AhoyCargo Trade and Transport News

Cheetah Software Helps Carriers Improve Customer Service with Web-Based Customer Tracking Add-On

trade@ahoycargo.com (The Prime Mover) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:12:53 +0000

Cheetah Software Systems, Inc. has announced the Customer Visibility System, a new addition to the Cheetah solution that offers a powerful competitive advantage to delivery and LTL carriers.

Westlake Village, CA - Cheetah Software Systems, Inc. has announced the Customer Visibility System, a new addition to the Cheetah solution that offers a powerful competitive advantage to delivery and LTL carriers. Today's carriers must provide accurate, relevant, real-time order status information to their customers that can be quickly and easily accessed. Cheetah Customer Visibility provides this information by integrating seamlessly in the Cheetah Freight and Cheetah Delivery solutions, giving end-customers the ability to easily and immediately determine order status, driver location, ETAs, and more.

EPRINC Study Shows Large Job Losses and Refinery Closings from Cap and Trade Legislation

trade@ahoycargo.com (The Prime Mover) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:06:04 +0000

Washington, DC - The study shows that as the U.S. enters a period of low growth in gasoline consumption, the combination of new global refining centers and the rising costs imposed by the legislation will distort the competitive position of domestic refiners and could idle and bring permanent closure to as much as 8 million barrels per day (mb/d) of the nation’s 17.5 mb/d of domestic refining capacity. Direct and indirect job losses could rise to 400,000 across the 2015-2030 forecast period.

Sunoco Logistics Selects Syntex IMPACT ERM As Its EHS Management Platform

trade@ahoycargo.com (The Prime Mover) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:44:40 +0000

HOUSTON,TX - Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P., an industry leader among pipeline and terminal providers, has selected the Syntex IMPACT ERM(R) Suite as its company-wide QHSE management solution. Syntex Management Systems, Inc., the world's leading provider of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), will implement its highly configurable and robust IMPACT ERM(R) Suite software solution, providing Sunoco Logistics with a single platform for incident tracking, action item management and trends analysis to identify proactive QHSE performance improvements.

ILS Launches New Web Based Inventory, Procurement and Sales Management Solutions

trade@ahoycargo.com (The Prime Mover) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:15:53 +0000

MEMPHIS, Tenn.- Inventory Locator Service,® LLC (ILS), the most active business-to-business e-marketplace for the aviation, defense and marine industries, is pleased to announce the release of a new suite of Supply Chain Management solutions: ILS Procurement Management, ILS Inventory Management, and ILS Sales Management. Leveraging state of the art technology, ILS is able to offer this suite of services at a low cost of entry, allowing customers to scale the solution to fit their business size and needs and pay on a fixed-cost subscription basis. An additional offering, ILS MRO Management is currently in development.

World Trade Center Miami Bucking Trend with Record Participation and Sales for Three Trade Shows: 12th Americas Food & Beverage Show, 10th Air Cargo Americas and 4th SeaCargo Americas

trade@ahoycargo.com (The Prime Mover) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:31:32 +0000

MIAMI, - Charlotte Gallogly, president of the World Trade Center Miami, is reporting record sales for three signature World Trade Center Miami events scheduled for early November (http://www.worldtrade.org) in Miami: the 12th Americas Food & Beverage Show, 10th Air Cargo Americas and 4th SeaCargo Americas. The three international events, targeting food and beverage executives and aviation and maritime CEOs and regulators, are designed to promote and facilitate multi-lateral trade, with a focus on the Americas.

Pilot Freight Services Ranked #1 Freight Forwarder in Quest for Quality Awards

trade@ahoycargo.com (The Prime Mover) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:10:56 +0000

LIMA, Pa.- Pilot Freight Services, a worldwide provider of transportation and logistics services, announced that the company has been ranked number one overall in the Freight Forwarder category of the 2009 Quest for Quality™ Awards from Logistics Management, the distinguished magazine for supply chain professionals. The awards recognize overall service excellence in freight forwarding reader-based ratings in five areas: on-time performance, value, information technology, customer service, and equipment and operations.

Partner Resources: 2009 SmartWay Excellence Award Winners

trade@ahoycargo.com (The Prime Mover) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:49:54 +0000

On October 6, 2009, SmartWay Transport announced 37 winners of the 2009 SmartWay Excellence Awards at the American Trucking Associations Management Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. These awards recognize freight industry leaders that have made significant contributions to protecting the environment through their participation in the Partnership.

Truck Carriers

Truck Carriers Bison Transport Inc.
C.R. England, Inc.
Celadon Trucking Services Inc.
Challenger Motor Freight Inc.
Covenant Transport, Inc.
Gordon Trucking Inc.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.
Knight Transportation, Inc.

Ryder Executives to Address Morgan Keegan Industrial Conference

trade@ahoycargo.com (The Prime Mover) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:18:51 +0000

MIAMI, FL - Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Greg Swienton and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert Sanchez will present a Company update at the Morgan Keegan Industrial Conference.

Who:    Ryder System, Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Greg Swienton and Executive
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert Sanchez

What:   Morgan Keegan Industrial Conference

Where:   Chicago, Ill.

When:   Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009

Time:   8:35 a.m. Central Time

Webcast:   To access the live webcast, visit http://investors.ryder.com.

TransCore Hosts 'Brokers as Bankers' Webinar September 23

trade@ahoycargo.com (The Prime Mover) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:06:13 +0000

PORTLAND, Ore.- On September 23rd at 3 p.m. EDT, TransCore hosts “Brokers as Bankers,” a webinar focusing on critical cash flow issues facing brokers and 3PLs in a sluggish economy. Shippers are lengthening their payment schedules as carriers struggle with depressed rates and fluctuating fuel surcharges. Consequently, brokers and 3PLs find themselves extended on both sides of the logistics equation.

“Brokers as Bankers” features a presentation by Winston Aston, CEO of TransCredit, a recognized expert on credit and payment issues in the transportation industry. Aston has spent the last 23 years as CEO of TransCredit reporting on transportation industry credit. Previously, he operated a trucking company with an in-house brokerage for 14 years.

“The best brokers are playing the role of bankers, as they are forced to pick up the days between shipper remittance and carrier payment,” Aston explained. “Even when the shipper pays late, these brokers still meet their commitments to pay carriers within 30 days.”

Aston’s remarks will be followed by an online question-and-answer session as well as a panel discussion with John Miller, vice president, Hybrid Transit Systems; Greg Roush, president of Smart Lines; and Steve Blair, general manager for TransCore’s Broker Transportation Management Systems.

Federal Transit Administration Reaches Major Recovery Act Milestone, Awards $6.7 Billion To Nearly 600 Transit Providers Across the U.S.

trade@ahoycargo.com (The Prime Mover) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:15:24 +0000

Washington D.C. - U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that the Federal Transit Administration last week achieved a crucial milestone: it beat the September 1st deadline to provide all states and local communities 50 percent of their Recovery Act transit formula dollars.

In fact, FTA provided nearly 90 percent of its $7.5 billion transit stimulus money to states and local communities. FTA is managing an additional $900 million in discretionary funds for New Starts projects, the Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction and Tribal Transit programs and oversight for a total of $8.4 billion.

“This money will not only create jobs, it will also allow people to get to and from those jobs safely, reliably, and comfortably,” LaHood said. “As we put America back to work, we will also be creating a cleaner environment and reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil.”

Since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) into law on Feb. 17, grants totaling more than $6.7 billion have been made available for transit improvements throughout the country. The majority of these grants will be used to purchase new vehicles, increase safety and security initiatives and construct, rehabilitate, and maintain the various transit systems.