Going “green” will be more than a buzz word for logistics managers in the coming years, said leading decision-makers this week at eyefortransport’s two-day “Green Transportation & Logistics Summit. The event featured a number of speakers who gave rather dire warnings about the risks of non-compliance.

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Global logistics services provide Kuehne + Nagel said yesterday it is continuing to expand in Russia, by introducing a branch in Kaliningrad and an airfreight office at Moscow Domodedovo International Airport.

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Before looking to reregulate United States freight railroads, Congress needs to consider the fact that United States-based shippers actually pay lower rates than any other country, according to William J. Rennicke, director of Oliver Wyman, a Boston-based management consultancy.

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 Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico was up 10.5 percent in July 2007 compared to July 2006 and reached $61.8 billion, according to data released by the United States Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) this week.

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Freight railroad traffic volumes on United States railroads were down slightly for the week ending September 22 compared to the same week last year, according to data released by the Association of American Railroads (AAR) today.

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Key growth priorities that midsize retailers should focus on. “Thinking big- Midsize Retail Firms and the Challenges of Growth” .

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Retail solutions provider Business Computer Projects Ltd has developed a flexible solution to give retailers the speed, reliability and financial benefits of using Broadband for online authorisation of card payment transactions and Paypoint Services.

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It took the federal government nearly 70 years to rewrite regulations governing truck drivers’ hours-of-service (HOS). It may take the feds at least another year for their rewrite to pass legal muster.

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The American Trucking Associations (ATA) recently reported that its seasonally-adjusted for-hire Truck Tonnage index was down 0.8 percent in August after being up 0.3 percent in July. 

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