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Stakeholders sorting out per diem bills under new FMC rules
Michael Angell, Senior Editor |
The agency’s detention and demurrage rules are still unclear as to billing those charges to truckers, according to challenges put forth by ocean carriers.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Container lines
Forwarding
Marine terminals
North American ports
Drayage
CMA CGM pays $1.9 million to settle FMC finding over billing action
Micheal Angell, Senior Editor |
FMC investigators found the carrier “overbroadly defined and applied” the merchant clause in its bill of lading to a third party “who should not have been billed,” the agency said.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Container Shipping News
Container lines
Forwarding
Drayage
Rise of private chassis fleets forces IEPs, railroads to rethink operations
Michael Angell, Senior Editor |
The issue of whose chassis to use to haul a container remains unclear as more truckers opt to use their own, but ocean carriers and pools also look to supply the market.
Intermodal providers
Drayage
Trucking News
North-American rail
FMC clarifies language around ocean carrier-drayage provider billing
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Two weeks before new rules around detention and demurrage billing go into effect, the US Federal Maritime Commission has told ocean carriers that contracts independent of a “through bill of lading” fall outside its jurisdiction.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
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Drayage
Peloton slams Flexport over ‘millions’ in D&D charges in FMC complaint
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
The exercise equipment maker alleged in a complaint to the Federal Maritime Commission that the forwarder failed to meet its obligations under a carrier haulage agreement.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Container Shipping News
Drayage
Trucking News
Cooperative chassis pools folding in three US cities amid loss of business
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
So-called “gray” pools in Kansas City, Memphis and St. Louis will stop operating on May 1 after ocean carriers and chassis providers pulled their support in the last 12 months.
Drayage
US DOT awards $148 million in grants to lower truck pollution at ports
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
The federal grants lean heavily on further electrification of heavy-duty trucks, but also look to other methods for reducing emissions.
North American ports
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Drayage
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US CBP clears chassis maker CIE in case alleging tariff evasion
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
CIE suspended all imports of chassis and frames during a year-long investigation, but the manufacturer can resume operations now that US customs officials have found no wrongdoing.
Drayage
Baltimore port closure presents unexpected challenges for mid-Atlantic trucking
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
US importers accustomed to shipping through Baltimore are facing the prospect of higher drayage and warehousing costs as they look for drivers, chassis and space at alternate ports.
Surface
Drayage
Trucking News
APM looks to ease trucker woes over New Jersey terminal appointment system
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
APM Terminals will make more slots available for retrieving import containers at its Port Elizabeth site as truckers say delays in booking appointments are worsening.
North American ports
Container Shipping News
Drayage
Trucking News
FMC’s new rules to prevent truckers from being hit with D&D bills
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
Under final guidelines for detention and demurrage billing, only the shipper or consignee can be on the hook for such charges and bills must be sent within 30 days.
Trucking News
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Container lines
North American ports
Drayage
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Wilmington to add on-site transload facility in bid to pull new business
Teri Errico Griffis, Associate Editor, and Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
The 25,000-square-foot facility, to be developed by East Coast drayage and logistics provider PortCity, is due to open at the North Carolina port by the end of March.
Trucking News
North American ports
Drayage
US Commerce Department rejects Pitts appeal in marine chassis case
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
The decision involving China-related tariffs is major blow to Pitts Enterprises and could force its Dorsey Intermodal chassis subsidiary out of business.
North American ports
Drayage
US Labor Department resets guidelines on contractor, employee status
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Trucking groups will be lining up to challenge a Labor Department rulemaking that will change guidelines used to determine when a worker is a contractor or employee.
Surface
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Trucking News
Truckload
Truckers fighting ILWU, LA-LB terminal operators over chassis paperwork proposal
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
Truckers say implementing the measure would push average truck turn times in Los Angeles and Long Beach, already among the highest in the US, even higher.
North American ports
Drayage
Pilot project aims to open more trucker slots in Los Angeles-Long Beach
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The Harbor Trucking Association is teaming with Yusen Terminals in Los Angeles to increase the number of appointment slots each day by cutting the container receiving window from two hours to 90 minutes.
North American ports
Marine terminals
Drayage
Rail News
Revamped Southeast chassis pool to charge ‘penalty fee’ to unregistered users
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
Consolidated Chassis Management is asking cargo owners to encourage their trucking partners to sign up for the South Atlantic Chassis Pool (SACP) 3.0 before it launches in October.
Drayage
Chassis maker CIE halts US equipment imports
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
CIE Manufacturing, a major manufacturer of new chassis, has suspended all imports of chassis into the US in response to an investigation by US customs officials.
Drayage
North American ports
C&K Trucking expands to Columbus and Kansas City, with more to come
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
The major eastern US drayage provider is looking to expand its footprint to California and the Pacific Northwest before the end of the year, markets where its major competitors already operate.
Drayage
Chassis providers rehabbing fleets as costs for new units remain elevated
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
With demand in ports and rail hubs weak, chassis providers are turning their attention to refurbishing older, less-reliable units, a process that is expected to take years to complete.
