Sustainability

An ongoing pricing surge remains intact for both truckload and intermodal activity, according to the most recent editions of the Truckload Linehaul Index and Intermodal Index from Cass Information Systems and Broughton Capital.

PMMI Foundation awards Future Leaders in Packaging Scholarship to Rochester Institute of Technology.

Companies are struggling to take efficient action across their supply chains, while facing increased demands from stakeholders.

Corrugated box can and should be thought of as one of the key technologies for e-commerce-era fulfillment.

Corrugated box can and should be thought of as one of the key technologies for e-commerce-era fulfillment.

Speakers of note include chair of IPANA (Industrial Packaging Alliance of North America), president of ISTA (International Safe Transit Association) and president and CEO of RPA (Reusable Packaging Association).

Sustainability is becoming a primary focus for supply chains across all industries.

The transportation industry is focused on competition from the likes of Uber Eats, DoorDash, Roadie and Zifty, but we should be paying close attention to what’s occurring in the electric vehicle sphere.

2017 U.S. carloads increased 2.9%, or 381,266 carloads, annually to 13,478,126, compared to 2016’s 13,096,860. Intermodal containers and trailers headed up 3.9%, or 521,121 units, annually to 14,011,834 for the highest annual tally ever recorded for the segment. Intermodal trucking rates

Subsidiary ORBIS helped environmental goals by investing in technologies to improve the environmental impact of its operations.

Class I railroad carrier CSX reported late yesterday that the company’s Chief Executive Officer and President E. Hunter Harrison is on medical leave, due to complications from a recent illness, and it added that COO James M. Foote has been named as acting CEO in the interim.

Nearly 1,300 readers voted in 13 categories for the best innovations in materials handling equipment.

The global branded apparel company, VF Corporation, embraces the complexity created by customer demand for unique styles as a competitive differentiator and focuses on talent management initiatives to leverage that complexity and manage risk in its supply chain.

While many packaging materials are not industrial compostable, this new, green packaging material washes down the drain. Sustainable packaging, Organic Packaging materials, Green Packaging