France in pollution law threat FRENCH environment minister Dominique Voynet has called for a tightening up of international controls on the activities of shipping companies presenting a threat to the environment.
Venezuela flood toll rises MORE than 500 people have been killed by raging rivers and mudslides along Venezuela's Caribbean coast, President Hugo Chavez said yesterday, pushing the official death toll from this week's killer storm to over 650.
Stolt Comex Seaway buys ETPM for $300m Stolt Comex Seaway is acquring rival subsea contractor ETPM in a deal worth more than $300m, ending months of uncertainty about the future of the French company.
Carnival rides cruise boom to record earnings BOOM conditions in the cruise market led Carnival Corp to record earnings for 1999 despite more challenging conditions in the fourth quarter of the year, writes Alison Smith.
Weapons oil the wheels A UN Security Council resolution aimed at getting weapons inspectors back into Iraq after a year's absence has cleared the way for the country to increase oil exports next year, even if it rejects the resolution, claim UN diplomats.
Byers reopens Cammell yard but doubts fog Tyne future TRADE and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers was today due to re-open the former Hawthorn Leslie shipyard on Tyneside.
The dark side of road transport. Despite today's possibilities to carry meat over long distances without any loss of quality, millions of slaughter animals still have to suffer during transport on Europe's roads every year.
Maritime
Evergreen swinging into the new year. The Taiwanese shipping line is expanding its fleet and strengthening its presence in Europe to meet expected growth.
The Maersk Sealand merger is complete, after approval by MarAd.
The sale of Scandlines AB of Sweden to Stena Line has been stopped.
More 5500-TEU ships are being ordered, but will scrapping keep pace?
Johnny Saad' is still battling over ownership of CMA CGM.
Coreck Maritime resumes services between Europe and the Far East.
Tricon is adding calls at the Chinese port of Yantian.
Ports and Terminals
The ports of Bangladesh: despite a chronic lack of modern equipment and growing volumes, the unions are strangling further development.
Intermodal
The EU has decided to liberalise rail transport - once again.
ICF will enter the new millenium as a licensed railway company.
Aviation
Kühne & Nagel reports a boom in carrying spare parts for aircraft.
Air Canada takes over CAI.
KLM shows improvements.
Hellmann offers sea-air service between Asia and South America.
Cargo carriers show interest in Airbus Industrie's A3XXF.
The Lufthansa group has improved its performance so far this year.
Air Foyle/Antonov name Western Associates as GSA in Japan.
The dark side of road transport. Despite today's possibilities to carry meat over long distances without any loss of quality, millions of slaughter animals still have to suffer during transport on Europe's roads every year.
Maritime
Evergreen swinging into the new year. The Taiwanese shipping line is expanding its fleet and strengthening its presence in Europe to meet expected growth.
The Maersk Sealand merger is complete, after approval by MarAd.
The sale of Scandlines AB of Sweden to Stena Line has been stopped.
More 5500-TEU ships are being ordered, but will scrapping keep pace?
Johnny Saad' is still battling over ownership of CMA CGM.
Coreck Maritime resumes services between Europe and the Far East.
Tricon is adding calls at the Chinese port of Yantian.
Ports and Terminals
The ports of Bangladesh: despite a chronic lack of modern equipment and growing volumes, the unions are strangling further development.
Intermodal
The EU has decided to liberalise rail transport - once again.
ICF will enter the new millenium as a licensed railway company.
Aviation
Kühne & Nagel reports a boom in carrying spare parts for aircraft.
Air Canada takes over CAI.
KLM shows improvements.
Hellmann offers sea-air service between Asia and South America.
Cargo carriers show interest in Airbus Industrie's A3XXF.
The Lufthansa group has improved its performance so far this year.
Air Foyle/Antonov name Western Associates as GSA in Japan.
The dark side of road transport. Despite today's possibilities to carry meat over long distances without any loss of quality, millions of slaughter animals still have to suffer during transport on Europe's roads every year.
Maritime
Evergreen swinging into the new year. The Taiwanese shipping line is expanding its fleet and strengthening its presence in Europe to meet expected growth.
The Maersk Sealand merger is complete, after approval by MarAd.
The sale of Scandlines AB of Sweden to Stena Line has been stopped.
More 5500-TEU ships are being ordered, but will scrapping keep pace?
Johnny Saad' is still battling over ownership of CMA CGM.
Coreck Maritime resumes services between Europe and the Far East.
Tricon is adding calls at the Chinese port of Yantian.
Ports and Terminals
The ports of Bangladesh: despite a chronic lack of modern equipment and growing volumes, the unions are strangling further development.
Intermodal
The EU has decided to liberalise rail transport - once again.
ICF will enter the new millenium as a licensed railway company.
Aviation
Kühne & Nagel reports a boom in carrying spare parts for aircraft.
Air Canada takes over CAI.
KLM shows improvements.
Hellmann offers sea-air service between Asia and South America.
Cargo carriers show interest in Airbus Industrie's A3XXF.
The Lufthansa group has improved its performance so far this year.
Air Foyle/Antonov name Western Associates as GSA in Japan.
The dark side of road transport. Despite today's possibilities to carry meat over long distances without any loss of quality, millions of slaughter animals still have to suffer during transport on Europe's roads every year.
