Traffic World articles from September 2005

Traffic World archives from September 2005

Disasters.(aftermath of hurricane Katrina)
September 5, 2005... While the grim and weary survivors of the worst hurricane to hit the United States in two generations were facing an epic disaster in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the transportation and shipping industry was beginning its own kind of...

From its first devastating landfall.(hurricane Katrina)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... From its first devastating landfall to the disastrous aftermath, Hurricane Katrina sent a bitter shock wave through transportation infrastructure across the Gulf region. While steamship lines were diverting cargoes to Houston, Miami and...

While the Gulf region.(impact of Hurricane Katrina, 2005 on transport operators)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... While the Gulf region was coped after Katrina, transport operators were feeling the storm's impact at the pumps. Diesel and gasoline prices spiked as much as 30 cents overnight in some areas as the prospects for a months-long impact on oil...

Storm's economic wake.(This Week)
September 5, 2005... Experts are warning that the economic devastation from Hurricane Katrina could remain long after the Gulf region rebuilds. Oil prices hit new records, topping $70 a barrel in New York as the storm made landfall and were surging still higher...

Retailers and home improvement centers could see sales boost as storm-ravaged areas rebuild.
September 5, 2005... No one would use the word "benefit," but Hurricane Katrina, already touted as one of the costliest and devastating storms in U.S. history, could have a silver lining for some. Construction companies, home builders, retailers and some...

A contract for one: plan to create a single, mammoth military shipping contract has many in a skeptical private industry lined up in opposition.(Department of Defense)
September 5, 2005... The largest domestic military logistics contract in history is at stake and a lone transportation provider stands to win the entire package as part of an unprecedented move to remake U.S. defense shipping through private transport strategies....

Katrina devastates U.S. Gulf: transport operators take direct hit from Katrina, but the nation's economy may suffer longer lasting impact.(hurricane Katrina)
September 5, 2005... The shipping containers stacked at the Mobile, Ala., port weren't much of a barrier when Hurricane Katrina's 140-mile-per-hour winds hit land last week. "They got blown over like spaghetti" port director Jimmy Lyons told reporters as he...

'Just not that congested': waterways traffic worth the wait, says report, suggesting locks and dams funds misguided.(Government & Regulation)
September 5, 2005... A new university research report is throwing cold water on calls in the barge industry for new investment in the country's inland waterways. The report from the University of Missouri-St. Louis Center for Transportation Studies says there...

Lightening Ontario.(Government & Regulation)(trucking weight and dimension regulations )(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The third phase of Ontario's new trucking weight and dimension regulations is in effect. Trucks that do not meet the new standards will face penalties. The changes tightening up the province's regulations affecting new semi-trailers began...

Seeking private options: FHWA pushes public-private partnerships to give a boost to transport infrastructure plans.(Federal Highway Administration)
September 5, 2005... A month ago the transportation industry was happy just to get a highway bill done. Now, they're doing the math and being reminded why many parties originally asked for nearly $100 billion more than the new highway bill will spend. The...

TSA misses air cargo deadline.(Government & Regulation)(Transportation Security Administration)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Did the Transportation Security Administration's air cargo security plan get caught in a screening line? The TSA missed a congressionally imposed Aug. 15 deadline for releasing a comprehensive air cargo security rule that has been in the...

Does security place second? Technology vendors put more emphasis on security, but productivity, efficiency still foremost for shippers.(Logistics & Technology)
September 5, 2005... Companies promising technology that will help shippers make supply chains more secure are becoming as common as used car salesmen, and in many cases, about as popular. Shippers still want to kick the tires before purchasing logistics...

Surviving the peak: close attention to carrier relations, drivers can help smooth shippers' peak season.(Logistics & Technology)
September 5, 2005... Last year's peak shipping season was the toughest Tom Sanderson had seen in a long time. This season looks little better, said the president and COO of 3PL Transplace, but shippers will find little tolerance for last-moment loads and special...

