Logistics Management - July 1, 2001

A wave of consolidation continued to sweep over the third-party logistics (3PL) industry this past year as a number of key players either merged or entered into acquisition talks. Overseas contract distribution providers, in particular, sought to solidify their position in the U.S. market by purchasing U.

• Columns
• Bohman On Pricing
• GRIs are in the offing
• Currie On Hazmat
• New U.N. group to review chemical labeling

• Departments
• Market Watch
• Market Watch
• New Products and Services
• Software
• New Products and Services
• Up Front
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• Viewpoint
• Transportation challenges

• Features
• Cover Story
• Software: Still hot in a cool economy
• TL market: No place for the weak
• Ocean: Struggling to keep up
• Steering through the storm
• Air Freight: Turbulent times
• Railroads: Balancing act
• LTL carriers: Can they survive an economic downturn?
• Logistics Technology
• Members Only
• Logistics Trends
• Colleges say IT's essential
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• It pays to be neighborly
• Ocean Freight
• Sea change

• Global Logistics
• International Insights
• Crossing the southern border, step by step

• News
• New rules raise the bar for rail mergers
• Alliances
• Alliances
• Border Lines
• Border Lines
• Hazardous Materials
• Clearer rules on loading, unloading proposed
• Logistics Briefing
• People
• Services
• Logistics Business
• Slowdown leads to cost cutting
• Materials Handling
• Acquisition creates multinational materials-handling giant
• NAFTA
• House clashes with Bush on Mexican truck access
• Safety
• Report suggests 12 steps for improving brakes
• Supply Chain Management
• Consultants rule supply chain services market
• Winners circle
• Winners Circle
• e-Commerce
• Three dot-coms become dot-bombs