American Trucking Associations announced the departure of Howard Abramson as publisher and editorial director of Transport Topics Publishing Group and the appointment of Jeff Mason to head up the publishing unit. ATA President Bill Graves ...
Mankind's primordial dream of flight is taking off with a new twist as a Slovak prototype of a flying car spreads its wings. Inspired by the books about flying by French authors Jules Verne and Antoine de Saint Exupery, Slovak designer ...
Tags: Flying Car, Auto, Transportation
The next 15 years will be vital in determining whether global warming can be limited to 2C (3.6F) by 2100, with energy and transport presenting the heftiest challenges, according to a draft UN report. "Delaying mitigation through 2030 ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Reusable transport packaging systems manufacturer Rehrig Pacific has introduced new PUBKEG program, a per-trip 1/6th barrel rental solution for breweries and wineries. The program is expected to help breweries and wineries to ship full ...
Tags: Rehrig Pacific, COGS, OSHA, Pubkeg Program
Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer Scania has received an order for 1,500 Scania Euro 6 trucks from British transport companies Eddie Stobart and AW Jenkinson Forest Products. The order was placed under a new joint-procurement ...
Printing industry has undergone a drastic change in the years spanning last few decades. There has been arrival of several new printing technologies creating new opportunities in the field of business. The same goes for textile printing. ...
Tags: Printing industry, fabric, inkjet technology, textile
DIEPPE, NB — The Trucks for Change Network is spreading its influence east to help more charities in Atlantic Canada and they have the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association’s (APTA) backing. Trucks for Change, a broker that ...
They said the party was over, but Australia's giant resources sector is surging into a two-horse race between iron ore and coal, with the latest numbers revealing that there is still fire in the belly of the boom, thanks mainly to sustained ...
Tags: coal industry, Mineral
Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), says that Australia Japan Cable (AJC) - a ...
Tags: Infinera, InP, PIC, Australia Japan Cable
Edinburgh Council is spending £2.15 million on upgrading 6,000 street lights across the city, primarily using LED and PLL - outdoor long life fluorescent - technology. The upgrade follows the Council's White Light Pilot Project ...
Tags: Lights, Lighting, Street Lighting
The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene – the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move through silicon - promises exciting new things to come for the high-tech ...
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TLISC is inviting organisations across Australia to nominate for the 2014 Transport and Logistics Industry Skills Council Awards for Excellence. The awards offer the opportunity to recognise and celebrate exceptional achievements and ...
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The transport and logistics community is invited to join RedR Australia on Friday 7 February 2014 and wear red to help it make a difference to communities hit by natural disasters or displaced by conflict. 'Wear Red for RedR Day' is a ...
Tags: RedR, RedR Australia, wear red, not-for-profit organisation
With a strong transport focus, the 3rd annual GeoNext Conference is on again, and features a line-up of presenters covering key areas relevant to the transport and logistics community. Among the topics highlighted will be mapping assets, ...
Tags: GeoNext Conference, transport, logistics, transport network
This week a new study published in Nature and co-authored by Drs. Chris Moore and Daniel Obrist of Nevada's Desert Research Institute establishes, for the first time, a link between Arctic sea ice dynamics and the region's changing ...
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