Provia's new tool.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Provia Software released a free downloadable Microsoft Excel-compatible template to help third-party logistics providers select the best order management/warehouse management system for their needs. The spreadsheet template allows 3PLs to...

ATC Logistics expands auto terminal.(Logistics & Technology)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... ATC Logistics of Maryland expanded its automobile terminal at the Port of Baltimore by 35 percent, its first expansion since opening in 2000. "We have invested in the terminal here at the Port of Baltimore because we continue to attract...

Patrick resists Toll's takeover bid.(Toll Holdings Ltd.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Even if Toll Holdings $3.45 billion hostile takeover bid for Patrick Group is approved by investors and Australian regulators--a big "if" right now--don't expect to see the transporter elbowing its way into U.S. ports or trundling down American...

Distribution in site: choosing distribution sites used to be all about costs, but for many shippers, the stakes are increasingly about strategy.
September 5, 2005... When Knoll Furniture began to get complaints from customers about unconsolidated shipments on single orders, the top-of-the-line office furniture maker decided it needed a distribution network as carefully designed as its desks, chairs, tables,...

Trucking's sticker shock: rising costs threaten trucking companies stuck on productivity 'plateau', warns Schneider's Lofgren.(Schneider National, Chris Lofgren)(Freight Transportation Productivity Summit )
September 5, 2005... The head of one of the nation's largest truckload carriers fears the industry is facing difficult new challenges just as it has seen its productivity plateau. The result, said Schneider National President and CEO Chris Lofgren, is that a...

Con-Way expands NOW.(Transportation: Trucking)(Con-Way Transportation Services Inc., Con-Way NOW Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Pleased with the prospects for its new "final mile" store delivery service, Con-Way Transportation Services plans to take the footprint of the retail business of its ground expedited unit Con-Way NOW nationwide by next year. The Con-Way...

Trucking's new tracking: carriers buy, debut new technologies, services as expanding economy fuels shipper demand.
September 5, 2005... Intense competition and a growing economy are triggering new technology spending and services as truckers rush to implement vehicle-tracking, freight-tracking and other Web-based technologies demanded by shippers. In recent few weeks, LTL...

Schneider buys American Port Services.(Transportation: Trucking)(Schneider Logistics Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Schneider Logistics last week completed its purchase of American Port Services, a provider of port transloading, deconsolidation, warehousing and distribution services based in Savannah, Ga. Terms of the sale, announced in June, were not...

ATA's truck tonnage index slips again.(American Trucking Associations)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The American Trucking Associations' Truck Tonnage index fell 0.6 percentage points in July, the second straight monthly decline. The report is a new indication that the new signs of weakness in the U.S. economy are slowing down the...

Less 'wiggle room'.(Freight Transportation )(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The revised hours of service rules could lead to higher detention charges and time-based pricing, the head of a major truckload carrier warns shippers. Under the final HOS rules released last month, long-haul team drivers have less "wiggle...

Desperate deadline for DM&E: Railroad's president says further delay at STB could kill 8-year-old plan to extend coal line.(Transportation: Rail & Intermodal)
September 5, 2005... The Dakota Minnesota & Eastern Railroad coal line extension project could be scrapped if the Surface Transportation Board's environmental review isn't expedited and completed before its current deadline. In an Aug. 24 letter to the STB,...

Railroad pricing game: survey indicates rail service must stay consistent if railroads expect to maintain, increase rates.
September 5, 2005... Shippers with the ability to shift freight between modes will pay higher rates for rail transportation--as long as the railroads can improve service levels that tend to vary widely from carrier to carrier. And although shippers believe a...

BNSF, UP shift blame.(Transportation: Rail & Intermodal)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad are shifting some of the responsibility for transportation delays out of Wyoming's Powder River Basin coalfields to the mines. Both railroads have been hung up by service problems since May when two...

