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Car transport drivers that were planning on traveling over the bridge (flyover ramp) from southbound I-83 (Baltimore-Harrisburg Expressway) to eastbound I-695 (Baltimore-Beltway) and Maryland Highway 139 (Charles Street) may want to rethink there route. At the present moment in time the Maryland State Highway Administration has bridge construction crews working on the bridge and traveling overRead More

Cost cutting seems to be the focus for new GM CFO Christopher Liddell, who will be coming over from Microsoft, where he was their CFO; the one bullet point on his resume seems to be overseeing a $3 billion cost-cutting plan there. He has an engineering background, which should serve him well, for he canRead More

Here’s some good news for car haulers; GM is going to be going around the clock at their Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas City, where they make the well-received Chevrolet Malibu and Buick Lacrosse. They are adding a permanent third shift, shortening the three shifts so that they have two hours of maintenance each day. SuchRead More

One of the downsides of producing goods in a developing country is that there often isn’t good infrastructure for getting goods to market; the low costs that a company gets from the inexpensive labor are often offset by added shipping costs. An example of this flows from this piece on Indian car maker Maruti Suzuki.Read More

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), a multi-modal transportation company, developed an advanced eco-friendly car carrier concept, Innovations in Sustainability backed by Historically proven, INtegrated technologies (ISHIN-I or ishin one). MOL has refined existing technologies to develop the new concept. And in fact, the Japanese word ISHIN means complete reform or revitalization. The carrier will use large-capacityRead More