene Gander, vice president of sales [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 12:06:30

World Voyage in a Freighter

Early booking discounts of up to 10% available!We are pleased to be able to offer what we consider to be the best value in an around the world ... if there is freight to/from those ports. These ships are also part general cargo which means slower loading ... , Masan, Kobe, Yokohama, Panama Canal transit, Houston Ports called if freight to/from port: Jeddah [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 13:17:56

History Channel’s Extreme Trains “Ice Cold Express” Episode

I guess that we caught our first National Television debut back around December (BGP’s aka B ack G round P rops to be exact) ... a freight.  So after getting all the necessary supplies we went to go handle our biz, in complete ... De Mayo freight shows up!  (At least that’s what we were told because none of us even witnessed [more...]

Date: 2009-03-08 08:00:59

Treasures beyond measure

Fate. Sometimes I think She is mistaken for just being in tune to what is going on around you. Sometimes not... ... Freight Company and see what has come in for our delivery service. I then load it and take it back ... . It has hit the freight industry hard. Manufacturers are not manufacturing due to the lack of demand [more...]

Date: 2009-02-21 08:27:00

Taxes, Unions, and Regulations Matter

-By Thomas E. Brewton To picture what Senator Obama’s economic policies hold in store for the United States look at the destructive impact of those ... and transportation. Trucking on the interstate highway system surged in the 1950s and the rise of air freight shifted lots of freight traffic from railroads. More cost-effective single-story, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 10:01:17

News Roundup: Heroes, Protests, and Decertifications

Congressional Democrat, Rep. Dan Boren , has come out against EFCA.  What a courageous stand! ... : Teamster union bosses organized a subsequent campaign of intimidation and harassment of Oak Harbor Freight ... in ambulatory strikes, in which they stalked and picketed Oak Harbor Freight drivers on their daily routes. “ [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 17:48:04

Ideally only one or even no break bulks

Even though it is not required it is good practice to put the Tracking number on each side of each piece of freight. Some freight be irregular in shape. These parameters vary by carrier, and not all carriers ... as rate per pound or per hundredweight. Volume pricing is available from some carriers for shipments [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 21:17:48

Global air freight sees major slump in January

Kuala Lumpur - International demand for air freight recorded a dip of 23.6 per cent in January because of a lull in world trade amid the global economic downturn, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines said Friday. The drop in freight ton kilometre... [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 03:59:53

Private cars in China up 28% in 2008

It wasn’t so long ago that we wrote about China’s 168 million motor vehicles (if you count everything), or about how taxes went up on big vehicles ( ... the only decrease: -3.3%.Freight traffic only increased by 3.8% in kilometers, but by 9.4% in tons. The fastest growing means of transportation (by tons) for freight at highways and pipelines, while [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 17:49:08

Obama Smears McCain on DHL Job Cuts in Ohio

Picking up on an ad put together by Ohio Democrats, Barack Obama is airing a radio commercial blaming John McCain (and campaign manager Rick Davis) ... , freight analyst with Seattle stock brokerage Ragan MacKenzie. "And they just bought 8 percent ... Tuesday for an estimated $1.05 billion immediately makes DHL a serious player in the U.S. freight market [more...]

Date: 2008-08-09 00:21:05

Reviewing Air Cargo Carriers

ocean freight When dealing with air cargo companies, it is nice to know a little about the air cargo carriers that they employ ... not otherwise think about. It is also very important for a freight shipping company ... do they have? How much space does each plane have? Even if you aren’t shipping anything, it is good [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 22:06:17

New Work: ‘Khaleej Times’

.'"> Luke Hayman and Paula Scher have redesigned the Khaleej Times, the Persian Gulf’s leading English language newspaper ... and more readable, and towards that end, a clear, space-efficient serif font, Freight by Joshua Darden, was selected. Freight’s large range of weights enabled this single font family to be used for 90 [more...]

Date: 2008-09-22 20:58:25

How 'bout that weather?

Record highs? You guys are getting the weather we had here in the Chicago area yesterday (typing this waiting for our flight home) ... tornadoes sound like freight trains? Last night around 10, in Kankakee, for about five minutes, it sounded just like a freight train (as opposed to the Train They Call the City of New Orleans, which [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 15:55:57

City Cargo

Cities like New York are looking for ways to improve air quality ... freight distribution that uses an infrastructure already in place. After completing a successful ... that will cut the number of large freight trucks traversing the city by half. Amsterdam’s existing [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 14:00:59

Grangemouth hub: good for economy & environment

Speaking in parliament in a debate on the National Planning Framework, ... passenger and freight traffic to more environmentally friendly forms of transport; enhance rail ... provision and further develop freight hubs, such as the port of Grangemouth in my constituency. “ [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 17:10:33

