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For the commercial transportation business, moving things from point A to point B is job one. This coverage explores all of those movements at a global level and focuses on everything from global trade, ocean shipping, and port activity to intermodal business, rail operations and the greater supply chain.
 

Business, Logistics

Forward Air’s Second-Quarter Income Rises

Forward Air Corp.’s second-quarter net income rose to $14.2 million, or 48 cents a share, from $12 million, or 40 cents, a year ago.

July 20, 2012
Business, Logistics

Hub Group’s Profit Rises on Stronger Logistics, Intermodal Operations

Hub Group Inc.’s second-quarter profit rose 18% as its intermodal and logistics operations improved.

July 20, 2012
Business, Logistics

Existing Home Sales Drop in June

Existing home sales declined 5.4% in June, an eight month low, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday.

July 19, 2012
Business, Logistics

Union Pacific’s 2Q Earnings Rise 28%

Union Pacific Corp. said Thursday its second-quarter profit rose 28% to $1 billion, or $2.10 a share, from $785 million, or $1.59, a year ago.

July 19, 2012
Business, Logistics

CSX Reports Higher 2Q Income

CSX Corp.’s second-quarter earnings rose as growth in container-car shipments eased the effects of sliding coal volumes, Bloomberg reported.

July 18, 2012
Government, Business, Logistics

Kansas City Southern’s 2Q Profit Improves

Kansas City Southern’s second-quarter earnings rose to $120 million, or $1.09 a share, from $71 million, or 64 cents, a year ago.

July 17, 2012
Business, Logistics

Ingram Micro Agrees to Purchase BrightPoint

Technology distributor Ingram Micro Inc. said it has agreed to purchase BrightPoint Inc., a provider of logistics services to the wireless industry, for about $840 million, the companies announced in a joint statement July 2.

July 16, 2012
Business, Logistics

GE Capital Sells Last 27,000 U.S. Trailers from TIP Fleet to Trio of Companies

Investor Wood Creek Capital Management, along with Bowman Sales and Equipment Inc. and Milestone Trailer Leasing, last week bought 27,000 U.S.-based trailers from GE Capital, continuing the transformation of the highway leasing market.

July 16, 2012
Business, Logistics

Second-Quarter Surge Has Intermodal on Pace for New Record

This story appears in the July 16 print edition of Transport Topics.   Intermodal shipments that surged late in the second quarter have pushed 2012 truck/rail freight volume ahead of the record pace set in 2006, the Association of American Railroads reported.

July 16, 2012
Business, Logistics

Intermodal Traffic Rises 5.6% for Week

U.S. intermodal traffic rose 5.6% last week, the Association of American Railroads reported.

July 13, 2012