A vast step forward and accolades are deserved to many for pushing us along toward a thoughtful and comprehensive strategy for freight planning and investment. It's been a long time and somehow this has been very challenging. That said, let me underline that like most "freight" studies and strategies, it seems that there is still a wall between economic strategy, competitiveness assessing and freight planning.
An interesting read published in Electronics Purchasing Strategies about the status of reshoring investment from Asia. It's always interesting to hear the debates between the advocates and the pessimists - the truth is almost always somewhere in between. The article uses the backdrop of an AT Kearny report that speaks to tepid numbers, but the [...]
Will Waters writes in the current Lloyds Loading List that the Top 20 and top 100 agents outgrown by their SME rivals last year, with those outside the top 100 achieving average increases of 3.8%" according to WorldACD data. Sometimes data-watching is tedious and sometimes over time you glean important trends. With the overwhelming amounts of data that we all have access to today, it's difficult to sift through and distinguish between the meaningful and trivial.
Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects A few days ago, US Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx released a letter stating that DOT will publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity in the Federal Register requesting applications for the Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects (NSFHP). A fact sheet was also released noting $800 million [...]
We are pleased to announce that Per Kjellgren has joined GLDPartners as a Partner – Seaports/Terminals. Per Kjellgren will lead GLDPartners’ Seaports and Terminals Practice. He is a senior Transportation and Infrastructure Executive with over 30 years’ experience in leading and developing companies and organizations within the transportation, leasing and financial services sectors. Prior to joining GLDPartners [...]
From the January edition of Site Selection Magazine, some very interesting results are worth considering. The consultants that advise companies on location strategy consistently focus on taxes and incentives as the top factors for new project evaluation. On the other hand, executives from the companies considering new facility locations rank workforce, taxes and transportation infrastructure [...]
A new entity was announced this week in Anchorage Alaska, the new Alaska Aeronexus Alliance has been created to attract global investment at and around the Ted Stevens International Airport (ANC) in Anchorage. With ANC being the 5th busiest cargo airport in the world and supported by an unusual air cargo transfer flexibility, the thinking is that certain supply [...]
Amazon's entry as a logistics player will change things and the ramifications will be wide.
Though it's now 8 months old, I came across this article by Alan Tovey, Telegraph Industry Editor wrote a very good piece about the development of autonomous vehicle technology and the issues associated with adoption.
See the article that Jim Brogan and I wrote about the keys to leveraging economic development at and around airports.