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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.
 

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Capstone Projects Test Logistics Students’ Skills

Many students who take master-level courses in logistics and supply chain management are required to undertake a special project, called a capstone project, to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.

September 27, 2010
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Letters: Keep the Step Vans, Calling it Quits, Natural Gas, Background Reports

Please keep step-van drivers in the National Truck Driving Championships. I attended my first truck-driving rodeo two years ago because the step-van category was added, and I had a blast. Now, I’m hooked on NTDC.

September 27, 2010
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L.A. Port Staff Suggests Delaying Start Date of Owner-Operator Ban Until End of 2011

Port of Los Angeles staff members are recommending that harbor commissioners push back until the end of 2011 the first phase of the port’s clean trucks program requiring that employee-only drivers move drayage trucks.

September 27, 2010
BusinessLogistics

Intermodal Traffic Continues Upward Trend

Intermodal traffic increased 16.9% last week from a year earlier, the Association of American Railroads said.

September 24, 2010
BusinessLogistics

Appeals Court Blocks Emissions Limits on Idling Trains

Air quality agencies tasked with reducing pollution in Southern California cannot impose emissions limits on idling trains, a federal appeals court ruled.

September 17, 2010
BusinessLogistics

Intermodal Traffic Improves in Holiday Week

Intermodal traffic rose 18.1% last week from a year earlier, the Association of American Railroads said.

September 17, 2010
BusinessLogistics

Penske Logistics President to Retire

Penske Logistics President Vincent Hartnett will retire and be replaced by Marc Althen, the company said Wednesday.

September 15, 2010
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Wait Times Fall at So. Calif. Ports

Container pick-up turn times for drayage operators at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are improving due to additional gate openings, increased staff and flex lunch hour shifts, motor carriers and terminal operators said Monday. 

September 14, 2010
BusinessLogistics

Rail Executives Pledge More Investment in Freight Corridors as Economy Improves

NEW YORK — Railroads large and small gave investors two consistent messages — economic growth will be slow but steady, and they will continue their commitment to investing in new projects such as freight corridors.

September 13, 2010
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Intermodal Traffic Rises 18% for Week

Intermodal traffic jumped 18% last week, the Association of American Railroads reported.

September 10, 2010