Posts Tagged ‘trucking logistics’
Monday, April 26th, 2010
Air freight carriers are moving air cargo across European skies once again after almost a week of being essentially frozen in place due to air spaces across Europe being closed due to dangerous volcanic ash that can clog airplane engines and cause other problems. The backlog of freight that needs to be moved is going to take a certain amount of time considering the finite amount of capacity that exists to move air freight in Europe and surrounding regions. Transporting a portion of the freight by trucking transport is one idea that’s being thrown around as away to reduce the backlog of air freight and the amount of time that it will take to get the backlog of freight cleared. In fact, the idea is considered by many in Europe’s freight industry to be the best solution for the current problem with time sensitive air freight that needs to make it to destination before it begins to spoil.
Estimates by many freight industry professionals suggest that the backlog of air freight could take as long as two weeks to clear. Unfortunately, a percentage of this air freight isn’t going to be able to wait for two weeks and they’re probably going to have to prioritize the freight. Transporting a large percentage of the freight that isn’t as time sensitive seems like an excellent idea? Also, if you need to, and the timeline involved with the trucking logistics of a shipment works, moving a percentage of the freight by trucking services could probably work as well. They need to find away to remove the weekend ban on trucking in some regions of Europe, if this idea is going to work though. At present trucking movements are going to be severely hampered over the weekend, when they’ll probably be implementing this idea first and with bans in place the job is going to be difficult.
http://www.ifw-net.com/freightpubs/ifw/ind…tm_medium=email
Tags: freight, freight carriers, freight forwarders, freight moving, freight shipping, freight transport, heavy haul, moving freight, shipping freight, trucking companies, trucking logistics, trucking services, Trucking transport
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
2010 is here and there are changes occurring in the trailer trucking services coming in and out of Japanese hi-tech manufacturer Fujifilm’s warehouses in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Fujifilm just awarded an outsourcing contract to trucking logistics provider Kuehne + Negal (KN) to take care of the warehouse management, customs brokerage and small but important items like making sure labelling is correct and such things. Current plans call for the inventories in Fujifilm’s warehouses in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to be brought together in KN’s warehouse facilities in Chorzow. There’s hasn’t been any annoucement about possible job losses due to the outsourcing of services to KN, so hopefully everybody will still have a job when the dust clears.
Kuehne + Negal also just resigned with Concha Y Toro, the top wine maker and exporter in Latin America, to continue taking care of making sure their products reach destinations around the world for a further three years. KN has handled Concha Y Toro wine imports for the last ten years. Plans call for Concha Y Toro’s wine to be stored at KN Drinks Logistics’ Hams Hall facility in the United Kingdom before being loaded onto trailer trucking units and delivered to customers around Europe.
This should allow Fujifilm to improve the logistics of their operations since everything will be handled by a freight logistics firm known for outstanding services. Possible financial benefits will of course have to wait until we see how the deal works out for Fujifilm, but they should be able to save a few dollars with this move.
http://www.kn-portal.com/about/media/news/…film_in_poland/
http://www.kn-portal.com/
http://www.ifw-net.com/freightpubs/ifw/ind…tid=20017753082
Tags: trailer trucking, trucking logistics
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
The second big storm to hit the east coast in a week is still slowing down freight carriers; Delaware still is under a state of emergency that precludes most trucks from traveling in the state, including I-95. Package delivery services suspended service to some affected areas, including Maryland and the District of Columbia and many trucking firms with hubs in the mid-Atlantic had to shut down operations.
However, another storm is brewing in Europe, one that is man-made; customs workers in Greece are slated for a three-day strike next week, protesting budget cuts by the Greek government. That will cut off any seagoing traffic going into the country and cut off interstate transport coming from Turkey and the rest of the Middle East from its main land route with the EU.
The Greek government has run a massive deficit and has implemented an austerity plan to close the deficit, which includes a pay freeze for government workers, including the striking customs workers as well as only replacing 20% of retiring workers. The large deficit has put downward pressure on the Euro, as Greece has the Euro as its currency; the rest of the EU is debating whether to do anything about the Greek government’s deteriorating financial position.
Without any outside help, budget cuts are the government’s best solution, but one that angers the unions that helped put the current government into office. That will mean trucking logistics will be made very problematic in the weeks to come as militant public-sector unions protest having to bear the brunt of the country’s budget woes.
