GLG News by Intermodal Logistics Experts

 The American Trucking Associations' advanced seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index dropped by 0.9 percent in September, it's third straight month-over-month decline. The details are even worse. The seasonally adjusted index was just 0.8 percent above year-ago levels. September 2007...

Consumer Savings vs. Consumer Spending is a leading indicator for the electronics industry rebound. 

Continuous improvement (CI) in this industry is here to stay, yet when management is concerned about basic functions such as payroll; very few strategic programs are on the radar.       

The food, energy and Biofuels industries all heavily depend on feedstock. I agree with colleagues Mr. Moser and Mr. Timpano regarding food versus fuel, future feedstock’s, food security and sugar cane use for ethanol. After recently attending a Purdue (my alma mater) meeting wearing my Zenergy Bio Fuel...

Britannia Bulk Holdings (NYSE:DWT) published a press release indicating a dire financial crisis at the company.  DWT is an example of issues facing many speculative dry bulk owners.

CSX Chairman Michael Ward recently remarked on the growing opposition to coal fired utilities in the country, saying that limiting coal’s use for electricity "is probably one of the stupidest things you could do." For CSX and the other railroads, it would be a bad thing if the electric utilities turned...

The forecast models used by the industry to predict equipment sales needs a readjustment. The forecasting models included diesel prices, metal prices, industrial production, manufacturer orders and personal income / spending, but they had not used at least one major factor - financing availability -...

With LTL giant YRC Worldwide teetering, the biggest potential winner from any shutdown or wholesale closing of YRC operating units would appear to be Arkansas Best Corp., parent of ABF Freight System. At nearly $2 billion in revenue, ABC (or ABF, which makes up the lion's share of its parent's revenue)...

BNSF railroad recently announced that the company would install Positive Train Control (PTC) technology across its entire system by Dec. 31, 2015 and in the Los Angeles basin by 2012. BNSF had been given approval by the Federal Railroad Administration to install the Electronic Train Management System...

The bankruptcy filing by Industrial Carriers Corp (ICI) is likely to be replicated many times over the next two years, but will not affect a significant percentage of drybulk operators.