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Elemica helps handle capacity constraints

Elemica helps companies prepare for the predicted capacity constraints to streamline, automate, and run dynamic sourcing events for logistics transportation. Its Logistics Sourcing services with Transportation Bid Optimization drive costs out of transportation spending by as much as 20%....

Schneider offers transloading calculator

Shippers in relentless pursuit of reducing cost, gaining efficiencies, and reducing their environmental impact now have a new resource at their fingertips....

TransCore Freight Index again reports gain

TransCore’s North American Freight Index reported a 69% increase in spot market freight availability in October, compared with the previous year. ...

PeopleNet, Trinium form partnership

PeopleNet has announced its partnership with Trinium Technologies, provider of an enterprise management system for both domestic intermodal and international container operations...

Domestic intermodal volume
hits record level in Q3 2010

Intermodal volume increased 20.3% year-over-year in third quarter 2010, as international led the way with a remarkable 28.1% upsurge according to a report released by the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) recently...

Miller opens Cincinnati OH terminal

Miller Transporters announces the opening of its new Cincinnati OH terminal. Paul Dunn, formerly a dispatcher at Miller’s Nitro WV facility, has been selected as terminal manager. He has been with the company since July 2008 after he retired as an Inspector/Instructor Staff First Sergeant with the US Marine Corps....

Buckeye completes LA terminal acquisition

Buckeye Partners LP has completed the purchase of a refined petroleum products terminal in Opelousas LA from Chevron USA Inc. This niche terminal connected to Colonial Pipeline currently supplies central Louisiana with branded gasoline, diesel, and ethanol. Additionally, as a long-term participant in this market, Chevron has made a multi-year commitment to maintain its historic product volumes at the terminal. ...

Diesel fuel’s price reaches
highest level in two years

The national average retail price of diesel fuel surged to its highest level in more than two years, jumping 6.8 cents to $3.184 a gallon, according to US Department of Energy information....

Price of diesel fuel climbs
4.9 cents to $3.116 a gallon

Diesel fuel’s national average retail price resumed its recent upward track after a pause a week ago, rising 4.9 cents to $3.116 a gallon, the highest nationwide pump average in six months, according to US Department of Energy information....

CSA 2010 not just for trucking
companies, J J Keller warns

J J Keller & Associates Inc is warning companies of all types that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new Comprehensive Safety Analysis (CSA 2010) initiative is not just for trucking companies. With the program officially kicking off November 30, the transportation industry and beyond will soon feel the effects of CSA 2010. ...