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.
After levelling off in March, the amount of goods hauled by trucks - known as freight volumes - fell once again in April and May.
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 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.
After a disappointing set of Q3 results from FedEx last week driven by overcapacity in the international freight industry and an unfavorable volume-mix in the express package delivery segment, we have adjusted our price estimate for the company.
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 boom in commodities of all kinds, agriculture, metals, energy is like a global freight train hurtling in see-saw motions across our consciousness.
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Trains are run on a similar, manual-block fashion on long, unsignaled sections of freight and passenger railroad in the country, so-called dark territory.
The Baltic Freight Index, which tracks dry-bulk freight rates, was at its lowest in nearly a decade in August.
The pesticide-free cooking roses used by most American chefs come from organic gardeners in California who air-freight them to specialty food suppliers around the country.
On the other hand, I could bring in the wearied freight-train men who had lain out all night.
He also refrained from an across-the-board increase in freight rates.
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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.
His best bearish call in 2006 was one he made on Old Dominion Freight Line (nasdaq: ODFL - news - people ) in the second half of the year, during which time the stock fell 21%.
An inevitable increase in freight costs is not going to wipe out the benefits of manufacturing in low-cost countries abroad.
More than 300, 000 tonnes of freight was flown in and out of the Castle Donington-based airport during 2010.
Last month, the STB commissioned a study of competition in the freight rail industry by a third-party research firm, Wisconsin-based Christensen Associates.
SNCF, which faces competition for freight early next year, in case it leads to a sell-off.
According to Manuel Gomez, president of Mexico's road-freight industry body, Canacar, there are 375, 000 trucks in Mexico and some 7m in the United States.
Bloomberg News reported this week that another little-noticed indicator, rail shipments of waste freight, rose 45% in April and May, the highest increase since 1994.
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.
Mr Corrigan's victory over the unions in the docks war led to a four-fold increase in productivity per worker at Patrick's freight terminals in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, the three eastern ports that handle the bulk of Australia's trade.
Built 30ft above the streets, on a long -abandoned, elevated freight rail line, the public park is now double in size.
As measured by ton-miles, trucks controlled 32% of the nation's freight in 2002, the most recent year statistics are available, while trains delivered 28%.
The simulator, which Schneider launched in mid-2005, pretends that it's assigning freight and gathering orders based on a scenario posed to it by Schneider's analysts.
The 8, 600-employee sorting center in Louisville, UPS' largest for air freight, processes 304, 000 packages an hour but could be modified to handle 500, 000 if UPS could get the planes in and out faster.
While most of the freight will have been flown straight on from last weekend's season-opener in Qatar, the cloud of ash has created a no-fly zone over much of northern and central Europe and made it impossible for many team personnel to reach Japan.
Utilizing up-to-date detection technologies, carriers should again be allowed to carry freight and mail in the same aircraft as passengers.
Impressive growth in air freight is largely a result of growing demand for transportation for high-value and perishable consumer goods.
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