Word: freighting
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...ARRESTED. KIM JONG HON, 43, South Korean businessman; following the seizure of freight containers holding 13 highly radioactive devices; on Sakhalin Island, Russia. Kim, president of South Korea's All Nations Co., was detained by Russian police for allegedly attempting to import undeclared items. The devices, according to Russian authorities, contained uranium 238, a metal used in the process of armor plating and the production of ammunition, although some experts say it could possibly be used to make dirty bombs. South Korean officials say the devices were to be used at a construction site...
...taking on smaller, European-based logistics firms like Exel and TNT but also fending off competitive pressure from Belgium-based DHL, which is making an aggressive push into the U.S. Over the past few years, UPS has spent more than $1 billion acquiring 25 companies (from a bank to freight forwarders) to become a logistics jack-of-all-trades. Just last month the company agreed to buy Menlo Worldwide Forwarding, which boasts more than $1 billion in annual revenue. "This is a big deal," says transportation analyst Brian Clancy of MergeGlobal. "It makes them a freight-forwarding powerhouse...
...forced to watch obese people struggle to lose as much weight as possible, or midgets marry normal sized people. While this can be entertaining when taken in small doses, the current state of television leaves me feeling like I’ve gotten aboard a sadistic freight train, bound for—eventually—live gladiatorial fights to the death (which would actually be really cool...
...from Orlando, Fla., to Los Angeles, has yet to arrive on time this year, rolling in as much as 40 hours late. Amtrak had to fly one near mutinous trainload of passengers to their destination when the Limited fell behind, leaving customers and Amtrak fuming. "There are other freight tracks we operate over that are busy," says Amtrak spokesman Mark Magliari, "but none...
...Civil War with a handful of tracklayers, helped open up the frontier West and has since grown into a $12 billion-a-year colossus with 48,000 employees and 33,000 miles of track crisscrossing 23 Western states. Today UP handles some 30% of the nation's rail freight traffic. But during the past year, the legendary railroad has been groaning under the weight of embarrassing logistical breakdowns...