CSX looking for traction: faster trains and new operating mindset keys to service improvements for railroad.
September 5, 2005... Shippers say they aren't seeing the operational improvements promised by CSX's "One Plan," at least so far, according to a new survey. Forty-one percent of respondents to Citigroup's latest quarterly shipper survey said service levels...

Money for intermodal.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The $286.4 billion highway bill signed by President Bush included $2.4 million over the next four years for research to promote and advance emerging technologies in the field of intermodal transportation. The grant was administered by the...

Taking pressure off peak.(Traffic congestion)
September 5, 2005... Freight diversions and the new off-peak container shipping program have helped keep southern California free of congestion as the intermodal gears up for the fall peak shipping season. "There have been no delays for vessels arriving and...

ABX consolidates growth: airline looks to strengthen ties to DHL as it searches for business beyond its base.
September 5, 2005... ABX Air is steering clear of the air cargo industry's economic turbulence as it quietly builds up its business base. In the two years since it became an independent, publicly owned company, ABX has steadily increased its revenue and profit,...

Air France, KLM add China freighters.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Air France and KLM are upping their freight service between Europe and China. Air France Cargo initiated twice weekly direct 747-400 extended-range freighter flights between Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and the Guangzhou-Bayun airport...

EGL expands East.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... After paring back its U.S. and Western European operations, EGL Eagle Global Logistics expanded its presence in Eastern Europe by opening a facility in Warsaw, Poland. Along with this new facility, which opened last week, the forwarder...

BAX launches economy service.(BAX Global Inc. launches ground delivery service)
September 5, 2005... BAX Global, facing growing competition from expedited truck services, launched a ground delivery service targeting the growing volume of deferred freight. The economy service, which offers delivery in the United States within five days but...

DHL Air's early arrival.(DHL Airways Inc. to launch its new American air hub)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... DHL is on track for a September launch of its new U.S. air hub, but it still must improve its ground operations, according to the company's parent company Deutsche Post. DHL's Wilmington, Ohio, air hub is under budget and on schedule to...

Hapag-Lloyd's big bid: offer for CP Ships would produce fifth-largest container carrier, largest trans-Atlantic shipping line.
September 5, 2005... If Hapag-Lloyd's parent company completes its acquisition of CP Ships, the German carrier will become the world's fifth-largest container line, the largest on the trans-Atlantic, and a dominant carrier on several north-south routes between...

No NOL deal.(Neptune Orient Lines )(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Neptune Orient Lines is the odd carrier out in the Hapag-Lloyd purchase of CP Ships. Maritime industry observers saw Singapore-based NOL as another potential buyer for CP Ships because its regional and trans-Atlantic network would add to...

Fueling port truckers: shipping lines, importers nervous about capacity ensure surcharges are passed down to truckers.
September 5, 2005... Despite soaring fuel prices, United States harbor truckers have been remarkably quiet about the rising cost of diesel. That's because most ocean carriers are paying fuel surcharges to harbor trucking companies, and those companies are passing...

Jacksonville signs pact with MOL.(Port of Jacksonville)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Florida's Port of Jacksonville will get its first Asian service when the construction of a new terminal to be used by MOL is completed in late 2007. The Japanese ocean carrier signed a 30-year lease with port officials last month. Under...

SF gets bridge funds.(Port of San Francisco)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The Port of San Francisco says money in the federal highway bill will provide the last funding needed to complete a major multimodal bridge project aimed at relieving mad congestion and opening the part to now business. Port officials say...

Grand Alliance increases capacity.(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Shipping lines in the Grand Alliance plan to add almost 100,000 TEUs in capacity as now vessels enter service in 2006. The group said now vessels ordered by Hapag-Lloyd, Malaysia International Shipping Corp., NYK and Orient Overseas Container...

National & regional averages: August 29, 2005.(DOE Diesel Price Index)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
September 5, 2005... [GRAPHIC OMITTED] National & Regional Averages: August 29, 2005 United States $2.590 East Coast $2.564 Midwest $2.532 Gulf Coast $2.508 Rocky Mountain $2.726 West Coast ...

