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FMC’s Doyle backs safeguards for domestic alliance suppliers
Reynolds Hutchins, Associate Editor |
Such a move already has support on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have been weighing options to strengthen Federal Maritime Commission safeguards against collusion among carriers in the world’s three major VSAs.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Container lines
Trucking News
Drayage
Clear air rules pose Seattle-Tacoma drayage challenge
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Although the harbor drayage community has known about the clean-truck mandate since 2008, only 46 percent of the trucks that pick up and deliver containers in Seattle and Tacoma are compliant.
Drayage
North American ports
ILA criticizes NY-NJ port authority’s rents for chassis depots
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
“We’re angry that the port authority is acting like a real estate broker instead of trying to help the industry.”
Marine terminals
Trucking News
Drayage
LA-LB truck turn times stable amid new alliances
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
In recent weeks some terminals have been struggling to handle a surge in new business.
North American ports
Trucking News
Drayage
BCOs stand to gain from tech predicting chassis demand
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
More accurate predictions on chassis demand are needed to reduce equipment dislocations at container terminals.
Drayage
Marine terminals
NY-NJ ‘pool of pools’ forms but isn’t port-wide
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
TRAC, Flexi-Van, and DCLI now operate competing pools that don’t share equipment.
Marine terminals
Drayage
Crowley aims to speed up San Juan gates via new system
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Installation of the new Tideworks Technology system at San Juan follows the rollout of the system last September at Crowley’s Port Everglades, Florida terminal.
Container lines
Drayage
US shippers expect pinch, not capacity crunch, from ELDs
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Shippers and logistics operators at recent conferences didn't expect a massive capacity crunch to follow the rollout of an electronic logging mandate this year, but truckers warned there will be an impact.
Truckload
LTL
Truck brokers
Drayage
NY-NJ appointment system expanding as turn times contract
Hugh R. Morley, Senior Editor |
<p>The operator of the Port of New York and New Jersey’s first ever terminal gate appointment program is expanding the 4-month-old pilot initiative.</p>
North American ports
Drayage
Forward Air spreads drayage wings to Southeast
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Forward Air has expanded its US Midwest-focused drayage footprint to the Southeast.
Trucking News
Drayage
Air Cargo
Air Cargo Forwarder News
ELDs signal higher US drayage costs for BCOs ahead
By William B. Cassidy, Hugh Morley and Bill Mongelluzzo |
Electronic logging of truck driver hours will run smack into congestion and delays at ports and rail yards, forcing changes to drayage operations and threatening higher costs.
Drayage
DP World Nhava Sheva taps new tech for truck gates
Special Indian Correspondent |
Technology aims to reduce wait times at India's busiest container gateway.
International ports
Drayage
LA-LB chassis back-up sends warning signals
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Current back-up of chassis in LA-LB port is sign of deeper problems.
Marine terminals
Drayage
Need for NY-NJ port extended gates comes into focus
Hugh R. Morley, Senior Editor |
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but the four main terminals at its namesake port, the Port of New York and New Jersey, are closed by 7 p.m.
North American ports
Drayage
Slideshow: Shipping insights heard at TPM
JOC Staff |
JOC’s 17th Annual TPM Conference was bursting with sharp insights on where the industry is headed and on ways to break the cycle of overcapacity, less-than-spectacular service, and unsustainable rates.
Container lines
Drayage
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Vancouver truck appointment evolution shows challenges for US ports
Mark Szakonyi, Executive Editor |
The evolution of the Port of Vancouver's truck appointment system highlights the delicate walk ahead for US ports.
Drayage
Accounting report backs PierPass pricing methodology
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Industry acceptance of the KPMG report is yet to be determined because key stakeholders have not had time to thoroughly analyze the report's conclusions.
Drayage
Chassis shortage solution demands change from all involved
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The practices of container lines, terminal operators, intermodal equipment operators, truckers, and beneficial cargo owners all contribute to chassis shortages at US ports.
Marine terminals
Container lines
Trucking News
Drayage
LA, GE working on smart terminals to better react to surges
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The Port of Los Angeles and GE Transportation are working together to build what they envision will be container terminals of the 21st century.
North American ports
Drayage
DCLI acquires 11,000 chassis from NYK
JOC Staff |
Direct ChassisLink Inc. has acquired the 11,000-unit chassis fleet of NYK Line (North America) that now operates in pools managed by Consolidated Chassis Management and its affiliates and in the Hampton Roads Chassis Pool.
