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Transportation

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 19 hours ago - 6 Documents

Railroad shipping: AAR reports volumes are down 8.9 percent for the week ending November 14

WASHINGTON-The Association of American Railroads reported this week that total volume for the week ending November 14 was down percent 8.9 compared to the corresponding week last year and 17 percent from the same week in 2007.Last month, AAR officials ... [Logistics Management - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Intermodal, Ed Wolfe, John Larkin, Association of American Railroads

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 4 Documents

Trucking: Schneider National set to take over transportation operations for Emerson

Jeff Berman, Group News Editor -- Logistics Management, 11/19/2009 Schneider National Inc., a provider of transportation, logistics and intermodal services, said this week it will be assuming operations of the transportation division of St. Louis-based ... [Logistics Management - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Schneider National, Intermodal, FINANCIAL RISK, Logistics

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 5 Documents (in Politics)

Federal Aviation Administration

FAA Computer Glitch Causes Widespread Flight Delays

Travelers on flights out of the East Coast today may experience significant flight delays, due to a glitch in the FAA’s computers, according to USA Today.The delays stemmed from a problem processing flight plan information. They began in Atlanta at Hartsfield-Jackson, ... [Cheapflights.com - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Federal Aviation Administration, Atlanta, Flight Plan, AirTran Holdings Inc

First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 3 Documents

Kitsap Transit chief calls for separate agency

Send an e-mail to a colleaguePlease fill out the form below to send a link to this story to your colleague.Your Name:Your E-mail:Colleague's Name:Colleague's E-mail:Message: (Max. 500 chars.)Enter the verification code as it is shown below without spaces. ... [Metro Magazine - 12 hours ago]

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 3 Documents

La CKYH Alliance adoptará un programa de reducción de velocidad

Las navieras de la CKYH Alliance han acordado poner en marcha un programa de reducción de velocidad para algunos de sus servicios. Cosco Container Lines, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (“K” Line), Yang Ming Line y Hanjin Shipping aplicarán esa medida para conseguir ... [Nuestromar - 16 hours ago]

Entities: COSCO Group, Hanjin, Valencia

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 3 Documents

Agility Hit By Fraud Indictment

Agility won a potential $50 million, five-year contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to manage food aid to Djibouti, Africa where the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency is currently working (above). A federal grand jury in Atlanta, GA ... [Air Cargo World - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Agility, Indictment, Defense Logistics Agency, Fraud, United States

First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 2 Documents

Toronto's GO looks to expand rail to Niagara

Enter the verification code as it is shown below without spaces. (Case-insensitive)Enter Code:Image Code VerificationAutomated programs can't 'read' the code you see in the box: only humans can. When you enter this code, it ensures that your order is ... [Metro Magazine - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Toronto, Strategic Plan, Environment

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Politics)

German rail operator set to ink deal with Qatar

German Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer said he and Deutsche Bahn chief executive Ruediger Grube will sign the deal in Qatar on Sunday.The online version of the business newspaper Handelsblatt says the contract package is worth 17 billion euros, comprising ... [Deutsche Welle - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Qatar, Deutsche Bahn AG, DB Regio, Kyle James, DB Schenker

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 9 hours ago - 2 Documents

GE secures three deals in China

GE Transportation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China's Ministry of Railways (MOR) to develop high-speed rail technology for the US market. GE has also signed two locomotive-related deals with CSR Qishuyan Locomotive.The MOU will ... [International Railway Journal - 9 hours ago]

Entities: China, Engine, Diesel

First Reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 Documents

FreightScan Contracted For Installation Of FS100 Dimensioning...

Contracted For Installation Of FS100 Dimensioning Sy Articles thisButton FreightScan Contracted For Installation Of FS100 Dimensioning System From Worldwide Flight ServicesNovember 20, 2009 FreightScan, LLC, a leader in the development and deployment ... [Logistics Online - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Worldwide Flight Services Inc, Fort Worth, Bill Payne

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 2 Documents

Fla. Turnpike tolling to go cashless

By Jill DunnTruckers have until Dec. 1 to comment on Florida's conversion to cashless tolling for its Turnpike, while this system is being implemented or eyed by infrastructure authorities in other states.On Nov. 8, Florida's Turnpike Enterprise began ... [ETrucker - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Port Auth of NY & NJ, Denver (Colorado, United States), HTML

First Reported 13 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 2 Documents

Analyst sees trucking recovery in 2010

By Max KvideraThe trucking industry will begin to recover in the second half of 2010 and accelerate into "a pretty nice" 2011, Noel Perry, FTR Associates managing director and senior consultant, said today, Nov. 20.In an online presentation covering freight ... [ETrucker - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Bankruptcy

Quotes

'It has been very well received,' Simley said. "It works out very well because it provides us with greater surety in our supply chain — that the products we order, we will get."

Supply Chain News: Walmart Joins Kohl's in Offering Factoring Program to Apparel Suppliers [Supply Chain Digest - 20 mins ago]

“ "When you can eliminate the need to scan the pallet or the location you are putting it in – where load and location are automated – you can eliminate those errors and get to really efficient warehouses,” he says."

Supply Chain News: To Find ROI for RFID in Distribution, You Have to Go Well Beyond Just Eliminat ... [Supply Chain Digest - 20 mins ago]

...the retailer will be able to improve service levels to its customers while providing transportation efficiencies and increasing productivity. "This revised distribution network needs to accommodate our growth ambitions across the business. We therefore needed a scalable supply chain technology backbone that would reliably serve the new DC network and meet our cross-channel fulfillment requirements and allow us to introduce various flow-through techniques including cross-docking." That led to Halfords' choice of Manhattan based on prior experience of working with them as well as the ability to integrate the solution within an existing...

Halfords Launches DC Optimization Initiative [Logistics Today - 43 mins ago]

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Blogs

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GE and China Ministry of Railways Sign Strategi... [Green Car Congress - 11/17/2009] GE and China’s Ministry of Railways signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly advance high-speed rail (HSR) opportunities in the United States. This ...
Report from CS3 Symposium Highlights Work Towar... [Green Car Congress - 11/06/2009] Scientists are making progress toward development of an “artificial leaf” that mimics photosynthesis, but that converts sunlight and water into a liquid fuel such ...
MIT and National Research Foundation of Singapo... [Green Car Congress - 11/03/2009] The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Research Foundation of Singapore launched a new project to develop new models and tools for the planning, ...

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