A.M. Executive Briefing - Jan. 7
This Morning's Headlines:
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UPS Set to Deliver Advice Via Television
A United Parcel Service-sponsored half-hour television program for online merchants called "Working the Web" will begin airing next week on the "digital lifestyle" cable channel ZDTV. UPS Vice President of Advertising Peter Fredo said the parcel carrier's aim was to assist businesses in getting and staying online with everything "from order management to Web front-end development and maintenance."The television program and Web site will cover government, legal, and business news related to e-commerce. Both business-to-business and business-to-consumer operations will be addressed in the program. Journal of Commerce (01/07/00) P. 4; Atkinson, Helen
Panel to Look Into California Fuel Prices
Vic Sward, president of the California Trucking Association, has been named to the state Attorney General's Task Force on California Gasoline Pricing.The roughly 25-member panel, which will help the state Justice Department probe California gasoline pricing and will recommend ways to make the state less sensitive to outages at refineries, will meet for the first time Jan. 13 in Sacramento. Another responsibility of the task force, whose final report is due in April, will be to assist with the agenda for a March fuel-price summit in California. Heavy Duty Trucking Online (01/07/00)
Airborne to Impose 3% Fuel Surcharge
A 3% fuel surcharge on U.S., Canadian, and international express shipments will go into effect Feb. 7 at Airborne Express. The company said the surcharge will impact only shipping charges. Journal of Commerce (01/07/00) P. 6Kaptur Studies Railroad's Plans in East Toledo
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) toured East Toledo on Wednesday with local officials who want her to help them head off the planned reopening of a disused railroad line by Norfolk Southern. The officials say if the line reopens to trains it would jeopardize industrial development there because a critical trucking route was to be built along part of the track's right-of-way.The nonprofit River East Economic Revitalization Corp. finished negotiations on purchasing the stretch of right-of-way just before Norfolk Southern called off pending sales of real estate due to its deal to purchase Conrail with CSX Transportation. In 1999, Norfolk Southern said it was thinking about reviving the rail line so an NS yard in Oregon would be linked with the old main line of Conrail.
Local leaders opposed the reopening of the line because they believed the trains would be dangerous to children and would exacerbate congestion by blocking streets. Norfolk Southern said it thinks train congestion will be lessened if the line is reopened and does not intend to reconsider unless someone presents "a better idea," said an NS spokesman. Toledo Blade Online (01/06/00); Patch, David
Clarke and Canadian National Launch Third-Party Logistics Joint Venture Spanning Freight Market in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico
Canadian National Railway and the Canadian transportation and logistics company Clarke have launched the joint venture Clarke Logistics. The new venture creates a single source for shippers using rail and over-the-road service within Canada, Mexico, and the continental United States.Clarke's equity stake in Clarke Logistics is 80%, with the remainder split evenly between CN and the railroad's truck-brokerage subsidiary Transci Transportation Systems. Canada NewsWire (01/06/00)
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