TCS BPO - 4 March to 6 March 09 - Mumbai - Team Member

About Company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is one of the world’s leading information technology companies ... , overland transport & air freight. It is also no 1 in ocean freight & contract logistics. Client offers wide range of customized solutions from document shipping to Supply Chain Management [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 08:35:57

Union Opposes Rail Safety Suggestion, Instead Offers to Enlarge Membership

-By Warner Todd Huston The United Transportation Union is coming out against a rail safety measure suggestion because, the union claims, ... a Metrolink commuter train collided head-on with a Union Pacific freight train, killing 25 and injuring 135 ... of the freight train also was using a cell phone during the collision – additionally he tested [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 14:39:53

Union Opposes Rail Safety Suggestion, Instead Offers to Enlarge Membership

-By Warner Todd Huston The United Transportation Union is coming out against a rail safety measure suggestion because, the union claims, ... a Metrolink commuter train collided head-on with a Union Pacific freight train, killing 25 and injuring 135 ... of the freight train also was using a cell phone during the collision — additionally he tested [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 14:42:13

Good news on Cycle Sport

Following my blog post earlier this week on Cycle Sport I was contacted by the Senior Account Manager at Network. The UK publisher last year moved to air freight, necessitating a price rise. This is to change back to sea freight with the issue on sale in May. This will bring the cover price down [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 22:15:00

Boxer's opening statement from today's hearing

Here is Sen. Barbara Boxer's opening statement from today's U.S. Senate Commerce Committee briefing on the Metrolink crash: STATEMENT OF U.S ... on with a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth, California. Tragically, 25 people lost their lives ... highlighted when a freight train and a commuter train collided head-on in Placentia, California [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 20:49:57

China has multiple plans in case of worse financial crisis impact: central bank governor

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index , Baltic Dry Indices , Ship Chartering , Shipchartering , Voyage Fixtures , Time Charter Fixtures , Panamax , ... Exchange , Freight Review , Maritime Baltic Index , TNT Freight Review , China Government Plans ... and some product prices," said Zhang, head of the National Development and Reform Commission.     Whether [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 16:00:00

“Molasses, waist deep”

January 15, 2009 in history and current events | by davenoon Ninety years ago today, ... it swirled and wiped out practically all of Boston’s only electric freight terminal. Big steel trolley freight cars were crushed as if eggshells, and their piled-up cargo of boxes and merchandise [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:18:06

FTA welcomes completion of major England and Wales gateway

The completion of a £61m scheme to improve a notoriously congested road linking England to north Wales has been warmly welcomed by leading industry ... body the Freight Transport Association (FTA). FTA members identified traffic congestion at the A550, A540 and M56 junctions as a barrier to reliable freight journey times back in 2003, as published in [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 15:38:08

Union Opposes Rail Safety Suggestion, Instead Offers to Enlarge Membership

The United Transportation Union is coming out against a rail safety measure suggestion because, the union claims, ... a Metrolink commuter train collided head-on with a Union Pacific freight train, killing 25 and injuring ... of the freight train also was using a cell phone during the collision — additionally he tested positive [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 10:30:08

India Iron Ore Exports Slow After Dec, Jan Surge

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index , Baltic Dry Indices , Ship Chartering , Shipchartering , Voyage Fixtures , Time Charter Fixtures , Panamax , ... Exchange , Freight Review , Maritime Baltic Index , TNT Freight Review , Iron Ore , Iron Ore Stockpiles ... scrapped export taxes on iron ore in December and Indian Railways started offering discounts for haul [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 04:39:00

How to get 400+ MPG Shipping Freight

GenSet%20diesel%20locomotive.jpg When you think of freight trains, what comes to mind? Loud. Graffiti covered ... to tell you it was one of the greenest methods of shipping, and at least when it comes to CSX, it's getting greener by the day? I was surprised to learn this too. CSX, a 180+ year old company with 21,000 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 13:40:44

Freight Train Boogie Podcast #15

RANDY WEEKS’  Going My Way is the featured CD on the Freight Train Boogie Podcast Show #15.  The playlist is posted below ... to the  direct download page . Please  email me with any questions, comments or suggestions ... Frater Freight Train Boogie [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 05:49:12

Huge cargoes of crude are anchored, awaiting a price hike

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index , Baltic Dry Indices , Ship Chartering , Shipchartering , Voyage Fixtures , Time Charter Fixtures , Panamax , ... Exchange , Freight Review , Maritime Baltic Index , TNT Freight Review , Super Tankers , Commodity Dumps , Chamber of Shipping , OPEC cuts , Crude Oil Decline Monday, 09 March 2009 Great [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 02:49:00

