The Wall Street Journal is reporting that FedEx has announced that it will raise its FedEx Express air-shipping rate by 4.9% effective Jan. 7, 2008. ... View More

Leaving aside the easy predictions (Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense will continue to deploy, tags and equipment will fall in price), I thought it might be interesting to translate a few shifts in... View More

Somewhere in each of the last five books I have written is the phrase, What gets measured gets rewarded, and what gets rewarded gets done. What does this mean to achieving competitive advantage in the... View More

Success in business often hinges on the ability to be flexible in the face of new challenges. This is frequently true when it comes to managing a supply chain. For example, flexibility is often the key... View More

If bigger is better, then todays transportation budgets may be among the best in history. Unfortunately, so are todays over-the-road transportation costs, many of which have hit record highs over the past... View More

If you saw An Inconvenient Truth with Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprios The 11th Hour, then you know global warming is a serious problem. This is a human issue about the extinction of our species and our inability... View More

Shippers in todays environment are receiving increased pressure to reduce costs and deliver better results to company shareholders. Often, one of the first places they look is within the supply chain.... View More

Asia and the Middle East are booming, and trade is increasingly focused on shipping to and from Asia. This poses challenges for both shippers and carriers in every corner of the globe. Shippers need to... View More

These days, everyone wants what they cant see. For logistics managers, visibility is the Holy Grail because it offers the tantalizing promise of better service, higher margins and fewer operational crises.... View More

BRENTWOOD, Tennessee--Ozburn-Hessey Logistics (OH Logistics) announced the expansion of its network with the recent lease of a facility in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, in the Heartland Industrial Park,... View More

Most of America's small- and mid-sized businesses have failed to explore the significant growth opportunities offered by an increasingly global economy. Indeed, a new survey conducted for UPS (NYSE:UPS)... View More

RALEIGH, NC - Purolator USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Canada's largest small package and freight services company, has selected the Raleigh-Durham area for its southeast U.S. regional headquarters. ... View More

ATLANTA- The UPS (NYSE:UPS) Board of Directors announced that Chairman and CEO Mike Eskew will step down at the end of the year and will be replaced by Scott Davis, who is currently the company's vice... View More

BRENTWOOD, Tennessee--Ozburn-Hessey Logistics (OH Logistics) recently hired John J. Hafferty, Jr. as CFO of its International Services group. In this newly-created role, Hafferty will oversee the financial... View More

The following is from the Teamsters Union to their membership: Your Teamsters national negotiating committee met last week with representatives of DHL to begin the historic task of negotiating a new DHL... View More

Years ago I had a boss who told me The problems remain the same. Its only the faces that change. Years of management have taught me the truism of that statement. A few weeks ago it got me to thinking about... View More

ATLANTA, Oct. 2, 2007 - UPS today announced it will become the first package carrier to offer customers a paperless international shipping option as well as a package return capability to 98 countries... View More

GLENWOOD, Illinois--The appointment of John Byrne as chief executive officer of ConData, Inc. has been announced by Jerry Ragsdell, chairman. "As ConData continues to grow in its domestic markets,... View More

Datalogic Mobile, a global player in the Rugged Mobile Computers market, received notification from Cisco Systems that the Pegaso and Falcon 4400 mobile computer products have been certified compliant... View More

WESTPORT, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Velocity Express Corporation, the nation's largest provider of time definite regional delivery solutions, unveiled plans to expand their already extensive national delivery... View More