China's Growing Logistics Industry

China's logistics industry is expected to grow 20% every year. This will put the industry at $162 billion U.S. dollars by 2010.

In 2006 alone China's logistics industry rose more than 12.1% over the previous year.

To date, more than 60 cities have initiated logistics development plans.

A little update from the chinadaily news.

Kitty Hawk Files Chapter 11

Kitty Hawk, Inc. and all of its subsidiaries announced yesterday that the "Company" filed voluntary petitions for re-organization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. The filing was made as an effort to address financial issues and potentially find a financial investor.

Kitty Hawk is an air cargo, air freight transportation company, that has been providing over 30 years of air cargo transportation throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Wal-Mart Reduces Carbon

Walmart has stated recently that it will decrease products on the shelves that are based around non-renewable energy. For example they will cut back on basic detergents, focusing more on high concentration soaps.
This is a great step towards saving money and taking care of mother nature by reducing warehousing needs, storage costs and shelving the products.

Freight Trail Derailed!!!

In Des Moines, Iowa on Wednesday the 26th, a 27 car freight train derailed. 16 of the cars had been overturned and were carrying soybean product. No one was reported injured according to the railroad spokesman.

The tracks around the area were also destroyed, making this stretch of track inoperable until repairs can be made.

Story reported in Forbes.

Volumes on the Rise

Freight traffic volumes have been on the rise at a rate of 2.2% since 96. This increase has created stand still traffic during peak travel and demand times.

The DOT just announced aid to at least 5 metro cities that will help begin the process of relieving congestion on roads due to freight transportation.

One such solution may involve moving delivery times to off-peak hours. This change could have many side effects. Shipments could miss cut off points, delivery receivers would have to have someone available for delivery and some businesses just can't afford to change times like the restaurant business.

Logistics services will have to take a good look at how all these changes will impact business.

Shipping Scam, hits the Pentagon Hard

It has been discovered recently that a pair of sisters / owners of C&D Distributors of Lexington, South Carolina had been scamming the Pentagon by sending small parts via high priority to U.S. Military bases in Iraq. The shipping on these .19 to 1.30 parts was coming out to sometimes over $500,000 dollars which was sent to C&D to cover the costs of shipping, when in reality the shipping was rarely over $100 dollars the report states.

What a loop hole in Pentagon's automated shipping where a couple of people can scam 20 million in funds, and what type of people would actually do this?

The two sisters have been caught and put behind bars, potentially serving the rest of time there.

This story was posted by www.bloomberg.com.

Port Jersey Makes top 100 list

Congratulations to Port Jersey Logistics of Monroe Township NJ for making InboundLogistics Top 100 Third Party Logistics companies of the year! Port Jersey has been rated up there with Bax Global, Ryder, CT Logistics and many other big named companies.

I am glad to see another very reputable company make the top 100 list this year. I wonder who will be next.

08 IWLA Convention

Don't miss the Annual IWLA Convention and Expo. Located in Palm Springs California, this trip will be well worth it!

The information is as follows:
-The convention is from March 9th to March 11th, 2008
-Over 400 members already going!
-New condensed version for more savings and better management!

For more information contact Scott Brewster at the IWLA.

Diesel Gas Prices

Reported on Monday Diesel fuels national price average dropped 5.1 cents to $2.846 a gallon. This was reported by the Energy Department.

The decline followed last weeks 1.3 cent increase and left truckings main fuel 21.8 cents below the same week last year.

The decrease was only the third drop in the past nine weeks according to DOE. DOE surveys about 340 filling stations nationally to compile average price data.

This news was recorded and posted by Transport Topics Logistics News

Logistics of Sourcing to China

Outsourcing is real and it's here to stay it seems. As you all know China's economy is growing leaps and bounds over previous years. One company has taken a different approach to the booming off shore industry growth. 889 Global Solutions creates relationships with manufacturers in China and uses those relationships to exploit cost savings to it's clientele. They handle many of the aspects involved in strategic sourcing to China, including the logistics of it all. They provide expertise in the areas of transportation management, materials handling, fulfillment and planning. For more information on China manufacturing processes visit their website.

Barrett Distribution expands to New York

For the first time, Barrett Distribution has expanded it's warehouse operations outside New England with the opening of their newest facility in Selkirk, NY just outside Albany. The 35 door, 350,000 sqaure foot warehouse sits adjacent to the CSX Selkirk railyard which is the main CSX hub in the Northeast. The newest operation is another sign of Barrett's dedication to providing superior Northeast warehousing services.

National Warehouse Marketing Coops

National logistics cooperative associations are a great way to increase your visibility online and by word of mouth. By teaming up with a organization who's sole job is to promote your warehouse and logistics operation, you benefit from another advocate working on your behalf. Often times vendors contact these organizations because of the one stop shopping to satisfy their needs throughout the country through various members. The American Chain of Warehouses, Inc. provides supply chain solutions for manufacturers and retailers with operations throughout the country from their membership base of 20 or more. So consider joining a cooperative logistics and warehouse marketing association to get your next lead.

Palisades Marketing Launches New Site

Palisades Marketing, a cooperation of third party logistics providers who offer warehousing, distribution and a multitude of fulfillment services, has launched their new website. The new website developed by ebasedEVOLUTION, reflects Palisades' commitment to their members in driving qualifies leads to them.

Food Logistics has Identified the 50 leading 3PL companies that service the food industry. Among them was named Murphy Warehouse Co., full service 3rd party logistics company serving more than 200 companies. From Minneapolis, services include: public warehousing; distribution; crossdocking; fulfillment; administrative as well as international logistics through our Midwest International Logistics Center.

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