The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.2 percent in January from December, rising for the third consecutive month, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics' ...
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The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1 percent in December from November, rising for the second consecutive month, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics' ...
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Monday’s opening keynote, “The Impact of Robotics on Economic Growth,” drew a 50/50 split of attendees for both ProMat and Automate, according to a show of hands requested by presenter Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of ...
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The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.7 percent in November from October, rising after a one-month decline, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics' (BTS) ...
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SAP now says it will proceed with two major user conferences set for Madrid next month, after saying earlier this week that it was weighing its options following concerns over labour strikes planned for the same time as the shows. But the ...
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Conventional thinking says you can't put 10 pounds of stuff in a 5-pound bag. Yet that was the challenge presented to Kenco,a national third-party logistics(3PL)provider with headquarters in Chattanooga,Tenn.,by a distributor of repair ...
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INEOS Europe AG has announced that it has completed supply and infrastructure agreements that will secure a significant volume of ethane feedstock from the US, for use in its European cracker complexes. The company has agreed to a long ...
As the remnants of Superstorm Sandy continue to make life difficult from Nova Scotia to North Carolina to Wisconsin, millions who bore the brunt of the storm are now working to assess the damage and begin the hard work of rebuilding. As ...
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Addition of Long-Haul Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) Units Expands Heavyweight Service Portfolio for Customers FedEx completes acquisition of the LTL operations of Watkins Motor Lines and certain affiliates creating FedEx National LTL and ...
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IDG News Service-SAP now says it will proceed with two major user conferences set for Madrid next month,after saying earlier this week that it was weighing its options following concerns over labor strikes planned for the same time as the ...
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GAYLORD,Mich.—Michigan Mattress Recyclers,a new business here,aims to keep mattresses out of landfills by recycling bedding components. The company said that in its first three months of business it has kept"tons"of mattress ...
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Stevia Nutra,a Canadian company focused on stevia agronomics,announced that it has entered into a services provision agreement with Ecologica,a local Cambodian agro-development company. Stevia Nutra,a Canadian company focused on stevia ...
Tags: Ecologica, services provision agreement, stevia agronomics