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A peek into the logistics rumor mill of the 1980s

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Earhart Museum nominated for top award

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Top 10 FreightWaves Classics of 2023

Logistics and transportation have a long, storied past with countless anecdotes that can be both gripping and informative. This year, FreightWaves Classics covered many of these stories and we plan to continue in the new year!

In case you missed some, we’ve compiled a list of the most read articles of 2023.

The deadliest bridge collapse in modern history

Was Gordon Lightfoot’s song about the Edmund Fitzgerald accurate?
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is a 6.5-minute tune about the sinking of a...

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Top 10 Tracks Through Time episodes of 2023

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As 2023 comes to a close, so does the inaugural year of the Tracks Through Time podcast.

The podcast is an audiovisual version of the history-focused FreightWaves Classics column, spotlighting interesting and lesser-known stories in history. We’ve had so much fun bringing you these stories all year and can’t wait to share more in 2024! 

To close out the year, we’ve compiled a list of...

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COLUMN | Creative worry and how to address it [Tug Times]

A wise old bird who was given the unenviable task of teaching me to drive a supply boat told me early in the process that I should never take the boat into any situation unless I could see at least two ways to get out of it again when things went wrong. It was excellent […]

The post COLUMN |...

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Looking back to when digital processes started taking hold in shipping

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Find out how Rockefeller Christmas tree is transported year after year

Did you know the same company has delivered the holiday tree to Rockefeller Plaza in New York City since 1982? 

This year the famous Christmas tree that lights up Rockefeller Plaza is from Vestal, New York. The tree has been a tradition in the plaza since 1931. But how are the logistics of delivering such a massive tree even possible? 

Find out in this week’s episode of Tracks Through Time, in which FreightWaves TV host Mary O’Connell takes a turn telling Deputy Editor Brielle Jaekel some of the...

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BOOK REVIEW | Dead Man’s Chest & Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology

These two specialised but nevertheless very interesting books should be read successively, as their subjects, but not their foci, are closely related and their ideas are closely linked. Maritime archaeology really only came of age after the Second World War, but it has since become a very popular...

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