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Georgia’s Port of Brunswick, currently the No. 2 auto port in the U.S., announced a planned 50 percent increase in roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) capacity increase and future plans to expand automobile processing spaces at the annual State of the Ports address.
Under Canada’s House of Commons Bill C-48, oil tankers carrying more than 12,500 metric tons of crude oil or persistent oil as cargo would be barred from calling all northern British Columbia ports.
Class I railway Kansas City Southern’s (KCS) net income rose 7 percent to $129.9 million for the quarter on revenues that grew 9 percent to $656.6 million compared with the same 2016 period, according to the company’s most recent financial statements.
Since last week, spot container rates from Shanghai to Europe, the Mediterranean and the U.S. have all declined, according to the Shanghai Shipping Exchange’s Shanghai Containerized Freight Index (SCFI).
COSCO Shipping’s $6.3 billion offer for the parent of Hong Kong-based ocean carrier OOCL is still dependent on several other preconditions, including anti-trust reviews by competition authorities in China, the European Union and the United States.
The Omaha, Neb.-based transportation and logistics services provider’s net income increased 19 percent year-over-year during the quarter to $22.5 million amid an improved freight market, according to Werner Enterprises’ most recent financial statements.
The increase in payments for third quarter 2017 was the largest quarterly gain since 2014, and was accompanied by a 3.3 percent increase in shipment volumes despite a difficult hurricane season, according to U.S. Bank.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that the likely cause of a 2015 Union Pacific rail collision in Texas was sleeping crew members and a lack of a functioning positive train control (PTC) system.
According to the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, the availability of large parcels of industrial land for logistics warehouses and cargo distribution centers is declining at an alarming rate.
The temperature-sensitive truckload carrier recorded a net income of $7.9 million for the quarter, falling 6.9 percent from the same 2016 period, according to Marten Transport’s most recent financial statements.
The acquisition of the two vessels follows the announcement earlier this year that the company was buying 14 containerships with an aggregate capacity of 57,100 TEUs.
Liner carriers APL and Cheng Lie Navigation (CNC Line) will launch the Korea China Straits (KCS) service on Nov. 18, which will deploy five Panamax vessels.
Pontikes Development is breaking ground on a 3 million-square-foot distribution center near Port Houston at a time when available industrial and retail space in the region is in high demand.
Sections of the long-haul and drayage trucking communities are still unprepared for implementation of the fast approaching federal mandate to install electronic logging devices (ELDs) on all commercial trucks and buses by Dec. 18, 2017.
At a House hearing on infrastructure last week, Congress heard from highway and transit stakeholders, who all echoed the same sentiment: federal funds are necessary for infrastructure investment, yet they are shrinking.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released a draft version of their proposed 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) update in July and are expected to vote on whether to approve it during a Nov. 2 joint hearing.
The Swiss-based freight forwarder recorded a consolidated profit of CHF 48.4 million (U.S. $49.6 million) and net forwarding revenues of CHF 4.1 billion during the first nine months of 2017, up 4.1 percent and 5.2 percent year-over-year, respectively.
Development of automated platooning, which enables groups of driverless trucks to travel in single file on a roadway, is further along than some might think, according to Steven Shladover of California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology.
Through September, combined import volumes at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, known collectively as the Northwest Seaport Alliance (NWSA), have risen 3 percent to 1.13 million TEUs, while exports jumped 11 percent to 1.08 million TEUs.
