TRANSPORT/AIR
More air cargo security delays
Virgin Atlantic pares cargo operations

TRANSPORT/INTEGRATORS
DHL shifts to service
Details scant on Exel acquisition

TRANSPORT/INLAND
Thinking out of the box
Weighty issue for truckers

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Editorial

What Rose knows
Peter J. Rose and co-founders of Expeditors International of Washington Inc. started with $300,000 "and a very debonair attitude." Ternty-five years later, they've built a logistics giant reporting $3.3 billion in tevenue in 2004. Its nearly 10,000 employees in 183 offices operate in what Rose calls 'comfortability', knowing Expeditors is not for sale.

Beyond the green lane
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert Bonner's recent statement that he intends to hold corporate officers accountable for upholding commitments to impose cargo security requirments on foreign suppliers marks another important building block for the agency's inspection-free "green lane." But many importers complain that trying to find the green lane's benefits is like folowing the yellow brick road in search of Oz.

RFID taking next step
It's highly doubtfulthat Guglielmo Marconi envisioned radio waves would one day revolutionalize the 21st century supply chain/ Yet in 2005, the development of radio frequency identification technologies is finally coming into its own as a viable advancement in logistics and transportation. There are still issues to be overcome, but most in the industry say it's a matter of when, not if, RFID becomes ubiquitous in goods movement.

Size doesn't Matter
Total Terminals International, a partnership between Marine Terminals Corp. and Hanjin Shipping, operates the biggest , newest and busiest container terminal in Long Beach. Across the channel, Long Beach Container Terminal, older and one-third the acreage, functions in a dramatically different way. The terminals show how stevedoring tenants at the nation's second-biggest port cope with the transpacific trade's oceangoing behemoths.