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STORAGE & TERMINALING
, BY RICK WEBER

THE International Liquid Terminals Association (ILTA) will hold its 31st International Operating Conference and Trade Show in Houston, Texas, from June...

2011 ILTA Exhibitors

Booth# Company Name 141 A W Hudson Supply Co Inc 818 A R Watson Inc 642 AC2 Inc 448 Advance Tank & Construction 356 Advanced Polymer Coatings 332 AEC...

BASF forms partnership with MIT center

BASF is establishing a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL). ...

Shippers Condition Index continues to fall

FTR Associates’ Shippers Condition Index (SCI) as reported in the firm’s April Shippers Update continues to decline, reflecting tightening capacity in the trucking sector....

Airgas earns two CGA fleet safety awards

Airgas Inc received two fleet safety awards from the Compressed Gas Association (CGA), the US industrial and medical gas industry’s standard-setting organization for the promotion of safety standards and safe practices....

Increased hiring, rising turnover rate
indicate recovery, ATA economist says

Hiring in the trucking industry picked up in the fourth quarter of 2010, which coupled with an increase in the turnover rate for linehaul truckload drivers portends increased demand for drivers as the economy recovers....

Mobile Manifest gives milk
haulers real-time technology

Dairy.com, provider of web-based dairy industry supply chain systems, has released its milk manifest handling technology called Mobile Manifest....

MATT teams with Volvo Trucks
to recognize trucking safety

Michelin Americas Truck Tires (MATT) is continuing to recognize and promote safety in the trucking industry by partnering with Volvo Trucks to award the 2011 Volvo Trucks Safety Award....

Freight volume up, margins down
in 2010, TransCore survey indicates

The fourth annual TransCore Broker Benchmark Survey revealed that freight brokers on average moved 10% more freight in 2010, while their gross margins declined by 4% compared with the previous year’s survey respondents. Margins improved year-on-year for asset-based brokers, largely due to higher rates in 2010 that benefited their trucking divisions. ...

ATA’s President Graves comments on cross-border trucking program

Following the US Department of Transportation’s release of the details of a pilot program to restart longhaul cross-border trucking program, Bill Graves, American Trucking Associations president and chief executive officer, issued this statement:...