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CaroTrans Initiates Four LCL Services From China to Chile

CaroTrans, a non-vessel operating common carrier and ocean freight consolidator, has introduced four direct, less-than-containerload services from China to Valparaiso, Chile.

Virgin Atlantic Cargo Resuming Daily Flights From Cape Town, South Africa

Virgin Atlantic Cargo has resumed its winter season flights from Cape Town, South Africa.

U.S. Celebrates Re-shoring, But Mexico Crashes the Party

On its way back to the U.S. from China, might manufacturing take a detour into Mexico? Does our neighbor south of the border stand ready to quash the Great American Industrial Revival?

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The Indispensable Supply Chain Leader

Stanley Fawcett, visiting professor of global supply chain management at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, discusses five key qualities that make a supply chain leader indispensable to an organization and offers tips on how companies can identify and nurture these employees.

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Logistics Clusters Drive Value and Growth

Professor Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, describes the development of logistics clusters and their considerable economic advantages, which include the creation of steady, well paying jobs for both blue- and white-collar workers.

U.S. Xpress Expands U.S.-Mexico Cross-Border Services

U.S. Xpress Enterprises Inc. plans to expand its offering of U.S.-Mexico cross-border services through two new deals with Mexican providers.

Is This the Unlikeliest Place to Put a Manufacturing Plant?

What does it take to convince a manufacturer to locate a plant in the U.S.? How about in California, one of the most highly regulated and difficult states in which to operate? (It ranked 40th in CNBC's latest survey "America's Top States for Business." What about the San Francisco Bay Area, with its prohibitive cost of living, high population density and even more onerous regulatory environment?

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Canadian Pacific Donates $1M to Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts

Canadian Pacific is donating $1m to various organizations active in relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey.

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Logistics, Freight Forwarding Market in Recovery, Survey Says

Logistics service providers and freight forwarders are optimistic that the economy will continue to grow, and provide opportunities for expansion in 2013, according to a survey by Transport Intelligence, a global logistics research firm, and Kewill, a provider of trade and logistics software.

U.S. Vessel Imports Drop 6.8 Percent in October

U.S. import volume in October, measured in twenty-foot-containers, is down 6.8 percent from September and another 4.8 percent from October of last year. This is total of 1,433,446 containers imported.

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