The Port of Brownsville.(Bernard J. List appointed)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The Port of Brownsville, Texas, hired Bernard J. List as port director, succeeding the late Raul Besteiro. List is a former assistant port director in Miami and former trade development manager for the Tampa Port Authority. He was most recently...

Lufthansa Cargo.(Joy Banerjee appointed)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Lufthansa Cargo said Joy Banerjee, who had been manager-sales steering for the USA West and South, Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean, assumed new responsibilities as district sales manager for the U.S. West Coast. Banerjee started at...

NYK Group Americas.(Brett Kats appointed)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... NYK Group Americas named Brett Kats manager of quality and environmental affairs. Kats started at NYK in 1988 and has held management positions in documentation, customer service, asset management and business process management.

Target Logistic Services.(Charles E. Bowen appointed)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Target Logistic Services, Los Angeles, appointed Charles E. Bowen Jr. to the new position of director, Latin America, based in Dallas. Bowen has worked in Latin American trade for the last 10 years with forwarders Team Worldwide and DSL and...

Passport Systems.(Gustavo L. Bottan appointed)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Passport Systems, a developer of advanced inspection scanners for sea and air cargo containers, named Gustavo L. Bottan vice president of business development. A onetime corporate director of U.S.-based operations at Siemens Nixdorf, Bottan had...

National Transportation Safety Board.(John Spencer appointed)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The National Transportation Safety Board's Acting Chairman Mark V. Rosenker appointed John Spencer as the board's director of the Office of Marine Safety. Spencer, a 35-year maritime safety issues veteran, worked for the U.S. Coast Guard for 21...

GF-X Advisory Council.(executive changes)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... GF-X Advisory Council, which represents the views of the airfreight industry to GF-X, announced the following changes to its advisory council. Ben Darnell replaces Steve Blane, who is stepping down. Darnell is the managing director of cargo...

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.(Jacqueline Glassman appointed)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta named Jacqueline Glassman deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Glassman joined NHTSA in 2002 and most recently served as its chief counsel. Before that,...

Yellow Roadway.(appointments)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Yellow Roadway, Overland, Kan., made several management moves. Stephen Bruffett was named senior vice president of field operations and sales for Yellow Transportation. Bruffett joined the company in 1998, and has been senior vice president of...

Ports of Indiana.(Rich Cooper appointed)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The Indiana Port Commission appointed Rich Cooper executive director for the Ports of Indiana. Cooper had served as the organization's chief operating officer since 2001. Prior to joining the organization, he served as global director of...

Total Quality Logistics.(Rick Weigand appointed)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Cincinnati-based third-party logistics provider Total Quality Logistics, which specializes in truckload transportation, hired Rick Weigand as accounting operations manager. He previously worked for Alderwoods Group and Citibank.

Central Freight Lines.(appointments)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Texas-based LTL carrier Central Freight Lines announced several personnel changes. Mike Perry was named division sales manager for the Plains Division. Perry had been vice president of sales and marketing at USF Dugan. Tony Antone was promoted...

NYK Group Americas.(Jack Peluso appointed)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... NYK Group Americas appointed Jack Peluso to director, group public affairs, a new position working with NYK companies on local, state and federal issues affecting NYK Group Americas operations. Peluso joined NYK in 2000 as director of...

UPS.(United Parcel Service of America Inc. appoints Andrew Connelly)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... UPS named Andrew Connelly senior vice president for South Asia, a Singapore-based position. Connelly had been senior vice president of UPS in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe.

Keystone Dedicated Logistics.(Bill Reed appointed)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Keystone Dedicated Logistics, Carnegie, Pa., hired Bill Reed as a manager of international business. Reed has more than 30 years of experience in import, export and international regulations. He previously worked for Calgon and Westinghouse in...

