U.P.S. said Thursday that it would close its freight sorting hub in Dayton, Ohio, in 2006, eliminating 1,400 jobs.
But above all, it should stop using its freight customers to subsidise passenger fares.Many changes designed to meet these challenges are chugging along sedately.
Three people were rescued and told investigators they escaped from the ship as it was tilting with its freight being pushed to one side.
Today, when the Venice film festival rolls into town with its freight of Hollywood celebrity, it is unloaded into Harry's Bar.
When Mexico started to privatise its freight lines in 1995 (it had given up on passenger trains, though there are now plans to reintroduce them), they were slow, rickety subsidy-burners, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
We need to keep oil and gas and coal in the ground, keep it from being burned and adding its freight of carbon to the global total.
My only complaint was that the chicken was not entirely tender, but perhaps that is by design, since it must be sturdy enough to support its freight of tomato sauce, four cheeses, sliced avocado and cilantro.
The line was discontinued later when the competing railroad agreed to lower its freight rate.
Eurotunnel is aggressively building its freight business and has three more truck shuttles on order.
(Fortress disputes this point, arguing that the upgrades are not needed to improve its freight operations).
Eurotunnel is cutting its freight charges from June after the commission threatened to go to court, so volumes should increase.
