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Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
The wave of big mergers and acquisitions that swept through the third-party logistics industry in 2015 may have crested, but another wave is expected to rise again in the near future. This is the view of some of the top financial and logistics executives who…
At this year’s Intermodal Expo BNSF Railway Executive Chairman Matt Rose compared intermodal transportation to a relay race that is dependent on each party to make the handoff from one leg to the next with maximum efficiency. Those handoffs each have their…
Colliers International says supply chain modernization and ecommerce continue to drive growth of big box warehousing, which is experiencing a record number of tenants. In its mid-year report, the global commercial real estate firm said only 157 of 1,908…
In what is the latest legal defeat for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regarding dreadlock hair styles, a federal appeals court upheld one employer’s ban on the hairstyle. An African-American applicant for a customer service position with the…
West Coast longshoremen and their employers have agreed to early contract talks which shippers hope can avert a future strike. About 100 delegates of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union recently voted to approve the plan for early talks with the…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a final rule for employers to submit pay reports with extremely detailed payroll information. The alleged reason for the change is to provide the commission with better data to use in framing policies…
The Department of Labor’s overtime rule scheduled to go into effect a month and a half from now is facing several legislative and legal challenges. On Dec. 1, the salary threshold for when overtime must be paid will increase to $913 per week, or $47,476…
The National Retail Federation expects retail sales in November and December, excluding autos, gas and restaurant sales, to increase a solid 3.6% to $655.8 billion. NRF notes that this would be higher than last year and significantly higher than the 10-year…
Recruiting and retaining truck drivers isn’t an impossible task – just make sure you do it the right way, a panel of industry professionals told attendees at the Intermodal Association of North America’s 2016 Intermodal Expo in Houston. The single biggest…
Richard Griffin, General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, opened a new front in the war against independent contractors by directing his regional directors to assert that contractor status is by its very existence an unfair labor practice. Last…
Total spending for Halloween this year is expected to reach $8.4 billion, an all-time high, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. U.S. consumers are expected to spend an average of $82.93, up…
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports should be at near-peak levels this month even as retailers work to cope with the Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker released by the National Retail…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
The wave of big mergers and acquisitions that swept through the third-party logistics industry in 2015 may have crested, but another wave is expected to rise again in the near future. This is the view of some of the top financial and logistics executives who…
At this year’s Intermodal Expo BNSF Railway Executive Chairman Matt Rose compared intermodal transportation to a relay race that is dependent on each party to make the handoff from one leg to the next with maximum efficiency. Those handoffs each have their…
Colliers International says supply chain modernization and ecommerce continue to drive growth of big box warehousing, which is experiencing a record number of tenants. In its mid-year report, the global commercial real estate firm said only 157 of 1,908…
In what is the latest legal defeat for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regarding dreadlock hair styles, a federal appeals court upheld one employer’s ban on the hairstyle. An African-American applicant for a customer service position with the…
West Coast longshoremen and their employers have agreed to early contract talks which shippers hope can avert a future strike. About 100 delegates of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union recently voted to approve the plan for early talks with the…
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a final rule for employers to submit pay reports with extremely detailed payroll information. The alleged reason for the change is to provide the commission with better data to use in framing policies…
The Department of Labor’s overtime rule scheduled to go into effect a month and a half from now is facing several legislative and legal challenges. On Dec. 1, the salary threshold for when overtime must be paid will increase to $913 per week, or $47,476…
The National Retail Federation expects retail sales in November and December, excluding autos, gas and restaurant sales, to increase a solid 3.6% to $655.8 billion. NRF notes that this would be higher than last year and significantly higher than the 10-year…
Recruiting and retaining truck drivers isn’t an impossible task – just make sure you do it the right way, a panel of industry professionals told attendees at the Intermodal Association of North America’s 2016 Intermodal Expo in Houston. The single biggest…
Richard Griffin, General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, opened a new front in the war against independent contractors by directing his regional directors to assert that contractor status is by its very existence an unfair labor practice. Last…
Total spending for Halloween this year is expected to reach $8.4 billion, an all-time high, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. U.S. consumers are expected to spend an average of $82.93, up…
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major retail container ports should be at near-peak levels this month even as retailers work to cope with the Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy, according to the monthly Global Port Tracker released by the National Retail…