TW calendar.
September 5, 2005... SEPTEMBER 7-9. Breakbulk Transportation Conference & Exhibition (The Journal of Commerce), New Orleans. (760) 294-5563 or www.joc.com/conferences. 10-14. 59th Annual Transportation and Logistics Forum and Exposition (National Defense...

Food shipment suspected of contamination.(Q & A)(Barrett Transportation Consultants)(Interview)
September 5, 2005... Q: My company is a large flexible packaging manufacturer. Our freight is not to be combined with anything non-food grade. To reinforce this, we print a notice on the bill of lading stating this and we put a sticker on each pallet stating the...

Run-in.(note for truck drivers)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... This is a private note to truck drivers, and we're not going to get into the details. But just keep in mind, if you're going to run into a car, choose one that doesn't have the secretary of transportation's daughter-in-law at the wheel. Enough...

Logrolling.("logistics" and "logjam")(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... One frustrated shipper trying to make sense of his freight bottlenecks tells us he found the answer in the dictionary. After all, he says, that's where the word "logistics" is followed by "logjam."

Enforced.(hours of service rules)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... We're soliciting ideas for how the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration can enforce the sleeper berth requirements of the new HOS rules. We propose ankle bracelets to determine whether a driver is in the berth or not. Surely, that will...

Healthy.(driver health)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Some additional ways FMCSA could improve driver health: name Jack LaLanne deputy administrator of driver health; issue the entire 387-page rule to insomniac drivers before sleeper berth rest breaks; invent a low-calorie, low-fat and low-carb...

Captain obvious.(sleeplessness)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... Verbatim from the new hours of service rule: "The lack of adequate sleep has been shown to have detrimental impacts on the overall health of humans." We trust they didn't sit up all night researching that one.

Are we on?(invitation and then rescinding from Transportation Security Administration for the reporters)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... The Transportation Security Administration invited reporters to pizza and soda with new leader Kip Hawley. We were just about to accept when TSA sent another message rescinding the invite. That's OK--it probably would meant standing in a long...

Italian.(confusion regarding location of Transportation Intermediaries Association annual meeting)(Brief Article)
September 5, 2005... There's some confusion on the location of the next Transportation Intermediaries Association annual meeting. The site is listed as "Tuscon." Now, that could be a misspelled version of Tucson, Ariz. But we're booking a flight to Tuscany in Italy...

Security shame.(Editorial)
September 12, 2005... For several years, there have been complaints that the Department of Homeland Security, that unwieldy bureaucracy pieced together after September 11, was so intent on erecting barriers to terror that it was ignoring the more immediate and...

Running out of roads, and time.(Commentary)
September 12, 2005... With the energy bill and the highway bill now signed into law, it's time to reflect on what transpired and the implications for shippers in this country. Congress passed 12 extensions to the highway bill that expired in September 2003. The...

Diesel prices sped up a record-breaking climb last week.(Weekly Perspective)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Diesel prices sped up a record-breaking climb last week, with the U.S. average hitting $2.898 a gallon, rising an unprecedented 30 cents in a single week. After spiking to more than $70 a barrel in the days after Katrina hit the Gulf, oil...

As fuel soars to record levels, some carriers are capping fuel surcharges temporarily.(Weekly Perspective)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... As fuel soars to record levels, some carriers are capping fuel surcharges temporarily to combating the unprecedented price hikes. ABF Freight System and FedEx Freight said they will limit their fuel surcharges, saying the surcharges will...

Manufactured mess.(Hurricane Katrina 2005)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... The manufacturing sector is cooling down, just in time to face the economic wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Despite strong business, respondents to Institute of Supply Management's "Report on Business" say fuel prices are wreaking havoc on...

Disruptions in supply chains were reaching consumers in rising commodity prices.
September 12, 2005... As $3-a-gallon gasoline was becoming commonplace across the country, Hurricane Katrina also was starting to play a larger role in price and availability of other key commodities for U.S. consumers. Coffee, steel and construction supplies...

