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Port of NY & NJ takes lead in enhancing performance

The Port of NY & NJ is implementing a neutral chassis-pooling plan to provide better efficiencies in the terminals and beyond.

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New director sees Port of NY & NJ at ‘critical point’ with infrastructure

Molly Campbell the new Port Commerce Director, at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), knows both West and East coast ports and the commonality of building and maintaining the “critical infrastructure” to make them work.

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​Parker advancing customer focus at less-than-truckload leader Saia

While, over his more than three decades in business-to-business sales, Michael C. “Mike” Parker has seen plenty of change in how purchasing decisions are made, he believes the need for a customer-centric approach has never been greater.

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South Carolina Inland Port furnishing cost savings, ‘green’ benefits

From BMW and Michelin to Rite Aid and Dollar Tree, manufacturers and retailers are increasingly looking to the South Carolina Inland Port to save shipping costs while reducing carbon footprints.

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Houston’s Jacintoport offers Puerto Rico trade alternative

In a trade afflicted with sustained decline and a diminished ocean carrier service base, a fortnightly service from Houston’s Jacintoport terminal is offering an alternative to traditional Jacksonville-to-San Juan sailings.

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Terminal Shipping’s Herb grows ship agency from Baltimore roots

Robert A. “Rob” Herb, president and owner of Baltimore-based Terminal Shipping Co. Inc., may jokingly call himself a native “Baltimoron,” but he’s no dummy when it comes to knowing the advantages of Maryland port facilities and serving the needs of a diverse array of shippers.

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Shapiro firm celebrating 100 years as Baltimore customs broker leader

When an ambitious 20-year-old Baltimorean named Sam Shapiro earned his customs broker’s license and opened the door of his own one-room office in 1915, he likely couldn’t have imagined that the family business he founded would now be celebrating a century of industry leadership.

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Sappi’s Swingler keeps it clean in transport of ‘dissolving pulp’

As John Swingler oversees the forest products supply chain, he may not be looking at breakbulk moves of logs and lumber as much as he is focused on containerized shipping and “super-clean” transport of a tree-based commodity used to make clothing.

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Beaver Street Fisheries Inc.‘s Savitz savvily directs seafood supply chain

For nearly a third of a century, Paige Savitz has been hooked on importing seafood for Beaver Street Fisheries Inc. in her hometown of Jacksonville, Fla.

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New Kalmar Ottawa T2 terminal tractor is everything-but-sexy ‘hammer in toolbox’

The Kalmar Ottawa T2 terminal tractor may not be sexy, but the latest generation truck from the folks who invented yard hostlers back in 1958 is everything a trailer-spotting driver could desire.

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