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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

Echo Global Logistics Posts Higher 4Q Income

Echo Global Logistics said its fourth-quarter profit climbed 68.5% to $3.5 million, or 16 cents per share, from $2.1 million, or 9 cents, a year ago.

February 24, 2012
Business, Logistics

Expanded Canal Offers Only Modest Savings to Shippers, U.S. Maritime Consultant Says

The expansion of the Panama Canal will have the greatest effect on shipments to a handful of states stretching from Ohio to Georgia but will offer only modest cost savings to shippers, a consultant to the U.S. Maritime Administration said.

February 23, 2012
Business, Logistics

XPO Logistics Posts Fourth-Quarter Loss

XPO Logistics said it posted a fourth-quarter loss after earning a profit in the same period a year ago.

February 23, 2012
Business, Logistics

Wabash Posts Stronger Profit on Higher Trailer Sales

Trailer manufacturer Wabash National Corp. said its fourth-quarter and full-year income rose on higher trailer sales.

February 23, 2012
Business, Logistics

Bolt Express Acquires Strike Logistics

Air and ground expedited services provider Bolt Express LLC said it has completed the acquisition of third-party services provider Strike Logistics.

February 22, 2012
Business, Logistics

Expeditors’ 4Q Earnings Slip

Logistics firm Expeditors International of Washington said Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit slipped 4%, citing “irregular demand” in the quarter.

February 21, 2012
Business, Government, Logistics

Improved LTL Pricing Can Increase Profits, Beat 3PL Competition, Execs Tell Conference

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Less-than-truckload carriers need to improve their pricing discipline and sophistication to boost profits in a market where rate-driven, third-party logistics operators are playing a growing role, LTL executives said.

February 20, 2012
Business, Logistics

Weekly Intermodal Traffic Slips 0.4%

U.S. intermodal traffic slipped 0.4% for the week ended Saturday from a year ago, the Association of American Railroads reported.

February 17, 2012
Business, Government, Logistics

Port of L.A. Container Volumes Rise in January

The Port of Los Angeles said Feb. 15 its import and export container volumes each rose more than 5% in January from a year ago.

February 16, 2012
Business, Logistics

Canadian National Opens Wisconsin Intermodal Terminal

Canadian National Railway said it has opened a new intermodal facility in Chippewa Falls, Wis., to serve the upper Midwest, including the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn. area.

February 16, 2012