If iron ore benchmark system ends, we will have to follow: Vale

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index , Baltic Dry Indices , Ship Chartering , Shipchartering , Voyage Fixtures , Time Charter Fixtures , Panamax , ... Exchange , Freight Review , Maritime Baltic Index , TNT Freight Review , Vale Do Rio Doce , Fidel ... with contract rates. Talking about the alternatives to the benchmark system, Blanco said pricing based [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 04:37:00

Vale constructing huge bulk terminal in Oman

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index , Baltic Dry Indices , Ship Chartering , Shipchartering , Voyage Fixtures , Time Charter Fixtures , Panamax , ... Shipping Company (OSC) is building four new Ultra Large Ore Carriers, each of which has a capacity ... Exchange , Freight Review , Maritime Baltic Index , TNT Freight Review , Vale Do Rio Doce , Sohar [more...]

Date: 2009-03-04 04:38:00

NCRA Press Release March 9, 2009 DEIR for Lombar to Willits

North Coast Railroad Authority (NCRA) Chairman Allan Hemphill of Cloverdale today announced the release of NCRA’s Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for freight train operations on a 142 mile stretch of the Northwestern Pacific (NWP) line ... from the national rail interchange near American Canyon (lombard) to Windsor with freight service [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 21:38:46

391 - CARGO PLANE DC10 FOR SALE

These  2  DC10-30 F Aircraft > have approx 114,000 flight hours each and  were built in 1974,  &nbsp ; ... and are curerent in certification. They are being sold because of the economic slow down in the air freight ... they are very efficient machines in the heavy freight lift business. They are capable of handling [more...]

Date: 2009-03-07 11:40:26

LA Teamsters seeking to organize port truckers-Fight Illegal Firings

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-me-port3-2009mar03,0,1516349 ... of Los Angeles freight hauler today and demanded the reinstatement of four truckers who they said were ... trucks and, more controversially, elimination of the decades-old practice of hauling freight [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 08:30:15

Railways & Renewable explained in book: ELECTRIC WATER

Rex Weyler meet Christopher C. Swan. See also (peakoil.net) Articles 374 & 1037. Mr ... corridors, freight operations with trains exceeding 10,000 tons, with same technology (shorter &amp ... passenger, night victuals & freight in urban settings, mixed passenger and goods on the quieter [more...]

Date: 2008-09-21 06:47:24

Marketing

PT Freight Express Indonesia The International Freight Forwarder & Cargo Company Job Vacancy MarketingWoman/Man, ... & Fotograph no later than 2 (two) weeks to : PT Freight Express Indonesia Jl. Prawirotaman 39 Yogya 55153 [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 13:47:43

LakelandLocal.com - DOT and Orlando Legislators Reward Lakeland Government’s Diplomacy With The Hand

I guess you mostly have to feel sorry for Lakeland city government officials, ... deal freight traffic within 8 years into the legislation authorizing the deal. The only way ... have benefits for Tampa Bay by moving some freight off of the east-west line linking Tampa and Orlando [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 12:35:06

DryShips Announces Update on Sale and Purchase Activities

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index , Baltic Dry Indices , Ship Chartering , Shipchartering , Voyage Fixtures , Time Charter Fixtures , Panamax , ... Exchange , Freight Review , Maritime Baltic Index , TNT Freight Review , DryShips , Samsun Logix ... ) - DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS ) (the "Company" or "DryShips"), a global provider of marine transportation [more...]

Date: 2009-03-03 04:37:00

SCAN-A-FAX (Dec, 1961)

From Seattle to Miami To Air-Mail this report: 40 HOURS To send it by SCAN-A-FAX: ... telephone lines or by microwave. A major airline tested Scan-A-Fax to transmit freight manifests, dispatch records and air freight bills 24 hours a day between Idlewild, LaGuardia and Newark Airports [more...]

Date: 2009-01-27 03:50:40

China’s February box throughput plunges

Technorati Tags: Baltic Dry Index , Baltic Dry Indices , Ship Chartering , Shipchartering , Voyage Fixtures , Time Charter Fixtures , Panamax , ... Exchange , Freight Review , Maritime Baltic Index , TNT Freight Review , China Container Shipping Slump ... , down 17% year-on-year according to Xinhua. Nationwide container volume totalled 6.97 million teu [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 02:56:00

Hey!!, some good news

The Baltic dry freight index has today risen to its’ highest level this year.  The Baltic Exchanges’ main sea freight index (BADI), which tracks rates to ship dry commodities like iron ore and cement, rose 3.98% today!!! [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 15:31:32

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