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IndustryWeek
March 1, 2005
Doug Bartholomew |
Cargo Crunch! Responding to last autumn's gridlock of cargo ships in the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, manufacturers are bringing sourcing back to North America, using more air freight and building inventories.   |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Moon Ihlwan |
Monsters on the High Seas As China's exports swell, Korea and Japan are launching gargantuan container ships. |
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2006
Matt Hudgins |
Railroad Renaissance The surging flow of imports to U.S. consumers is fueling a boom in the century-old railroad industry, and savvy real estate investors are already laying tracks for growth along newly flourishing supply routes. |
National Real Estate Investor
April 1, 2006
Matt Hudgins |
Rising Tide of Imports Importers need new and larger spaces to handle a tidal wave of merchandise. That high demand, along with limited and often constrained supply, attracts developers and investors to the ports. |
BusinessWeek
May 1, 2006
Michael Arndt |
Globalization In A Can "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" makes a strong argument that without the box, the global economy might not exist today. |
CIO
February 15, 2004
Galen Gruman |
One in a Thousand - Location-Based Systems Radio tags can be a cost effective way of taking inventory. |
BusinessWeek
December 9, 2010
Kyunghee Park |
A Trade Rebound Launches Bigger Boats As Asian trade swells, demand for large container ships booms. |
Fast Company
October 2008
Chuck Salter |
Rebuilding the Port of Los Angeles Shipping is a filthy, dangerous business, but Los Angeles, America's largest port, is making it greener, cleaner, and more secure. |
Smithsonian
January 2004
Fen Montaigne |
Policing America's Ports The 19,000 cargo containers flowing into the United States each day pose a needle-in-the-haystack challenge to security officials worried about hidden terrorist weapons. |
BusinessWeek
November 4, 2010
Keane & Park |
The Terrorist Threat in Cargo Containers By 2012, all U.S.-bound cargo containers must be scanned for terrorist threats. Today, fewer than 1 percent are. |
National Defense
November 2007
Sandra I. Erwin |
Homeland Security Policies Overlook Essential Issues, Says Shipping Executive Security industry soothsayers have been sounding alarms about the prospect of a nuclear or biological weapon reaching U.S. shores in a shipping container. |
National Defense
January 2004
Geoff S. Fein |
Fast Cargo Ships Could Halve Trans-Atlantic Trips FastShip Inc., a Philadelphia-based ship design firm, plans to build a high-speed cargo vessel that can cut trans-Atlantic travel time in half. FastShip is a partner with Lockheed Martin in the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship program. |
National Defense
June 2006
Sandra I. Erwin |
Weighing the Costs of Security A smorgasbord of legislation and policy directives aimed at patching up security at U.S. ports in recent years has resulted in expenditures of billions of dollars worth of protective systems and technologies. |
National Defense
November 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Seek the `Perfect Shipping Container' An advanced materials container program is looking at sophisticated composites to create a sensor-studded container that would be 30% to 50% lighter than current equivalents. That would translate into savings for the shippers, as well as added security. |
National Defense
January 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Plan to Protect U.S. Ports Homes In on Contraband The challenge facing the DHS, importers and the shipping industry is to prevent weapons of mass destruction, would-be illegal immigrants and contraband from entering U.S. ports -- including overland traffic from Canada and Mexico -- without disrupting the flow of goods. |
National Defense
December 2004
Joe Pappalardo |
If Ports Are Attacked, U.S. Lacks Plans to Deal With Aftermath The lack of a plan indicates the complexities of handling threats against maritime targets, and the government's emphasis on taking care of airline security and monitoring containers over planning a response in the event of a sea-based attack. |
Inc.
December 2007
Norm Brodsky |
Street Smarts: Do You Really Know Your Problems? Entrepreneurs have a tendency to see what they want to see. |
Food Engineering
May 1, 2005 |
Increasing the safety of the global food supply The US Bioterrorism Act may be the most familiar legislation to address the safety and security of the global food supply, but it is certainly not alone. There's also the CBP, C-TPAT, FAST, AMR, OSC, SST, WCO, and other European Union and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation activities. |
National Defense
March 2009
Matthew Rusling |
After Six Years, Still No Tamper-Proof Shipping Containers After a six-year search for a tamper-proof shipping container, no product has been fielded and one major vendor has dropped out of the race, citing a lack of progress by the Department of Homeland Security. |
National Defense
November 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Former Customs and Border Protection Chief Slams Congress As deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection in the Bush administration, Jayson Ahern was the primary target of Congress' ire when it came to a mandate to screen 100 percent of all shipping containers bound for the United States for nuclear materials. |
Chemistry World
February 17, 2014
Emma Stoye |
'Smart boxes' for greener, cheaper shipping Steel shipping containers may one day be scrapped in favor of lightweight, tamper-proof alternatives made of composite materials with embedded sensors. |
BusinessWeek
June 10, 2010
Bhatia & Nightingale |
Why the Rising Cost of Shipping Matters The price charged by owners of container ships are up about 75 percent since December, a sign that global demand is climbing, but they're still a long way from their peak. |
CFO
June 16, 2003
Chuck Lenatti |
Grinding Away on ROI Recipes for IT success from three companies that go well beyond mere numbers-crunching |
National Defense
March 2009
Matthew Rusling |
Study Blasts Container Scanning Process A new study adds fuel to an ongoing dispute between Congress and the Department of Homeland Security. The issue: screening U.S.-bound shipping containers. |
National Defense
November 2009
Wright & Magnuson |
Government Ignores Cargo Scanning Law, Port Operator Says The Department of Homeland Security is ignoring a law that calls on it to monitor, by 2012, every container that enters a U.S. port, an executive at one of the world's leading port-operating companies charged. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000
Joe Harry |
Records Management System Recovers Big Dollars Since the passage of and amendments to the Local Government Records Act, school districts and local governments are beginning to find themselves with a multitude of resources to accomplish its mandates... |
