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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.
 

BusinessLogisticsTCA

DHL to Run New $44 Million Campbell Soup Logistics Hub

The Campbell Soup Co. broke ground Aug. 8 on a $44 million distribution center in Hancock County, Ohio, that officials said will serve as the company’s future Midwest distribution hub.

August 9, 2017
BusinessLogisticsTCA

Port Manatee Sets Container Volume Record With Two Months to Go

Container volume at Florida's Port Manatee reached a full-year record for the first 10 months of its current fiscal year.

August 8, 2017
BusinessLogistics

Unishippers Adding Staff with Move to New Facility

Unishippers Global Logistics is moving into a larger facility that will enable it to double the size of its corporate sales and customer support departments.

August 7, 2017
BusinessSafetyLogistics

Analysis: In Brazil, Highway Robbery Is a Growth Industry

Forget Blackbeard and the Amazon River pirates. Some of the most fearsome and efficient New World predators these days navigate the asphalt.

August 7, 2017
GovernmentLogisticsTCA

Minnesota DOT Hopes Trump’s Infrastructure Promise Can Fix Its ‘Can of Worms’

The Trump administration’s $1 trillion infrastructure promise is starting small — with a reboot — and shifting greater responsibility onto states and municipalities.

August 7, 2017
BusinessEquipmentLogistics

From Worst to Best: A Shipbuilder's Fortunes Turn Around

Yangzijiang Shipbuilding Holdings Ltd., which specializes in dry-bulk carriers, has rallied 83% in 2017 to lead the benchmark Straits Times Index. The Chinese shipbuilding firm has made a comeback after it won 13 contracts worth $318 million in the first quarter, about 40% of its $823 million worth of orders it won last year.

August 7, 2017
BusinessTechnologyLogisticsAutonomous

This E-Commerce Company Pays for Warehouse Worker Weddings. Will the Perk Survive Automation?

Tech entrepreneurs have long lavished perks on coders and engineers, the free massages, ping pong tables and free food of Valley lore.

August 7, 2017
BusinessLogisticsTCA

CSX Rail Hub in North Carolina Expected to Create 1,500 Jobs

An intermodal CSX rail hub proposed for Rocky Mount will bring 1,500 jobs to North Carolina.

August 7, 2017
BusinessTechnologySafetyLogisticsTCA

Channel Pilots Use Simulator to Practice With Behemoth Neopanamax Ships

Capt. Tom Goodwin stood on the bridge of an oil tanker and looked upon the familiar Bayport Container Terminal. But instead of peering out a vessel’s front windows, he was in a high-tech simulator gazing intently at 13 monitors.

August 4, 2017
GovernmentBusinessLogistics

Power Lines Across River Won’t Short-Circuit Quest for Bigger Ships at Jacksonville Port, Officials Say

The high-voltage power lines that span Florida's St. Johns River and touch down on Blount Island were installed long before the Jacksonville Port Authority landed business from ocean-crossing cargo ships whose size is growing in leaps and bounds.

August 4, 2017