Vitran Express Canada fined for fatal workplace accident
Vitran Express Canada — operating as National Fast Freight — will pay a $140,000 fine for a fatal workplace accident in which a worker was trapped between a reversing truck […]
All Nippon Airways big cargo loser in 2nd quarter
Cargo revenue at All Nippon Airways was significantly worse than its peer group during the calendar second quarter, with the Japanese combination carrier on Friday reporting a 60% decline in sales for goods transport on its passenger and dedicated cargo jets. International Airlines Group (IAG), the parent company of British Airways and four other carriers,…
Proper ramp choices will earn a passing grade
Portable cargo loading ramps might look alike, and even feature similar structures and materials, but there are differences in the details – all of which play a role in purchasing […]
Yellow elephant in the room for Saia’s Q2 earnings call
Two executives from LTL carrier Saia somehow found a way to spend 60 minutes on a quarterly conference call with analysts talking about how the likely demise of Yellow Corp. is going to affect their business without actually mentioning Yellow by name. CEO Fritz Holgren and CFO Douglas Col used terms like “the situation” and…
How barcoding changed vehicle shipping in 1992
Every week, FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago. This article comes from the August 1992 issue of American Shipper and explains how longshoremen first worked with barcodes while shipping Chrysler vehicles, making the process “nearly mistake-proof.” Barcode technology…