Do what you say you are going to do and always “do it with a smile” is Virginia Mirror Co. Chief Executive Officer John Korff’s philosophy for getting ahead in business. That philosophy, coupled with honesty and ...
Tags: Glass Business, Virginia Mirror
Zenith Global Logistics, a specialized furniture carrier and logistics provider, has relocated and expanded its freight hub in Maryland to an 88,000-square-foot facility in Aberdeen. The new facility is triple the size of its former hub ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Family Dollar Stores, Inc. reported record earnings results for the fourth quarter and year ended August 31, 2013. Net income per diluted share in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013 increased 27.5% to $0.88. Included in the results for the ...
Tags: Family Dollar, Apparel
Risk transfer is an accepted financing technique usually associated with purchasing insurance to transfer the risk to an insurance company. For the past several years, though, we have seen an increasing tendency amongst shippers to use ...
Tags: Transportation, insurance, Auto Parts
Overall freight volumes in the US will grow by 63.6% to $1.3 trillion annually in 2024 and trucking will see its share of those revenues rise to 81% from 80.7% in 2012, according to ATA's U.S. Freight Transportation Forecast to 2024. The ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, freight
Shippers love them; carriers hate them. Freight RFPs or freight bids have become increasingly popular over the last decade as a mechanism to negotiate freight rates and service. Even companies with as little as $50K in annual freight spend ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts
Sydney is on track to have 5.5 million TEU trucked between Port Botany and western Sydney each year by 2030, unless the NSW government finds $1 billion to build a rail spur linking a new intermodal terminal at Eastern Creek with Port Botany ...
Tags: Trucks Transport, Transport, logistics
The Government of India has withdrawn cotton and cotton yarn from Duty Credit Scrip eligibility under the Focus Market Scheme (FMS), with effect from September 25, 2013. ‘Export of cotton’ and ‘export of cotton ...
Tags: Cotton Yarn, Cotton
Dave Walbran, national technical service manager, Big Lift Trucks Australia (left) with Gerry van Elden, sales and marketing manager, Big Lift Trucks Australia. Big Lift Trucks, distributors of industrial forklifts and container handling ...
Tags: Transport, Service, Lift Trucks
AMI, which claims to be the world's largest trade-only airfreight and express wholesaler, has officially launched its 'click2ship' service in Australia after a successful three-month pilot. Click2ship was first launched in the UK in 2010. ...
Tags: Service
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported a continued modest improvement in air cargo markets in August. August air freight demand was up 3.6% on the previous year, which is considerably better than year-to-date ...
Tags: Service, air freight, Transport
Turnover at large US truckload fleets continued to increase in the second quarter, according to The American Trucking Associations' Trucking Activity Report. Turnover in the second quarter rose two percentage points to 99%. "Continued ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, truck
Canadian spot market freight availability took a small step back in August, according to the latest data from TransCore Link Logistics. The company noted month-over-month and year-over-year load volumes were down about 2%. Load volumes ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Logistics, Transportation
Rail in Australia is growing at a substantial rate, with passenger journeys increasing by 84 million over the past four years. The 'Australian Rail Industry Report', commissioned by the Australasian Railway Association (ARA) and with ...
A small upturn in prices for sub-5,000 kcal/kg NAR Chinese thermal coal on perceived stirrings of restocking activity for the upcoming northern hemisphere winter and some market tightness was seized on by traders Friday. South China ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy