Filed in Supply Chain

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

How are companies managing employees and leveraging the workforce as an asset? A recent survey conducted by Logistics Management and Supply Chain Management Review magazines states how workforce management solutions critically contribute to organizations’ cost management and process efficiency goals. Find out how businesses are optimizing their labor resources to gain competitive advantages over their competition.

The global trading system is experiencing “extraordinary volatility” and this is being reflected in the performance of the freight forwarding industry, said Jon Manners-Bell of Transport Intelligence (Ti), a London-based think tank.

Senate Joint Resolution 33 by State Senator Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach), Chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Ports and Goods Movement, was passed unanimously by the California State Assembly this week

Monday, August 23, 2010

Sea Star Line announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Mark-It Services to equip their reefers with both Global Positioning and Radio Frequency Identifications Systems

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Modex 2012 Coming to Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center; replaces NA in Cleveland

Friday, August 13, 2010

Traditional 3PL services like transportation and logistics don’t cut it when a company wants to enlarge its global footprint. That’s when value added, strategic advice of a 4PL may be needed. But who gets the call?

Monday, August 09, 2010

In a development that would be laughable if it were not so calculatingly devious, the Teamsters have forged a partnership with “progressives” comprising community activists and environmental groups to mandate that independent owner-operator truckers be banned from the ports.

Now that the United States Senate has reached a stalemate of sorts regarding a national energy policy, the subsequent effects of this political stalemate from a transportation and logistics perspective remain to be seen, it seems.

Friday, August 06, 2010

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im) has approved a $250 million working capital loan guarantee for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

More good news surfaced in the domestic rail sector yesterday as Norfolk Southern Corporation reported second-quarter 2010 net income earnings.