Transport Canada (TC) has conveniently collected six studies and assessments of the use of speed limiters for transport trucks. The studies were commissioned in 2007 as part of TC’s consideration of the implications of a national heavy truck speed limiter requirement from a safety, environmental, economic and operational perspective.
Quebec legislation requiring activation of truck speed […]
After a promising start the current round of WTO (World Trade Organization) negotiations collapsed on Day 9 when India rejected U.S. proposals for tariff limits on agricultural goods. India, like most Third World countries, feels disadvantaged against the most developed economies and claimed that it was acting on behalf of subsistence farmers across the world […]
XTL Transport Inc. has won the 2008 SCL Green Supply Chain Award. The award, which is issued by Supply Chain and Logistics Association Canada (SCL), is sponsored by Transport Canada and was presented in May 2008.
The annual award recognizes strong environmental leadership and a commitment to promoting green transportation standards. A high percentage of […]
Statistics Canada has released Port activity January to June 2006, covering the country’s largest seaports by tonnage. Full-year stats for 2006 will be published “soon” in Shipping in Canada (54-205-XWE; free).
Note that these comparative statistics, although two years old, are the latest available. More recent records are generally available from individual ports; for example, the […]
This Week in Petroleum (TWIP), published by the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA), features a brief analysis of soaring jet fuel prices and associated announcements of capacity cutbacks by airlines in the USA, “Jet Fuel Markets are Losing Altitude.”
TWIP publishes the charts and indices for oil prices and distillates that form the basis for many […]
MOU Scheduled To Take Effect Late-2009
Southwest Airlines, despite its exponential growth since its founding in 1971, is still solely a domestic carrier. In 2007 it was the largest — by passengers carried — in the USA.
Southwest’s only previous codeshare agreement collapsed with the bankruptcy of low-cost-carrier (LCC) ATA Airlines in April 2008.
WestJet, founded in […]
Air Canada (AC) is among a group of 25 airlines caught up in a price-fixing scandal that stems from an EU (European Union) 2006 probe of air cargo. That probe found airlines conspired to overcharge customers on fuel surcharges dating back to 2000.
AC took a $125 million charge on its latest balance sheet (May 2008) […]
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