Drayage
US chassis lessors learning from pandemic surge as demand wanes
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
With international rail volume down by double-digit percentages in 2023, chassis providers have an opportunity to reflect on the struggles of 2021 and 2022 and adjust their networks ahead of the next surge.
Drayage
First new chassis arrive for new South Atlantic pool
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
The first chassis for a new equipment pool covering the ports of Jacksonville, Savannah, and Wilmington, NC, arrived this week, the first step ahead of an October launch.
Drayage
North American ports
CBP rules US chassis manufacturer evaded tariffs on China-sourced parts
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
The ruling could place an additional burden on US chassis manufacturers to ensure their subcontractors are using US materials or paying duties on parts from China.
Drayage
Shippers, regulators muddle through ‘grey area’ of rail storage fees
Mark Szakonyi, Executive Editor |
Shippers want Congress to address their inability to challenge rail demurrage fees when they contract for merchant haulage, but finding a solution will be tricky, writes Journal of Commerce Executive Editor Mark Szakonyi.
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Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Geodis acquires South Florida-based drayage carrier
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
Geodis has acquired Southern Companies, a South Florida-based container drayage provider, the latest in a series of trucking and warehousing acquisitions in the US over the last two months.
Drayage
NY-NJ port stakeholders improve trucker experience as downturn cuts work
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
The influx of new drivers to the New York-New Jersey port helped it handle record volumes in 2022, but the downturn means less work and possibly more turnover.
Drayage
Container Shipping News
North American ports
Drayage rates fall sharply amid downturn in NY-NJ port volumes
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
New York-New Jersey port truckers who worked five days per week last year are now down to about half that amount, sending spot drayage rates well below levels seen in 2021 and 2022.
Drayage
North American ports
Trucking News
Truck brokers
Intermodal providers
NFI, RoadOne expand networks with acquisitions in Canada, US
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Transportation and logistics companies continue to grow by acquiring competitors, and although the wave of acquisitions may have crested there is still plenty of opportunity in a soft market.
Surface
Drayage
Trucking News
Truckload
IEPs file brief siding with ocean carriers in FMC chassis dispute
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
The independent equipment providers say upending the current business model would create additional chassis shortages and invoicing problems that would inconvenience cargo owners.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Container lines
Drayage
Drayage tech provider PortPro targeting shippers with new tracking tools
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Drayage software vendor PortPro is attempting to narrow the gap between the tools that port truckers and their shipper customers use with a new container milestone tracking product it has launched.
Logistics Technology News
North American ports
Drayage
Trucking News
Maersk shifts detention billing to consignees ahead of FMC regulation
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The move by the carrier comes as the FMC is in the midst of a rulemaking process around detention and demurrage billing mandated by the passage of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 last June.
Drayage
Container Shipping News
Container lines
North American ports
Trucking News
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
US startup eyes street turn tech expansion throughout North America
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Technology startup Qualle is trying to overcome drayage industry inertia around matching empty import boxes with export loads outside of ports by using early-stage funding to serve every North American port market.
Logistics Technology News
Port News
Marine terminals
North American ports
Drayage
Trucking News
FMC judge ruling on chassis will have major impact, but questions linger
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
A decision by an FMC administrative judge on chassis usage will shake up the way chassis are provisioned for ocean containers, but there are several unknowns on what the future will look like at ports and rail hubs.
Container lines
Container Shipping News
North American ports
Drayage
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Spot truckload rates rising at US East Coast ports, falling on West Coast
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Analysts have told the Journal of Commerce they expect spot market pricing to bottom out and remain flat for some time before rising again, most likely at a slow pace.
Surface
Drayage
Trucking News
Truckload
FMC administrative judge rules in truckers’ favor in chassis dispute
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Ocean carriers cannot limit the use of chassis by motor carriers in merchant haulage, the FMC’s chief administrative judge said in an “initial” summary decision meant to resolve a long-running dispute.
Maritime
Container Shipping News
Container lines
Drayage
Investors fuel drayage software provider PortPro with $12 million in funding
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Investors see drayage as an area rife for technological improvement, with software provider PortPro the latest startup to secure funding to empower port truckers.
Logistics Technology News
Port News
Drayage
Trucking News
WiseTech makes US drayage play with acquisition of Envase
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
WiseTech Global, owner of the most widely used forwarding software product, has acquired a prominent vendor of drayage management software, capping a year of takeovers for the company.
Logistics Technology News
Forwarding
Port News
Drayage
Supply chain
RoadOne looks to tap Houston freight growth with deal for Texas drayage carrier
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
The sharp increase in freight activity seen at the Port of Houston over the past year has prompted national drayage provider RoadOne IntermodaLogistics to acquire a Texas motor carrier.
Drayage
North American ports
Trucking News
Truckload
Proposed federal rule threatens independent contractor model in trucking: opponents
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
A new rule proposed by the US Department of Labor could signal the beginning of the end of the independent contractor model in port drayage and other trucking sectors, opponents say.
Drayage
Trucking labor
Falling imports mute capacity impact of California’s new clean-fleet drayage rule
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Although truckers at California’s ports must comply with a new clean-fleet rule and enforcement of the AB5 worker classification law, declining cargo volumes should prevent a drayage capacity shortage.
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