As a gearhead at heart and accomplished sawdust maker, David L. Wood, vice president of sales, marketing and service for the Americas Region of Kalmar Ottawa Terminal Tractors, firmly believes it pays to like machines.
With its $1 billion-a-year investment in technology, UPS is empowering its intelligent logistics network with more efficient delivery routes that save money and reduce emissions while advancing such leading-edge tools as 3-D printing, drones and robotics.
A new intermodal rail link to begin in September between the North Carolina State Ports Authority’s Port of Wilmington and the CSX intermodal terminal in Charlotte is being touted as a game-changer.
One might be tempted to describe the job of Tyson Foods Inc.’s Perry Bourne as poultry in motion.
With port calls by bigger containerships and growing demands of federal mandates, the drayage business is facing mounting challenges that Jim Kramer, senior vice president for commercial at ContainerPort Group, is tackling head-on.
Historically low US warehouse vacancy rates are driving up rental costs and spurring increased build-to-suit and even speculative development of facilities that, according to industry leaders, can’t be built fast enough to meet demand in many markets.
From West Central Florida, with diverse growth at Port Manatee and new container cranes at Port Tampa Bay, to the Florida Panhandle, where Port Panama City is positioning to double activity and the Port of Pensacola is advancing multiple projects, seaports along the Gulf Coast of the Sunshine State are busy as ever.
Thanks to diversification, ports along the Texas Gulf Coast are managing to stay energized despite the recent softness in the upstream oil and gas sector.
Thanks to diversification, ports along the Texas Gulf Coast are managing to stay energized despite the recent softness in the upstream oil and gas sector. (2 of 2)
With the units Deere & Co. ships getting larger and weightier, David A. Panjwani, the heavy equipment company’s director of worldwide logistics, is up to the task of seeing to it that nothing runs like a Deere supply chain.
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