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With the country struggling with issues like war and terrorism, a record-setting deficit, and skyrocketing health care costs, transportation is not high on the national agenda. But that hasn't deterred leaders of the National Industrial Transportation League from undertaking what may prove a quixotic quest: the development of a national transportation policy.
He's moved ammo for the army, and he's moved dishwashers for Sears. But Gus Pagonis says that no matter what's in the trucks or on the ships, the same principles of logistics management apply.
For Chiquita Brands, moving 60 million boxes of pineapples and bananas from Central America to U.S. grocers each year is the easy part. The challenge is making sure its refrigerated ships and containers don't return without a payload.
Signs have emerged in the last few months that point to a renaissance for the waterways. Frustrated by highway congestion and a shortage of trucks, shippers are giving the inland waterways another look.
America's sclerotic transportation network is already creating delays and backups during peak shipping periods. So what will happen when the rising tide of low-cost Asian imports hits our shores?
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