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Soaring fuel costs and security restrictions have pushed the air-cargo industry into retrenchment mode. Still, predictions of catastrophe seem premature.
The battle for shippers' parcel business heated up last month when the U.S. Postal Service announced a major realignment and some important new hires from private industry.
When the results of the State of Logistics Report were released earlier this summer, the report's author, Rosalyn Wilson, announced that logistics costs as a percentage of GDP had risen in 2007, climbing above the 10-percent mark for the first time since 2000.
Shippers looking to crack down on cargo theft are enlisting the aid of high-tech devices. But there's more to it than simply tucking a covert wireless tracker into a shipment.
In June, the Virginia Port Authority fielded a team of volunteers for the 20th annual Clean the Bay Day, an event that aims to clean up Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
Kinedyne Corp. has road tested its cargo straps, slings, and other tie-down products in some of the most extreme conditions truckers are likely to meet.
There's not much logistics managers in the food industry can do about rising fuel costs. But there still may be some things managers can do to make those networks even more efficient.
With prices at the pump rising by the day, distribution professionals are constantly on the lookout for fresh new ways to cut transportation costs. But they might do better to look back to the past.