Canadian transportation firm TransForce Inc. said its income dropped in the fourth quarter, which was mostly attributed due to bad weather, and Contrans Group reported its earnings increased in 2014. Net income was C$12.3 million, or 13 ...
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U.S. rail intermodal traffic increased 6.4% in the week ended Feb. 22 compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads reported. Railroads moved 253,358 intermodal trailers and containers that week, AAR said ...
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Bulk prices for diesel exhaust fluid in the United States rose in February for the second consecutive month, Integer Research reported. The national average DEF price grew by 3 cents to $1.57 per gallon for full truckload deliveries of ...
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The New Year has arrived and so have the latest trends in office design. For 2014, they are bold colors and streamlined, functional spaces. Check out our top 5 office trends for 2014: 1.Bright Colors: This year the experts at Pantone ...
According to the research form Princeton University Institute, the Facebook may has reached the end, more and more users begin to ignore its charm, and eventually lose interest in it. Some analysts believe that the main reason is teenagers ...
Vietnam s domestic sales declined by 18.6 per cent YoY in the first month of this year to 2.93Mt due to subdued real estate activity, the country s Ministry of Construction (MoC) has said. Exports during January 2014 totalled 820,000t, ...
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The China government has set a 2020 target production value of CNY1 trillion (US$164 billion) for all types of LED products, with 70% of the value to come from LED lighting, according to Digitimes Research. The target production value for ...
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China imported 35.91 million metric tons of coal in January, up 17.5 percent from the same month of 2013, according to preliminary statistics released by the Chinese General Administration of Customs. The value of China's coal imports in ...
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The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Tuesday that for the month of December 2013, US steel mills shipped 7,632,629 net tons, a 0.4 percent increase from the 7,604,428 net tons shipped in the previous month, November 2013, ...
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Truck tonnage rose 1.2% in January, held back by a series of nationwide winter storms, American Trucking Associations announced. The impact of the storms was illustrated by the 4.3% drop from December, the largest sequential decline in ...
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Trucking accounted for 3,200 of the 113,000 jobs added in January, and the U.S. unemployment rate fell to a five-year low of 6.6%, the Labor Department reported Feb. 7. The job increase was below economists' forecasts of 180,000, and ...
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Heartland Express Inc. net income rose 11% to $15.8 million, or 18 cents per share, from $14.3 million, or 17 cents per share, as fourth-quarter results reflected the acquisition of Gordon Trucking Inc. late last year. Heartland, based in ...
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According to Russian Railway statistics, in January this year direct supplies of steel scrap by rail to Russian metallurgical companies and pipe plants totaled 585,100 mt, down 5.6 percent compared to January 2013 and half the volume ...
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Confidence is clearly returning within the UK printing sector, according to the latest BPIF Printing Outlook survey. When questioned regarding the general state of trade during the final quarter of 2013, more than half (55%) believed that ...
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World demand for water treatment chemicals is forecast to rise 5.8 percent per year to $30.6 billion in 2017. Demand will be driven by rising water quality standards in manufacturing and other industrial applications, expanding access to ...