Canadian competitiveness continues to fall against G7 benchmark

Canadian industry continues to face increasing global competition and, while our ranking compared to G7 countries has improved, our Excellence Gap has increased significantly since before 9-11, according to Canadian…

Con-Way carriers win prestigious ‘LTL Carrier Of The Year’ Award

For the second consecutive year, Frito-Lay North America has awarded all four of the Con-Way Transportation Services, Inc. (Con-Way) regional less-than-truckload (LTL) freight carriers their “LTL Carrier of the Year”…

CTA gives transportation vision a failing grade

Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) chief executive officer, David Bradley, says the federal transportation vision released this week does little to enhance road transportation. Federal Transport Minister, David Collenette released the…

Auto-ID technology could help packaged goods, retail and freight transportation industries save billions: study

New technology that tags and tracks inventory and equipment could save the packaged goods, retail and freight transportation industries billions of dollars each year, according to a study just released…

*** SPECIAL *** HR STRATEGIES : Bridging the workplace generation gap: A six-step guide

Margaret Wall of Integrated Learning Solutions suggests the following six tips for bridging the Generation Gap in the workplace, an issue that is of particular importance when hiring IT professionals.

Matrics announces world’s smallest UHF RFID chip

Matrics, a provider of UHF Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) smart label technology, is laying claim to designing the world’s smallest UHF RFID Integrated Circuit (IC), which will be embedded in…

E. Hunter Harrison to succeed Tellier as President and CEO of CN

Canadian National’s board of directors has appointed E. Hunter Harrison as CN’s new president and chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1, 2003. Harrison replaces Paul M. Tellier at the…

Transport Innovation and Cost Savings Conference set for September 24th

The Sixteenth Annual Educational Conference on Transport Innovation and Cost-Savings is set for Tuesday September 24th. The event, designed to update shippers on logistics and supply chain issues, is being…

Transportation needs a plan to attract best and brightest: Collenette

The lack of transportation chairs at Canadian universities should be a concern for the industry, Transport Minister David Collenette told members of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in…

DHL awarded for ‘global competitive fitness’

DHL Worldwide Express says it has been awarded for the fifth and consecutive year, the ranking of ‘Above World Class’ in the latest INSEAD report that measured the competitive fitness…