On the other hand, I could bring in the wearied freight-train men who had lain out all night.
FedEx will raise its U.S. freight-shipping costs by 6.9% starting early next month.
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Railroads are enjoying a freight-hauling bonanza, which enables them to boost capital spending.
Another good Sarbox play, says Fox, is Sirva, a moving and freight-forwarding company.
They saw off a rival bid from National Basketball Association team owner Mark Cuban and Houston freight-forwarding executive Jim Crane.
Normal or high speed, passenger or freight - even the next generation of ultraspeed vehicles travelling at more than 250 mph.
By next year a quarter of Deutsche Post's turnover is expected to come from logistics (freight-forwarding and the like), up from almost nothing last year.
After all, not only is the airline America's biggest freight-carrier to Asia, but it is the only convenient air access for big swathes of the mid-west.
Chief Executive Mark Woodward said: 'We managed to effect the temporary repairs sooner than expected, which enabled her to operate a freight-only service to Heysham this morning.
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Winning an open-skies freight deal could also open the way to creating a British freight-carrying airline, at which Mr Souter may eventually want to try his hand.
It makes a tidy little profit, but could earn much larger sums if the previous owners' dream of turning it into a big freight-handling base can be made a reality.
An increase in traditional freight-train traffic was slowing up rail service, so potatoes that were top-grade when they were loaded in Idaho were mashed--and not by design--when they arrived in Philadelphia.
Just about every major oil services company and at least one major integrated oil company have been swept up in an ongoing U.S. government investigation Swiss freight-forwarding company Panalpina World Transport Holding.
Most long-term predictions suggest that, despite weak growth over the past couple of years, the total of freight-tonne kilometres flown will expand by around 6% a year over the next couple of decades (see chart).
After levelling off in March, the amount of goods hauled by trucks - known as freight volumes - fell once again in April and May.
Through a strategy of acquisition and diversification, he has transformed the group into Europe's biggest rail-freight operator, Germany's biggest bus operator, and the world's number two in airfreight and number three in sea-freight.
The key to unlocking Europe's rail-freight potential lies in co-ordinating its Byzantine network of 30 national railways, each with its own standards, fare structure and regulations.
The exhibition is housed in an outdoor, temporary structure made from sea freight containers -- a reminder of the fact that the artists involved in the project come from a very poor district of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
Continental Airlines (nyse: CAL - news - people ) is testing similar technology on its transatlantic flights, and Federal Express, Airborne Freight (nyse: ABF - news - people ) and other freight carriers have participated in earlier ADS-B tests.
An IATA programme known as e-freight aims to do for cargo what e-tickets have done for passengers.
The Baltic Freight Index, which tracks dry-bulk freight rates, was at its lowest in nearly a decade in August.
All is at a delicate equilibrium, until the owner feels compelled to give in to a firmly worded request from the retailer for an additional discount, or a demand to air-freight, at manufacturer's expense, some boxes of shirts that suffered a two-week production delay and now won't be accepted by the retailer if they're any later than they already are.
The county won control of the air-freight park and may be able to reuse it.
Nevertheless, Pacific National's arrival as a tough, competitive rail-freight operator has put the trucking companies on their toes.
His next step was to integrate the rail-freight transport system with the ports.
And consumer tastes for out-of-season vegetables, exotic fish and fresh flowers have also added to the demand for air-freight services.
In January, the French and Italian governments announced that they would revive a project for a rail-freight corridor between Lyons and Turin.
Rail-freight capacity will be more than doubled, from today's 20m tonnes a year to 52m, and passenger journeys shortened by 90 minutes.
We have also developed COSAC-AWB (Air Way Bill) and COSAC-Customs, to facilitate the industry adoption of digital air way bills and eventually e-freight.
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