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Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Q:My company is in the freight bill payment proce

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Thank you for your good work on the Nov. 3 article on the

WASHINGTON -- The fate of the long-proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas may be decided this week

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.What will the logistics field look like in 10 years? The

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Is there finally a recovery in the U.S. economy after a d

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Petitioners operating as NVOCCs seeking the ability to do

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.The Oct. 27 editorial ("Wild Things") offered great poeti

How would you define "supply-chain security?" Today whenever I ask that question of importers, the f

OTTAWA - Canada's shippers, ports and ocean carriers are finding out why waiting for the federal gov

Container ports are a national treasure. They efficiently handle low-cost imports that make American

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.The Carmack controversy that Traffic World has highlighte

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.John Gallagher''s article, "Network Builder" (Oct. 27), m

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Q:I am a broker and have a customer who ships foo

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Perhaps the most telling thing about the praise for James

I was recently asked a perfectly intelligent question: "A terrorist isn't going to tell you he's put

The urgent need to "do something" after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks led to a flurry of new laws,

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.We journalists often are accused of not knowing nearly as

Following last year's 10-day lockout of West Coast dockworkers, one might think the International Lo

The recent introduction of terrorism insurance has created a backlog of unanswered inquiries from vi

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.The good news for some transport interests is that the Bu

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Q:This regards your July 7 discussion about wheth

Companies face a cascade of information about corporate social responsibility and business ethics. T

What is shaping up as the most significant development in U.S. ocean transport regulation since the

What is the future of e-commerce in the ocean shipping industry? Compared with what other industries

McLean was ahead of his timeIn the Sept. 29 Journal of Commerce, you correctly noted the ind

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.American manufacturing jobs may be being exported oversea

LONDON - The recent television coverage of skirmishes between riot police and longshoremen in Rotter

Immediately after Congress returned from its August recess, a bipartisan group of senators introduce

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.The Transportation Security Administration barely had the

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Each year BP Chemicals sells more than 25 million tons of

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Vitran President Tom Nagel (Letters, Sept. 29) had to chu

The hottest trend in corporate "C" positions is the chief security officer, or "CSO, " which continu

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.With the recent cargo security disaster of Charles McKinl

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.Q:I just finished reading your Aug. 18 column in

NVOs aren't the problemAlthough I wholeheartedly agree with Peter Tirschwell ("Two years lat

One day in 1968, when Mike Diaz was with American Export Lines, he was visited by consultants from M

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.The worst event in freight transportation in the last mon

Once again, thanks to the debacle at Canadian National Railway's main Brampton Intermodal Terminal o

Copyright 2003, Traffic World, Inc.When it comes to choosing carriers, thousands of smaller

Your credit card can buy goods from over 1 million outlets. Your telephone can call 2.2 billion othe