Listening to a number of analyst conference calls and listening to friends in the transportation sector, we are getting some anecdotes that May volumes could be improving across the board. These sources all point out that it is very early and there could be some “first of the month” impacts that typically can help to [...]
Hong Kong dockworkers at the Kwai Tsing terminal are into their third week on strike, causing heavy disruptions of port truck traffic and significant port delays, particularly for offloading. However, the union said today
Google will roll out its popular Google Fiber internet service to Austin, TX – the second market to receive the service. Fiber was first announced for Kansas City, KS in 2010 and has since rolled out to Kansas City and surrounding cities. The service offers internet access at 1 Gigabyte per second for $70 per [...]
You’ve taken every precaution in securing your technology and IT systems. You have rock-solid firewalls and keep financial data as secure as possible. But, you are vulnerable from an area we don’t think about much: the supply chain. There is a strategic trend in the global supply chain for companies and their partners to [...]
Sales of personal computers dropped by as much as 14% in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period last year – the largest drop in the industry’s history since tracking began in 1994. Additionally, sales have dropped for four
Dockworkers at the port of Hong Kong have now been on strike for over a week, disrupting container traffic at one of the world’s busiest ports. The workers are seeking a pay increase and want to negotiate directly with Hutchison International Terminals (HIT), the port owner. However, HIT says it will not negotiate with the [...]
Fiberoptic cables are slowly gaining adoption as Internet infrastructure, and that adoption will likely speed up based on the recent reception of Google Fiber in the Kansas City area. Several recent enhancements to fiberoptic technology could make the investment in this infrastructure even more attractive. AT&T scientists recently showed off a new process to take [...]
According to Japanese officials, researchers there have successfully extracted methane gas from frozen undersea deposits of methane hydrate. There are large deposits of methane hydrate in various locations worldwide, but until now no one had been able to successfully mine this “fire ice” for usable methane gas. Japan Oil, Gas, and Metals National Corporation will [...]
The deadline for local negotiations between the International Longshoremen’s Association and East and Gulf Coast ports is tomorrow. As mentioned Tuesday, the heaviest negotiations are currently focused on the port of New York and New Jersey. If the deadline is not met, the two sides would either need to extend negotiations, work without a contract, [...]
Natural gas is gaining increased steam as an alternative fuel source. Many trucking companies are testing the fuel in local and even long haul trucking operations, and it has already gained wide adoption in local bus and parcel routes. Now BNSF is testing liquefied natural gas as a fuel source for locomotives. Most of the [...]
