American Shipper Magazine / Transport Inland

Chassis crunch

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:06:42 GMT

Short-changed

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:47:32 GMT

Speed bumps

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:52:04 GMT

What to do for an encore?

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:01:58 GMT

The Port of Savannah soared into prominence in the container shipping business back in 1984, when Malcom McLean, then head of United States Lines, made the Georgia seaport, along with New York, one of the two “load centers” for his new “round the world” service operated with a dozen 4,246-TEU “Econships,” vessels designed with short smokestacks so they could slip beneath the old Talmadge Memorial Bridge, since replaced in 1991 by a new bridge with 185-foot air draft.

Slow roll

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:00:09 GMT

Technology as differentiator

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:59:51 GMT

Where the ‘frac’ is my tank?

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:28:17 GMT

Steel-wheeled pipeline

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 05:19:09 GMT

Rail snail mail?

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:42:19 GMT

All points on the compass

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:19:05 GMT

Old Dominion, new frontiers

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:32:24 GMT

Logistics’ helping hand

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:27:58 GMT

Chassis checkout

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:03:34 GMT

CORRECTION: IKEA’s knock on wood

Mon, 21 May 2012 12:57:06 GMT

Making match-back work

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:42:56 GMT

IT in FTZ

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:38:17 GMT

The fork in the road — Part 1

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:08:17 GMT

Sold on sustainability

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:55:00 GMT

IKEA’s knock on wood

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:49:43 GMT

The ubiquitous wooden pallet has been a staple of the shipping industry since the advent of containerization almost 60 years ago, enabling companies to move stacks of goods at one time.
While some shippers have incorporated plastic pallets into their supply chains, the cheap wooden skid still dominates as the shipping platform of choice.
But “wood” and “pallet” together are dirty words in the vocabulary of Swedish retailer IKEA, which has made taking better care of the environment a guiding principle for doing business. This year, the seller of contemporary, ready-to-assemble, flat-pack furniture, will complete the phase out of wood pallets from its logistics network as part of its forest preservation efforts.

Charged up

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:09:29 GMT