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Obtaining—and keeping—C-TPAT certification got harder last March, when the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection introduced new and stiffer standards, which apply to new applicants and current C-TPAT members alike.
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.
What we've learned in the last three years was that we were right about the challenges facing our readers, but that we underestimated how much tougher their jobs would soon become.