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Thursday morning Frontline, John Fredriksen's tanker company, reported a net loss of $0.81 per share.
ThinkstockCanaccord Genuity has issued a very mixed report on the tanker and shipping companies that move energy products around the globe. 24/7 Wall St. gave the coverage of these and compared them...
UPS cutting the one-price strategy as part of its offerings means higher prices for shippers, but almost certainly higher revenue and more controlled costs for UPS.
ThinkstockSince reporting Q1 earnings last month, less-than-truckload weight (LTL) trucker Old Dominion Freight Line (NASDAQ: ODFL) shares have stomped the gas, and rushed ahead 12% already. This...
NewLead Holdings jumped from a penny stock last Thursday when the dry bulk shipping company enacted a one-for-50 reverse stock split so its shares would meet the minimum requirement for a listing on...
Residents of 15 more U.S. cities are now eligible for Sunday delivery of their orders from Amazon.com. The service is available only on some items and in designated cities.
ThinkstockDryships Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) has reported its fourth quarter earnings. The drybulk and petroleum products marine transportation services provider reported a net loss of $24.4 million, or a...
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners L.P. (NYSE: KMP) announced on Monday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire American Petroleum Tankers and State Class Tankers for nearly $1 billion.
courtesy Making Change at Walmart and UFCWIf discounts are the stuff of Black Friday’s allure, then Walmart (NYSE: WMT) has set enough products which sell for $10 or less to draw nearly every...
Wikimedia CommonsWhile J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) and Walmart (NYSE: WMT) have run ads in newspapers and online around the country to get shoppers through their doors in a desperate attempt to take...
courtesy of USPSThe United States Postal Service made two announcement recently. First, it announced a $5 billion annual loss. It also said the price of a first class stamp would rise from $.46 to...
Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) challenge to large retailers is not just that it does not need physical stores to do business, nor that it has one of the most visited websites in...
By Tkgd2007 at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia CommonsFedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) expects December 2 to be its peak shipping day this holiday season. Most analysts believe this means...
ThinkstockShipping rates as measured by the Baltic Dry Index are up about a third since the end of August. The index measures shipping rates for dry bulk cargoes such as grain and iron ore and is...
ThinkstockThe 2012 State of the Climate report released by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) indicates that “Conditions in the Arctic were a major story of 2012.” Ice in the region is...