Chris Barnett

Chris Barnett is a seasoned San Francisco-based freelance journalist who has been covering world trade, transportation, air freight and business travel for 54 years.He has written regularly for the Journal of Commerce, Copley News Service, Los Angeles Times, airline inflight magazines and JoeSentMe,com, a private website for global business travelers.

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World’s largest industrial warehouse owner says customer demand is subdued but improving

Twenty centuries after archeological excavators unearthed the first warehouse—140 rooms covering 225,000 square feet—on the banks of Rome’s Tiber River, San Francisco’s Prologis Inc. introduced the first multi-story storage structure in the US.

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The challenge to electrify California-Mexico truck traffic

California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Advance Clean Fleet’s regulation would require motor carriers with 50 or more big rigs to switch over to electric battery-powered zero-emission trucks. But how to accomplish this on California-Mexico cross border trade is a conundrum.

Equipment Depot: 85 years of material handling breakthroughs and still ahead of the curve
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Industrial warehousing on the rise

Investing in warehousing is on the rise as the need for more space to support supply chain operations increases.

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Aloha Air Cargo to cancel Honolulu - LA - Honolulu freighter June 1

Aloha Air Cargo is exiting its Honolulu to Los Angeles to Honolulu B767-300 freighter service June 1, citing the route’s unprofitability.

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Maersk boosts Wetherell to Global Chief of Air Freight Forwarding

Maersk boosts Wetherell to Global Chief of Air Freight Forwarding, advances Mayhew to lead No. America region

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Air Canada Cargo’s freighter feeder to passenger jet strategy is powering growth

Canadians typically are not drumbeating self-promoters and Air Canada’s management rarely deviates from that description, but the airline’s aggressive, standalone cargo operation recently captured the spotlight for exceptional performance and earned the right to take a few bows on the global stage.

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Hawaii’s air cargo community favors Alaska Air’s pending Hawaiian Air buyout

Sources and insiders say both airlines will maintain their current identities and that if Alaska’s $1.9 billion buyout of Hawaiian Air goes through, they will not combine the brands into a newly named carrier.

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DHL’s temperature-controlled logistics important link in the pharmaceutical supply chain

DHL Forwarding’s (DGF) is laser focused on the demanding logistics of the most time sensitive of all perishables — pharmaceuticals.

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Lynden’s unique mixed modal solutions answer the call of the wild

Lynden, which operates in the wilds of Alaska, the Yukon Territory and Hawaii has a multi modal solution for all freight to all addresses no matter how remote.

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