Maritime
Evergreen swinging into the new year. The Taiwanese shipping line is expanding its fleet and strengthening its presence in Europe to meet expected growth.
The Maersk Sealand merger is complete, after approval by MarAd.
The sale of Scandlines AB of Sweden to Stena Line has been stopped.
More 5500-TEU ships are being ordered, but will scrapping keep pace?
Johnny Saad' is still battling over ownership of CMA CGM.
Coreck Maritime resumes services between Europe and the Far East.
Tricon is adding calls at the Chinese port of Yantian.
Ports and Terminals
The ports of Bangladesh: despite a chronic lack of modern equipment and growing volumes, the unions are strangling further development.
Intermodal
The EU has decided to liberalise rail transport - once again.
ICF will enter the new millenium as a licensed railway company.
Aviation
Kühne & Nagel reports a boom in carrying spare parts for aircraft.
Air Canada takes over CAI.
KLM shows improvements.
Hellmann offers sea-air service between Asia and South America.
Cargo carriers show interest in Airbus Industrie's A3XXF.
The Lufthansa group has improved its performance so far this year.
Air Foyle/Antonov name Western Associates as GSA in Japan.
The dark side of road transport. Despite today's possibilities to carry meat over long distances without any loss of quality, millions of slaughter animals still have to suffer during transport on Europe's roads every year.
Maritime
Evergreen swinging into the new year. The Taiwanese shipping line is expanding its fleet and strengthening its presence in Europe to meet expected growth.
The Maersk Sealand merger is complete, after approval by MarAd.
The sale of Scandlines AB of Sweden to Stena Line has been stopped.
More 5500-TEU ships are being ordered, but will scrapping keep pace?
Johnny Saad' is still battling over ownership of CMA CGM.
Coreck Maritime resumes services between Europe and the Far East.
Tricon is adding calls at the Chinese port of Yantian.
Ports and Terminals
The ports of Bangladesh: despite a chronic lack of modern equipment and growing volumes, the unions are strangling further development.
Intermodal
The EU has decided to liberalise rail transport - once again.
ICF will enter the new millenium as a licensed railway company.
Aviation
Kühne & Nagel reports a boom in carrying spare parts for aircraft.
Air Canada takes over CAI.
KLM shows improvements.
Hellmann offers sea-air service between Asia and South America.
Cargo carriers show interest in Airbus Industrie's A3XXF.
The Lufthansa group has improved its performance so far this year.
Air Foyle/Antonov name Western Associates as GSA in Japan.
John Koskinen, chairman of the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, not only gave a thumbs-up for the country's preparedness but also found some positive aspects of the Y2K challenge - mainly bringing technology into the forefront of business planning. "Y2K is teaching us that top management needs to be more involved in information technology on an ongoing basis since information technology cuts to the very heart of how organizations conduct their business," he said.
The National Mining Association, which represents coal mining companies, promised not to lobby in support of competition-enhancing provisions sought by most of the nation's coal-burning electric utilities, the coal industry's most important customers. Those utilities wish to tie legislative language diluting rail market power to congressional reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Board.
DHL International executives are playing down the impact, but the $5.5 billion IPO by United Parcel Service in November must have been a real eye-opener for the smallest of the four integrators. The company announced that it plans to sell up to 23 percent of the company through its own IPO within three years. The opportunity arose after Japan Airlines announced Dec. 10 that it had sold a 20 percent stake in DHL for $100 million, retaining just 6 percent of the company.
Savvy shippers and their carrier partners, realizing that larger trucks may be years away in the current political reality, increasingly are discussing other ways to generate productivity improvements. According to the Truckload Carriers Association, the No. 1 issue is improving productivity at the shipping-receiving docks. Donald Schneider, president of Schneider National, says that requires only common sense and planning. Schneider offers three solutions for more efficiency at the docks: No-touch freight, more accurate measurements of driver time at the dock, and more drop-and-hook programs.
As they struggle to find a way out of equipment repositioning problems, ocean carriers may discover escape routes through their own back yards, according to P&O Nedlloyd. Arjen Uytendaal, the steamship company's director of international container management, told delegates at a London trade conference that P&O Containers and Nedlloyd Lines have been sharing container inventories for years. The tactic saves money but the prospect of losing control of assets has kept these types of partnerships from being more widespread, he said.
Chemical shippers continue to see poor service from Norfolk Southern and CSX despite improvements in the operating data reported by the railroads. Some comparisons can be made to chemical shippers' woes during the Union Pacific Railroad service crisis in the West two years ago, but so far the term "meltdown" has yet to be used to describe the problems in the East. Chemical customers are hopeful that an open forum meeting in Philadelphia Jan. 11 will be an impetus to better service.
AEI and Danzas may have set the ball in motion but consolidation is far from over in the freight forwarding industry. Skeptics and proponents alike agree that freight forwarding is following the path of other transportation sectors where mega-companies will be formed, dwarfing most competitors. Who the beneficiary is of such mergers remains to be seen. Is it the stockholder? The employees? The shipper? Time will tell.
Less-than-truckload motor carrier Roadway Express has reorganized its information technology department in preparation for an electronic-commerce tsunami in the following years. Much of the restructuring involves personnel. Bob Obee, vice president and chief information officer, says he hopes the results will be to make internal information more accessible to customers. The company outlines several ways it plans to do this, including offering direct consumer home deliveries.
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