Sources: http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/…/updates12.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8508688.stm
http://www.handyshippingguide.com/shipping…-next-week_1283
http://www.breakbulk.com/content/?p=1219
Tags: freight, freight carriers, freight forwarders, freight moving, freight shipping, freight transport, heavy haul, interstate transport, moving freight, shipping freight, trucking companies, trucking logistics, trucking services, Trucking transport
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Trucking logistics firms doing business in the trucking services industry of the United Kingdom are always in need of talented people with great training to keep their business healthy and profitable. A new apprenticeship plan operated by the government could be just the thing to help trucking logistics firms find the employees they need and train them on the job, where the work ultimately has to be done. The benefits of training on the job are considerable for both the employer and employee, especially the young British workers, which are the main target of this new plan.
The numbers are significant for firms deciding to make use of the grants provided by the British government, firms can recieve almost $4,000 American toward the apprenticeship of young British workers between the ages of 16 and 17. The grants will only be up for grabs until the end of March, so firms thinking about using the plan to put a few more young British workers on the job and providing the company with outstanding assets, should get to work.
The freight industry of the United Kingdom is still in the clutches of the worldwide recession, at the moment, but when the financial crisis lessens, firms that make use of this program will have assets to help them take advantage of the increase in business. This apprenticeship plan should give British firms plenty of reasons to begin looking at adding a few apprentice workers to their work force, so that they’ll be ready to handle the increase in freight business once the recession releases its hold on the freight industry.
http://www.ifw-net.com/freightpubs/ifw/ind…tid=20017745599
http://www.skillsforlogistics.org/forms/homepage/index.html
http://www.skillsforlogistics.org/en/index…EntryId4=334005
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
The Eurotunnel is a trucking logistics dream for European trucking transport firms that bring goods back and forth across the channel. 2010 will mark the 16th year since the Eurotunnel first began operations and the 15 electrically-powered shuttles that bring freight back and forth across the England Channel have been going at it 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, since that time. The truck shuttles go back and forth across the English Channel an average of 160 times every day, rain or shine, and close to 60,000 times each year. Almost a million trucks are brought across the English Channel every year using the Eurotunnel and this number is expected to stay steady or improve in the future. In fact, the Eurotunnel leads the world in the number of container transports that are transported using its truck shuttle service.
Yesterday, the Eurotunnel reached a milestone marker in its history when the fifteenth million truck was loaded onto a truck shuttle and brought across the English Channel to the City of Folkestone. A historic moment in freight transport history that will be remembered in the years ahead, especially when we reach similar milestones in the history of the Eurotunnel, the transportation of the fifteenth million truck on the truck shuttle service of the Eurotunnel will mark a time when we celebrated the success of the dream that is the Eurotunnel. A dream that has provided a safe way to move freight from the European continent to the British Isles and back, the Eurotunnel was once considered a mad dream by many. Yet today, many truckers would be working somewhere else or in another industry if they weren’t sitting in a truck waiting to be loaded onto a shuttle heading across the English Channel through the Eurotunnel.
The Eurotunnel was a dream that just had to wait for its time and the past sixteen years has been part of a time when the Eurotunnel transformed the industry of freight trucking. What’s next for the Eurotunnel? Your guess is as good as mine! One thing we do know is that the Eurotunnel will continue to reach freight transportation roadmarks that astound the mind.
http://www.transportweekly.com/pages/en/news/articles/68868/
http://www.eurotunnel.com/ukcP3Main/ukcCor…ionth-Truck.htm
Tags: container transports, freight, freight forwarders, freight moving, freight transport, heavy haul, moving freight, shipping freight, trucking companies, trucking logistics, trucking services, Trucking transport
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
Earlier this week, plans for a new double-stack compatible rail tunnel between Detroit and Windsor were moving forward; now, the plans for a new bridge between the two cities is moving to the bidding stage, promising to make trucking logistics a bit easier in the years to come. Transport Canada and the Michigan DOT are asking would-be builders to submit a proposal of interest by St. Patrick’s Day.
The large amount of traffic flowing between Michigan and Ontario has been one of the unsung success stories of NAFTA; parts move freely across the boarder, but a lack of space to handle the amount of trucking loads going through the Ambassador Bridge and Windsor Tunnel made the new bridge a priority for both countries.
The new Detroit River International Crossing project would be a bit south of the Ambassador Bridge; connections to I-75 will be part of the project on the US side, but a connector project to hook the DRIC to Ontario’s main 401 highway are being done separately.
The DRIC will make it easier to provide trucking services between Ontario and points in the US. With a new facility that is designed with NAFTA levels of trade in mind, trucks should be able to get through customs and across the border much faster than at present. That should translate into lower costs to ship freight to and from Ontario and enable car companies to have a more reliable flow of parts, allowing them to find-tune their just-in-time inventory systems.
