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MARCH 29, 2007

NEW YORK -- West Virginia has a championship to help lessen the disappointment of missing the NCAA Tournament. Frank Young and the Mountaineers shot past Clemson to their first NIT title in 65 years. Young scored 24 points, including six 3-pointers, and De'Sean Butler added 20 points to help West Virginia beat Clemson 78-73 in the National Invitation Tournament final Thursday night.

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MARCH 27, 2007

Eric Joiner, who has created a great resource for the logistics world, Freight Dawg Blawg , has posted my article and also added some valuable comments as well. Listed below is his full post for your review. Thank you Eric for allowing me to join the rest of the Dawgs. Michael, having worked for a company that sold supply chain visibility tools (Celarix) and having implemented them (Tradebeams suite in another past life!).

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MARCH 26, 2007

The globalization of commerce has made it necessary for companies both large and small to have a world view – a big-picture, global perspective that helps them see the possibilities for their business in their entirety. It’s particularly essential for manufacturers whose markets demand that they source from overseas. A U.S. apparel company might source fabric from China, manufacture garments in Vietnam, send them to Italy for customer design work, then ship final product to a stateside warehouse

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MARCH 12, 2007

Amsterdam tries cargo trams A pilot scheme is underway to run cargo trams through Amsterdam, which could help reduce particle air pollution in the Dutch city by 15 percent. City Cargo Nederland is carrying out the trial, which runs March 7-31. The trams will use the existing tram system of the Municipal Transportation Co. (GVB), but is restricted to lines with sufficient free capacity to avoid conflicts with passenger trams.

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MARCH 9, 2007

100% inspection proposal pops up again in Senate Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J, is taking another bite at the apple with a new amendment designed to create a system for conducting image scans on all cargo containers at foreign ports to detect terrorist smuggling of mass destruction weapons. Last week the Senate voted down an amendment from Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., that would have required the Department of Homeland Security to deploy automated inspection systems and scan 100 percent of inboun

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MARCH 20, 2007

Trade between European countries is rapidly increasing, great demands are being made on Europe’s transport infrastructure. The implications and costs associated with expanding road and rail capacity are well understood by politicians and the general public alike. The only freight transport mode that has virtually unlimited potential for expansion, and which is considered environmentally friendly, is coastal shipping, hence the current EU focus on encouraging more cargo to move by water.

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MARCH 18, 2007

CREATE3S is a new research project funded by the European Commission. Bringing together some of the leading companies in short sea shipping and ship design, CREATE3S aims to develop a new generation of short sea vessels utilizing advanced design and manufacturing techniques, enabling Europe to strengthen its shipping and shipbuilding competitiveness.

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MARCH 31, 2007

This is an on-line article from Amy Roach Partridge, who is the assistant editor for InboundLogistics.com. She checked out the logistics blog community and critiqued her favorites. Say what you will about blogging -- that it democratizes information dissemination, or, adversely, that it is killing well-edited, fact-checked journalism -- logistics professionals have embraced it.

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MARCH 2, 2007

Senate drops 100-percent inspection proposal Twelve Democrats and Independent Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut joined Republicans to defeat a proposal that would have required all containers to be scanned before they were shipped to the United States from a foreign port. The Senate late Thursday voted 58-38 to table an amendment offered by Democrat Charles Schumer of New York requiring 100-percent scanning of all U.S.

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