Struggling in Katrina's wake: damage to Gulf Coast infrastructure, U.S. economy will take months to repair, with a huge price tag for shippers.(Hurricane Katrina 2005)
September 12, 2005... Even before the waters began to drain slowly away from New Orleans, shippers were contemplating how to cope with Hurricane Katrina's impact for weeks and months as fuel costs rise and transportation bottlenecks leave supply chains in knots. ...

Fuel on the hill: Congress returns with look at energy prices, Army corps seen pushing for recovery funds.(Army Corps of Engineers)
September 12, 2005... Just when Congress thought it had finished with transportation by passing the highway bill, more pressing matters are coming down the road. With diesel and gasoline costs skyrocketing and fears of 1970s-style shortages growing, concerns...

Riding into Sunset.(Amtrak Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Four months ago Transportation Secretary Norman aineta stood on the rail tracks in Mobile, AIM., and urged the federal government to kill Amtrak's Sunset Limited rail line. "Every year, Amtrak squanders millions to run long distance trains...

FMC wants you.(Federal Maritime Commission)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... The Federal Maritime Commission wants insight from shippers as it rewrites rules on non-vessel-operating common carrier confidential service contracting. The FMC published a list of 15 questions in the Federal Register for shippers and...

Young seeks security chair.(Don Young, House Homeland Security Committee)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... The future of two congressional committees important to freight transportation hangs in the balance this week. Now that the highway bill is wrapped up, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, is bidding to become chairman of the House Homeland Security...

OOIDA to FMCSA: stop the clock.(Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Owner-operators are asking the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to change its revised hours of service roles to give truck drivers an additional daily break. The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association asked the FMCSA,...

Earmarked for relief?(Government & Regulation)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... A pork-barrel spending critic wants members of Congress to surrender highway bill earmark project money to help in the Hurricane Katrina recovery effort. Heritage Foundation fellow Ron Utt said in a memo on the think tank's Web site that...

Bigger buys bigger: with Exel in talks with DPWN, shippers ponder impact of logistics world's mega consolidation.(Deutsche Post World Net )
September 12, 2005... With no money changing hands yet, the word that Deutsche Post World Net was prepared to acquire Exel was sparking talk of responses that could ricochet through shippers' supply chains for months or years to come. "Exel would undoubtedly be...

Lowe's invests in logistics.(Lowe's Companies Inc.)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Lowe's says it will spend some $150 million to expand its distribution network in what the home improvement giant it calls Rapid Response Replenishment, or R3, logistics program. Releasing details of the plan reported in Traffic World Aug....

Smooth shipping for abrasives: Purolator's U.S. arms helps New England company simplify cross-border distribution to Canada.(Logistics & Technology)
September 12, 2005... In an age of "total global transportation solutions," some shippers still want logistics providers that do just one thing well. For Saint-Gobain Abrasives, that means handling the shipment of its products to Canada, a task it entrusts to...

GAC buys freight forwarder.(GAC Group acquires Benair Freight International)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... Strengthening its position in Europe and the Far East, Dubai-based GAC Group bought Benair Freight International, a 30-year-old British freight forwarder, for $9.2 million. GAC Group President Lars Safverstrom said the purchase bolsters his...

Canada's China connections: West Coast ports may have closer ties to China, but Halifax says all-water service via the Suez Canal can revive Atlantic Canada's container fortunes.(Special Report: MARITIME: CANADA)
September 12, 2005... Karen Oldfield stood in awe as she gazed at the new Yangshan port outside of Shanghai. The Halifax port director, along with Gordon Houston and Allen Domaas, chief executives of the Canadian ports of Vancouver and Fraser River, was on a bridge...

Montreal eyes transshipments.(Special Report: MARITIME: CANADA)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... The inland Port of Montreal won't enjoy a boom from direct Asian services via the Suez Canal because it is too far from the Atlantic. But port officials say they foresee indirect gains for Montreal. Dominic Taddeo, chief executive of...