Drayage
Still no agreement on NY-NJ chassis pool
Dustin Braden, Shipper Relationship Manager and Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Intermodal equipment providers hope to launch a long-delayed universal chassis pool at the Port of New York and New Jersey before the Bayonne Bridge is raised later this year.
Drayage
Marine terminals
XPO’s Jacobs blasts Teamsters after TPM protest
Hugh R. Morley, Senior Editor and Dustin Braden, Shipper Relationship Manager |
“The Teamsters are out of control.”
Logistics Technology News
Drayage
Widdows brings BCOs cargo flow info via chassis
Peter Tirschwell |
If properly fitted with sensors, a chassis can evolve well beyond its current state of utility.
Drayage
Marine terminals
Early trucker input on gates key to cutting terminal turn times
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Marine terminals encouraged to engage with truckers in order to improve turn times.
Drayage
Interest in US surface transport acquisitions rises
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The acquistion of the Evans Network of Companies, an intermodal operator, signals renewed interest in assets as well as technology.
Drayage
New Orleans, Mobile quietly pioneer truck appointments
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
After initial apprehensiveness, motor carriers and shippers appear to have adjusted to the systems.
Drayage
Charleston terminal recovering after ILA slowdown
Reynolds Hutchins, Associate Editor |
Truck traffic at the Port of Charleston’s largest container terminal ground to a halt for several hours Friday.
North American ports
Drayage
NY-NJ terminal blames harsh weather for truck delays
Hugh R. Morley, Senior Editor |
One of the four main terminals at Port of New York and New Jersey suffered heavier than usual truck congestion for the fourth day in a row.
North American ports
Drayage
Extended Virginia port gate hours to handle snow delays
Reynolds Hutchins, Associate Editor |
The Port of Virginia will extend truck gate hours at its Virginia International Gateway terminal, starting Monday, to make up for delays caused by the closing of VIG and three other terminals earlier this month due to snow.
North American ports
Trucking News
Drayage
NY-NJ appointment system cuts truck turns without major hitch
Hugh R. Morley, Senior Editor |
The appointment system designed to combat congestion and improve efficiency at a major terminal of the Port of New York and New Jersey went off without a major glitch on its first regular work day Tuesday.
Marine terminals
Trucking News
Drayage
Report details cause of fatal April NY-NJ port accident
Hugh R. Morley, Senior Editor |
The accident occurred April 21 in a line of trucks waiting at the staging area at the Global Container Terminal.
North American ports
Drayage
New fight brews at FMC over detention and demurrage
Mark Szakonyi, Executive Editor |
A diverse group of shippers is ready to challenge fees that container lines and marine terminals impose for delays at US ports. But first the shippers need approval from federal maritime regulators.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
North American ports
Trucking News
Drayage
LA-LB terminal turns suffer as night falls, analysis shows
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Marine terminal service to truckers in LA-Long Beach deteriorates during the night shift, analysis shows.
Marine terminals
Drayage
Major Indian ports given deadline to complete gate automation
India Special Correspondent |
The government of India has set the date by which all major, or public, ports should have in automated gate technologies.
Marine terminals
Trucking News
Drayage
Reform of LA-LB ports' PierPass seen in flat fee or portwide peel-off
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
PierPass advisory committee will further investigate feasibility of a flat fee and a portwide peel-off program.
North American ports
Trucking News
Drayage
NY-NJ terminal tests truck appointments
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Limited rollout at GCT Bayonne is first at US East Coast's largest port.
North American ports
Trucking News
Drayage
Hasty decisions on PierPass could undermine gains
Peter Tirschwell |
<p>The PierPass extended gates program at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, which has moved vast quantities of cargo from daytime to nights and weekends, has come under no shortage of criticism in recent months.</p>
North American ports
Trucking News
Drayage
US shipper, trucker petition could trigger detention and demurrage relief
JOC Staff |
A broad range of US shippers, truckers, and transportation intermediaries are asking federal maritime regulators to consider creating a rule to prevent marine terminals and container lines from charging demurrage and detention fees.
Transport, Trade, and Regulation News
Container lines
Marine terminals
North American ports
Drayage
Container line mergers could force clean break from chassis control
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Consolidation of container lines could spur them to finally make a clean break from control of intermodal chassis.
Container lines
Marine terminals
Drayage
NY-NJ port expands truck eligibility for cleaner replacements
Hugh R. Morley, Senior Editor |
<p>Authorities have expanded a program designed to curb traffic and pollution in the Port of New York and New Jersey by awarding grants to the owners of older drayage trucks so that they can be replaced by newer vehicles. </p>
North American ports
Trucking News
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