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For the commercial transportation business, moving things from point A to point B is job one. This coverage explores all of those movements at a global level and focuses on everything from global trade, ocean shipping, and port activity to intermodal business, rail operations and the greater supply chain.
 

Business, Logistics

UPS to Lay Off 400 at Logistics Center

UPS has told more than 400 workers at a northern Kentucky logistics facility that they will be laid off in March, the Associated Press reported.

January 26, 2012
Business, Logistics

Radiant Logistics Trading on American Stock Exchange

Radiant Logistics announced that its shares have begun trading on the American Stock Exchange.

January 26, 2012
Business, Logistics

Coyote Logistics Creates 400 New Jobs in Chicago

Coyote Logistics said it plans to add 400 new jobs in the Chicago area.

January 26, 2012
Business, Logistics

Langham Wins Extension of Airport Job

Indianapolis International Airport has awarded another multiyear contract to Langham Airport Logistics for logistics support services.

January 26, 2012
Business, Logistics

Delhaize to Close Warehouse, Food Lion Stores

Delhaize Group SA, parent of Food Lion and Bloom supermarkets, said it would close its distribution center in Clinton, Tenn.

January 26, 2012
Business, Logistics

Norfolk Southern Reports Record Earnings

Norfolk Southern Corp. said its fourth-quarter profit rose 19%, on higher traffic and rates.

January 25, 2012
Business, Logistics

Swift Swings to Profit for 4Q, Year

Swift Transportation Co. Wednesday said its fourth-quarter profit was $36.8 million, or 26 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $48.3 million, or 66 cents, a year ago.

January 25, 2012
Business, Logistics

CSX Reports Higher 4Q Profit

CSX Corp.’s fourth-quarter profit rose 6% as higher rates offset a decline in volume, the freight railroad said.

January 24, 2012
Editorial, Business, Logistics

Editorial: Trucking Visionary Don Schneider

This Editorial appears in the Jan. 23 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today.

January 23, 2012
Business, Logistics

Trucking Industry Legend Don Schneider Dead at 76

Don Schneider, chairman emeritus and former president and CEO of Schneider National Inc. — and one of the nation’s most influential trucking executives — died Jan. 13 in De Pere, Wis., after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 76.

January 23, 2012