Logistics

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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

Old Dominion Starts Indiana Expansion Project

Old Dominion Freight Line said it has broken ground on an expansion of its regional hub in Indianapolis that will cost nearly $22 million.

August 19, 2011
Business, Logistics

Ceva's 2Q Earnings Jump

Ceva Logistics, the Netherlands-based logistics operator, said its second-quarter results improved over 2010.

August 19, 2011
Business, Logistics

Bourque Releases YardMaster 2.0 Software

Bourque Logistics, a supplier of logistics software to industrial shippers, has introduced the latest version of its YardMaster Truck software.

August 19, 2011
Business, Logistics

LinkAmerica Names Simone CEO

LinkAmerica Corp., a Tulsa, Okla., trucking and logistics company, has named John Simone its new CEO.

August 19, 2011
Business, Logistics

Intermodal Traffic Rises 0.8% for Week

Intermodal traffic rose 0.8% last week on higher container traffic, the Association of American Railroads reported.

August 19, 2011
Business, Logistics

Express-1 Reports Lower 2Q Earnings

Express-1 Expedited Solutions said its second-quarter profit fell 39.2% to $914,000, or 3 cents per share, from $1.5 million, or 5 cents, a year ago.

August 16, 2011
Business, Logistics

Trailer Bridge Reports Second-Quarter Loss

Trailer Bridge Inc. reported a second-quarter loss of $3.6 million, or 30 cents a share, compared with net income of $900,000, or 7 cents, a year ago.

August 15, 2011
Business, Logistics

Express-1 To Be Acquired By Equity Firm

Express-1 Expedited Solutions, a provider of brokerage and forwarding services, said it has scheduled a Sept. 1 shareholders’ meeting to approve a takeover by Jacobs Private Equity, a firm controlled by investor Bradley Jacobs.

August 12, 2011
Business, Logistics

Weekly Intermodal Traffic Rises 1.9%

Intermodal traffic rose 1.9% last week, the Association of American Railroads reported.

August 12, 2011
Business, Government, Logistics

Consumer Confidence Falls to 31-Year Low

Consumer confidence plummeted in August to its lowest level since May 1980, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

August 12, 2011