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...“If you look at the defence side of the business, only about 10 per cent of those businesses . . . are on long-term agreements,” he said, due to government contracting rules....
...The Biden administration has been pushing rail freight companies, trucking groups and ports to increase their own capacity to meet rising demand....
...Americans have become more anxious in the past month about contracting Covid, according to a Monmouth University poll released on Monday....
...It has also leapt ahead of contractors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, whose joint venture, United Launch Alliance, had carried the flag for US space launch — though using Russian engines....
...a more traditional trucking firm; airport services group Macquarie Infrastructure; and air freight and logistics company Forward Air Corp....
...Wyoming mine employment has been contracting. His administration last month introduced rules to help the industry by allowing coal-fired power plants to run more frequently....
...(FT) Shooting spree across West Texas kills 7 The 36-year-old man who terrorised the West Texas towns of Odessa and Midland with an assault-style rifle was fired from his trucking job a few hours before...
...The Forbes piece featured a business called Palisade Compliance, which describes its business as: Oracle licensing, contracting, compliance, cloud, and cost reduction advisory services ......
...AutoTech said investors in the fund include industry stalwarts such as Borg Warner, the car components manufacturer, as well as car dealership groups, trucking groups and car repair companies....
...Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp poured $580m into MySpace in 2005; then AOL spent $850m for Bebo three years later....
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE Known unknowns in the Scottish referendum polls: The spread between the yes and the no campaign is contracting....
...In recent years, as revolutions have churned in nearby countries, aerospace giants including United Technologies Corp and Bombardier have invested in new factories in Morocco....
...“I think it demonstrates how fortunate the United States is to have a first-class, very flexible rail system,” he says....
...Economic statistics do not fully justify this optimism: this week, Asia’s two largest economies disappointed, with activity in China contracting and Japan growing below expectations....
...According to Tom Barry, a researcher at the Center for International Policy, demand for drones is being pushed by a mixture of “border hawks, immigration hardliners and congressional voices for the military contracting...
...Trucking groups’ year-end results all painted a similarly gloomy picture of demand in December....
...John Kemp of Reuters’ recently listed all the ways that advantage could break down: Converting up to economy-level, if all the proposed new manufacturing plants in the United States are built, all the LNG...
...According to industry legend, the heavy regulation of the trucking sector meant the trip cost the same as driving a single truck to Houston....
...Izzy’s post takes you through the debate, and concludes that corporate profits, if achievable, are thus now dependent on contracting capacity and cutting costs....
...The decline was worse than expected and, in dropping below the index’s midpoint of 50, it signalled that China’s industrial activity had started contracting....
...form over substance, says Argentina: “That the Amended Injunctions do not literally attach or execute on Republic property… does not change the fact that they require a turnover of property not in the United...
...COS is the fourth-largest drilling contractor, the largest oilfield trucking company and one of the largest oilfield tool rental businesses in the US, according to Chesapeake....
...Despite having a market capitalisation of about $74bn and buying about 30 companies since 1999, the largest deal it has struck was for Overnite, a trucking company, for about $1.3bn in 2005....
...inspector-general is a plan to use costly diesel generators to provide electricity to residents of Kandahar, the country’s second largest city, until the US Agency for International Development and the US Army Corps...
...When United Parcel Service, the logistics company, went public in 1999, top executives gave one overarching rationale for the wrenching change to its conservative, operations-focused corporate culture –...
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