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Fleetmatics Debuts Hosted Platform for Service Fleet Management

Fleetmatics Group PLC has released a new software platform to support truck-fleet management by mobile workforces.

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CaroTrans Adds Weekly, Direct Connection Between New York and Marseilles

CaroTrans, the non-vessel operating common carrier and ocean freight consolidator, has expanded its less-than-containerload and full-containerload services between the U.S. and France, with the addition of a direct, weekly New York-Marseilles service.

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Southeastern Freight Lines Equips Tractors With Onboard Mobile System

Southeastern Freight Lines, a provider of regional less-than-truckload (LTL) services, has equipped its fleet of 2,850 tractors with an upgraded onboard mobile system.

DHL Deploys Helicopters for Deliveries in Los Angeles

DHL has launched a helicopter service to provide early-morning delivery to several major banking customers in downtown Los Angeles.

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Will New U.S. Regulations on Rail Shipments of Oil Prevent More Explosions?

A week after a train loaded with crude oil from North Dakota exploded in downtown Lynchburg, Va., dumping 30,000 gallons of oil into the James River, the Department of Transportation announced two moves to try to keep this from happening so frequently. It's doubtful that either will make much of a difference in preventing what's become a major safety hazard in the U.S.

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Best Practices Can Help Overcome Transnational Infrastructure Challenges

Transnational infrastructure programs, such as cross-border railway networks and electricity distribution systems, can increase regional trade, prosperity, stability and integration. That is part of the rationale of the Priority Action Plan of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA PAP), encompassing 51 programs and with an investment need of $68bn up to the year 2020. Such programs face formidable challenges, however.

Spain Seeks to Become Integral Logistics Platform

Spain aims to become the major logistics platform for southern Europe and northern Africa, serving the global east-west trade routes, as well as the emerging north-south, according to Rafael Catala, Spanish Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing.

Bamboo Top Alternative Material for Container Flooring

Bamboo is now being utilized in container floors as the rail and intermodal industry continues its drive to improve the environmental and economic efficiency of its operations. A report by the Container Owner's Association has found that the production volume of containers fitted with floors using materials other than the traditional tropical hardwood plywood has gradually risen over the past two years.

Retail Imports to Increase 3.5 Percent in May as Port Labor Talks Set to Start

Import volume at the nation's major retail container ports is expected to increase 3.5 percent in May as negotiators prepare to begin talks on a new contract for West Coast dockworkers, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates.

The Struggle to Turn Airfreight Around

Traditional airfreight has become more difficult to sell. And that is hitting carriers' profits just as passengers are returning and they are laying on more flights.

Google, Amazon in Same-Day Delivery Battle in Los Angeles

Google and Amazon are going head to head over Los Angeles area shoppers, launching same-day delivery services in the area within days of each other.

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