Infrastructure

Funding from FEMA will help protect operations and infrastructure at the second-busiest U.S. container hub.

In the first episode of the new Bring It Home podcast, co-hosts Craig Fuller and JP Hampstead speak with Dunavant Enterprises CEO Bill Dunavant about the future of Memphis Tennessee as “America’s supply chain capital.”

Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan increases rail capacity by 250 cars and adds hundreds of feet of new dock for expanded all-water cargoes.

New bills in both the Senate and House of Representatives would upgrade the 45G tax credit for inflation and expand trackage covered under the program.

Truckstop.com’s Brent Hutto discusses the company’s zero-tolerance policy toward fraud and its recent work with the FBI.

The Montreal Port Authority is spending more than $42 million to restore and upgrade the Pie-IX rail bridge, a project that will also help a port-based sugar refiner boost capacity.

In the latest move to strengthen the largest U.S. container gateway, a key Port of Los Angeles terminal will receive $52 million to upgrade its on-dock rail capacity.

A new plan calls for public-private investment in the Port of Portland’s money-losing Terminal 6, the state’s only international container facility.

Minnesota’s federally mandated State Freight Plan identifies key areas for investment in the statewide transportation system to ensure goods movement that is safe, efficient and sustainable.

As electrification and infrastructure startups mature, banks get interested in lending money to help the best of them grow.

Natron Energy plans to build the first U.S. sodium ion battery plant, thanks to investment by the state-owned rail corridor and other public/private economic development organizations.

Construction continues on a Chicago bridge project designed to reduce delays and improve flow by untangling freight and passenger rail lines.

A Harris-Walz win in November could bring national attention to a highway funding scheme taking root among states.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration announced $8.75 million in grant awards to 15 shipyards across 12 states in an effort to increase productivity and expand local job opportunities.

Is wireless charging an idea whose time has come for electric trucks? In some use cases, the answer is yes.

Sitetracker helps companies like ChargePoint automate tasks surrounding getting electric charging points up and running faster.

Perpetually troubled electric van maker Workhorse Group may be in worse shape than it appears. Little cash and slack orders are two factors.

A newsier-than-typical Advanced Clean Transportation Expo featured the first appearance by Tesla and a single stage gathering of legacy OEMs.

Regulators pushing to make the electric truck transition go faster are getting pushback from a range of industry stakeholders.

The potential energy and environmental gains from autonomous trucking are laid out in a new white paper from Aurora Innovation.