Drayage

The government of India has set the date by which all major, or public, ports should have in automated gate technologies.

PierPass advisory committee will further investigate feasibility of a flat fee and a portwide peel-off program.

Limited rollout at GCT Bayonne is first at US East Coast's largest port.

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.

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.

Consolidation of container lines could spur them to finally make a clean break from control of intermodal chassis.

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.

Rep. Duncan Hunter views PierPass as a model for other ports' efforts to extend gate hours.

Cameron Roberts, partner at Roberts & Kehagiaras, offers ways drayage and trucking companies can protect themsleves from financial and legal exposure to Hanjin Shipping assets.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust shippers have shorter gate hours to drop off and pick up cargo.

The Port of Long Beach will chip away at the backlog of empty Hanjin Shipping-leased containers in Southern California that has built up since the container line declared bankruptcy on Aug. 31 when a ship calls to pick up some of the empties.

A New Jersey legislator said he will likely drop a plan to charge beneficial cargo owners a fee in an effort to cut drayage pollution at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

PierPass meeting with stakeholders could eventually result in a new pricing model for extended gates in LA-LB.

A federal judge on Tuesday allowed a chassis company to terminate leases with Hanjin Shipping.

DrayQ and DrayLink to be introduced in Seattle-Tacoma in early November to improve terminal efficiency for truckers and BCOs.

PierPass Inc. discusses possible changes in its model with port stakeholders in LA-LB.

FMC Chairman Mario Cordero expresses concern after receiving staff briefing on analysis of PierPass fee collections and disbursements.

Los Angeles and Long Beach have served as a laboratory for creative measures to cope with the growing container volumes and the surges of cargo from mega-ships that have also challenged other US ports.

A Long Beach container terminal's willingness to collect Hanjin Shipping containers only solves part of the problem.

Hanjin Shipping terminals in the United States will begin to accept empty Hanjin-owned containers.

Southern California’s landmark “pool of pools” in which three equipment providers share more than 72,000 inter-operable chassis could be improved.

The postponement is the latest road-bump to a somewhat controversial program aimed at smoothing the peaks and valleys of truck traffic flows.

Upward of 20,000 empty Hanjin containers remain scattered throughout Southern California with no place to go.

Nearly 10 percent of container traffic at the Northwest Seaport Alliance has migrated to off-peak hours since night gates began.

Drayage drivers serving the Port of Montreal can track terminal wait times via a new app.

A pilot program for the first truck appointment system in a terminal at the Port of New York and New Jersey will begin in October.

With chassis shortages in Los Angeles-Long Beach reaching a crisis level, a Southern California warehouseman is ready to accept and store empty and leased Hanjin Shipping containers.

Trucking companies that regularly hauled containers for Hanjin Shipping may end up losing tens of thousands of dollars.

Container owners have released a list aimed at making it easier for shippers and transportation providers to return containers leased to Hanjin Shipping.

Hanjin Shipping told a bankruptcy court in Newark, New Jersey, on Friday that railways, terminal operators, and container lessors are price gouging the South Korean line’s shippers by asking those cargo owners to pay more than usual to bring freight into US ports, in the wake of Hanjin’s recent bankruptcy filing.

Hanjin Shipping told a US District Bankruptcy Court on Friday how it would handle the late return of containers.

A heavyweight fight is shaping up in the Texas Legislature over proposals to allow trucks to carry heavier loads over the state’s highways.

Hanjin Shipping’s bankruptcy filing has once again exposed how fragile the new chassis regime is in the United States.

Beneficial cargo owners and truckers in Northern California support extended gate hours at Oakland's largest terminal.

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is seeking regulatory approval to increase tariffs.

New Orleans has become the latest US port to launch a program to help drayage truck owners finance replacement of older vehicles with newer, less-polluting models.

Acquisition of C&V Trucking adds drivers, terminal in Southern New England, and helps carrier optimize network for hour-of-service compliance.

India’s top port is continuing to work intensely to improve productivity after a tumultuous 2015.

One of the largest container depots at the Port of New York and New Jersey has begun accepting empty containers of bankrupt Hanjin Shipping.

Finding locations to drop empty Hanjin containers is a stumbling block for drayage operators and could be one for anyone looking to recover the assets.