Source: http://www.todaystrucking.com/news.cfm?intDocID=23229
Tags: freight, freight forwarders, freight moving, freight shipping, freight transport, heavy haul, moving freight, shipping freight, trucking companies, trucking loads, trucking logistics, trucking services, Trucking transport
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
With the port of Port-au-Prince badly damaged in the recent earthquake, container transport became problematic. However, one firm has taken a page out of the amphibious landings of the past and managed to get containers onto shore by transferring containers on to smaller-draft ships, who then took them directly to a beach; it reminds me a bit of the D-Day landing, where amphibious trucks delivered goods onto the beach from ships out in the harbor. That gives shippers a route to get containers into Haiti when the country needs the help the most.
Trucking logistics is still a major issue in Haiti, as many roads are still blocks and in ill repair after the earthquake. However, as recovery efforts turn to managing the lives of the survivors rather than trying to pull people out of the rubble, one of the priorities will be to fix main roads so that aid can flow in and start to rebuild other infrastructure damaged in the earthquake.
Since the majority of goods are shipped via containers these days, getting a methodology for landing containers is critical, and this ship-to-shore method opens up the port to container delivery. This could wind up becoming a useful technology to get container service into smaller ports that might not be able to accommodate larger container ships. Whether it is economical enough to use on a non-emergency basis is a key question, but it does give shippers a tool to get containers into an area where the shipping infrastructure is either damaged or non-existent.
Source:http://www.joc.com/node/416209
Tags: container transport, freight, freight forwarders, freight moving, freight shipping, freight transport, heavy haul, moving freight, shipping freight, trucking companies, trucking company, trucking loads, trucking logistics, trucking services, Trucking transport
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Thailand is at the crossroads of efforts to take barriers out of the way of bulk trucking between the 21-member Asia Pacific Economic Co-Operation (APEC) members.
Thailand is already one of the best regions to begin and operate a freight business in terms of business expenses, but agencies and other bodies in Thailand want to make it even more attractive for investors by removing red tape and taking barriers out of the way.
Red tape in the customs processes of Thailand have always been a red flag for many freight firms, which has slowed down the movement of freight and increased the cost of transporting international freight.
In order to try to speed up the process of getting across the border Thailand has been trying to set up a useful system of trucking networks between Asian countries doing business in Bangkok. Trucking logistics firms like DHL and TNT have been taking bonded freight across the border of Thailand and working hand in hand with customs officials to streamline the process of getting across the border as quickly as is possible.
TNT and DHL have been reporting an increase in freight volumes heading through Bangkok and then to Europe and other international markets. Especially during the holiday season they reported an increase in the number of freight shipments heading back and forth across the border of Thailand.
The process of getting the freight from Singapore to Bangkok apparently takes about 2.5 days for bonded freight moved by DHL or TNT, but 3 to 4 days for non-bonded freight. This represents a significant difference in costs for firms that arent’ moving bonded freight across the borders of Thailand. TNT’s and DHL’s ability to move trucking loads across the border quicker in comparison to their competition, puts them in a favorable position.
http://info.jctrans.com/jcnet/news/iln/20091119822242.shtml
http://www.wbc-link.com/english/NewsView.asp?id=3807
Tags: Bulk Trucking, freight, freight forwarders, freight moving, freight shipping, freight transport, heavy haul, shipping freight, trucking loads, trucking logistics
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
Trucking logistics in the Southwest are getting strained due to a winter storm hitting Arizona. You normally don’t think of Arizona and winter weather, but the northern part of the state, including Flagstaff, is at high altitude, so snow is not unheard of there. Snow has all-but shut down that part of the state. Further south in the state, the Phoenix area was hit by high winds, shutting down the Russo and Steele auction site in Scottsdale for Friday; the Barnett-Jackson auction was not affected, although vendor sites were closed on Thursday evening.
Flagstaff was hit with 21 inches of snow. Both I-40 and I-17 were closed, as was state route 89A between Flagstaff and Sedona. As a major east-west route, I-40’s closure disrupts a lot of cross-country truck traffic. Such closures mean that freight carriers will have to have their truckers come to a stop, and normal spots for trucks to light, like truck stops and rest areas, are at a premium in such situations. That was compounded by the closure of a number of rest areas for the winter.
In Flagstaff, the main truck stop was full, causing the city government to look for alternative parking spots for trucks, opening up the parking lots of a local mall and of Northern Arizona University for trucks. Elsewhere in the state, truck shelters were opened up to give truck drivers a place to get out of the cold and snow. Sleeper cabs in trucks aren’t well-designed for surviving a snow storm, so alternative measures needed to be taken.
Sources:http://www.azdailysun.com/news/local/artic…1cc4c002e0.html
http://www.truckinginfo.com/news/news-deta…_category_id=17
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20100122/CARNEWS/100129972
Tags: cargo hauler, freight carrier, freight hauler, heavy haul, trucking logistics
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