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Newton: What about the Port of Los Angeles?
It's fun for mayoral candidates to imagine eliminating potholes or building new trains to link the Valley to the Westside. It's not hard to support a spiffed-up LAX (really, what's hard to believe is that it's taken this long) or legions of new police...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Air Pollution, Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles International Airport, Political Candidates
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Problem Solver: Broken china shatters shipping experience
It was during a visit to his mother's home in New Mexico last summer that Timothy Reddinger found his grandmother's set of fine china. His mother was downsizing and offered to give him the extravagant dinnerware. Reddinger was thrilled. The century-...
Tags: China, Jon Yates
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Port strike numbers are out to sea
Big, round numbers always get people's attention. Numbers such as $1 billion, which has been bandied about as the economic loss per day nationally from the eight-day strike that shut down most of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. That figure...
Tags: Lobbying, Career and Workplace, Healthcare Contract Issues, Economic Indicator, Media Industry
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Commercial Driver Logistics announces plans to expand company
Commercial Driver Logistics will relocate and add 43 new full-time jobs over the next two years. CD Logistics is a freight-broker business, which matches shippers and/or brokers to available loads. Currently, CD Logistics has seven full-time...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance
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Firms round up; we pay the price
CONSUMER CONFIDENTIALWe live in an age of supercomputer-driven, lightning-fast digital technology that can determine the time of day down to the nanosecond. So why do shipping companies routinely round up package weights to the nearest pound? How come cellphone companies...Tags: Science and Technology, FedEx Corporation, Consumers, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Transportation
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The U.S.-flag ship business takes baby steps in Hawaii
Special to The TimesIn an ideal cruising destination such as Hawaii, why is only one large cruise ship sailing inter-island itineraries? The answer is rooted in centuries-old maritime laws. The Jones Act is commonly cited as the source of the cabotage regulations...Tags: Shipbuilding, Sailing, Europe Sailing, Employees, Career and Workplace
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A truly moving story
Consumer File - Orlando SentinelEarlier this week in my column about a moving company, I said I had never heard any HAPPY moving stories. Here is one from reader Robert Kemp: Upon retiring in 1988, decided to move to Northern Ireland. from where I met my wife in 1943... -
Exports brighten trade figures at L.A. seaport
Money & CompanyThe Port of Los Angeles had its biggest month ever for exports in November and the total was also high enough to drive the nation's busiest cargo container port past its record for goods shipped overseas in a year.... -
A&E rolls out another entertaining reality series with “Shipping Wars”
Channel Guide MagazineBy Stacey Harrison When I reach Roy Garber over the phone for our interview, he's on the road. But then where else would he be? If you watch Shipping Wars — A&E's new reality series premiering tonight at 9 — you'll quickly learn that Garber... -
Toy firm owners get 3 years in money laundering case
L.A. NOWThe owners of a Los Angeles toy company that made teddy bears were sentenced to federal prison terms Tuesday for their roles in helping launder drug money for Colombian and Mexican traffickers.... -
Eco-friendly packaging influences shopping decisions, study says
L.A. at HomeMore U.S. shoppers are interested in choosing eco-friendly packaging, but they're confused about which types are best for the environment, according to a study on packaging and the environment released Monday. The study from the New Jersey marketing... -
Samsung reportedly passes Apple in smartphone shipments
TechnologySamsung has passed Apple as the world's top shipper of smartphones in the third quarter of the year, according to a report from the research firm Strategy Analytics. But while Samsung sent more smartphones to retailer warehouses than Apple did during...
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