Comparing current and prior data points is a key component of measuring performance, but which prior period is used for the comparison makes all the difference. The primary ways to compare financial performance and operating metrics are on a year-over-year…
The security breach at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday involving a driver who crashed through a fence and led police on a chase across two runways occurred in the airport’s cargo area, according to local newscasts. A gray Mazda…
Dachser Mexico announced it has launched a weekly less-than-container load (LCL) service between Mexico and Brazil aiming to provide customers with reliable transport, with cargo typically arriving at the destination port in 22 days. The new LCL service will be…
Maritime and supply chain service provider Crowley Maritime Corp. announced on Friday it has established a $2.5 million endowment at the University of North Florida (UNF) to create and operate a logistics center. The goal is to give students hands-on…
FedEx Express (NYSE: FDX) will invest in 20 more cargo jets as e-commerce continues to drive global growth for the parcel sector. Chief Operating Officer Raj Subramaniam said during Thursday’s briefing on the company’s quarterly results that FedEx is exercising…
On today’s episode, Dooner and The Dude are talking about the logistics behind staging rockets with Tony Sabatino, lead crane technician/operator, and Ray Zink, manager of spaceflight technical operations for Jacobs. “The Witty Farmer” Jenny Sauer-Schmidgall shares how she’s built…
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) officials on Thursday said that overflow shipments from a saturated truckload market contributed to record fourth-quarter results for the less-than-truckload unit but blamed a messy service suspension for some customers on rivals’ earlier cancellations that dumped…
The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, 71 years ago today. It is often termed “the Forgotten War” in the United States. Coverage of the conflict was censored and decades later it is largely overshadowed by World War II…
Rivals CN (NYSE: CNI) and Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP) each are claiming that they have the support of Upper Midwest grain shippers in the battle over which railway gets to merge with Kansas City Southern (NYSE: KSU). Kansas City Southern…
Remember a Stephen King gut bomb by the hyperactive title “Maximum Overdrive” in which the villain and only relatable character was a haunted Western Star 4800 gussied up like an irritable Jiminy Cricket? Yeah, me neither. Or at least I…
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