This Week: Lights Out at GE; Import Container Volumes Drop At US Ports; Tightening up the Corn Belt; Where Did the Cargo Go?

This Week: A Picture is Worth Thousands; Procter and Gambles Sales through Wal-Mart Decline; Packaged Software Ties Up IT Budgets; UPS Retains Lions Share of Express Shipment Market

Everyone knows the story, but sometimes a picture says it all; Manitowoc cranes have a global lineage

Additional System Checks now in Place; Waiting for RFID

Four-Week Cycle Starts with Data Collection, ends with Executive Review

With Inventory Buffers Gone, Production Can Shut Down Almost Immediately, Even with Management or Temporary Labor

This Week: Just Say Overcharge It; Only a Kittens Share of Global Imports Go to the US; Wages of Sin?; Ore Producers Strike Steel Industry While the Iron is Hot

Report Could Bolster Potential for Class Action Status for Shippers in Lawsuit; Report Says Surcharges were Profit Centers, While Carriers Say "No Way"

This Week: Biggest Continent is Big On RFID; Army Stronger with RFID; FASTener Shortage Slows Down Boeing; Multi-Stops Save Shippers Multi-Money

Recent Price Run-Up Has Almost Identical Pattern to 1973-1982, after which Prices Dropped Like a Rock