Gulf Coast

Solidarity between the ILA and ILWU was on display the last time the ILA narrowly avoided a strike (and the ILWU did not).

The ILA maintains that it will not accept any extension of their current contract nor any potential mediation by the federal government.

The first tropical storm warning of the 2024 hurricane season was issued Tuesday, as South Texas prepared for a storm that could cause flooding along the Gulf Coast.

An unusually warm and dry winter might herald drought conditions in key areas of the Mississippi River Basin over the coming months.

Dockworkers are fully prepared to swap pallet jacks for picket signs come October.

Following 15 months of challenges, U.S. ports are once again experiencing substantial growth in inbound containers.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Idalia nears the Gulf Coast.

Amtrak and other stakeholders are asking the Surface Transportation Board to hold off on a November hearing on Amtrak’s request to restore Gulf Coast service because of a potential settlement.

Recent filings to the board from various parties focus on wo bears the burden to show if or how Amtrak service between Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans would affect freight operations.

The Surface Transportation Board will conduct a three-day hearing in late September to find out from Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern directly about issues related to the railways’ proposed merger.

The Surface Transportation Board has granted Amtrak’s request to access limited confidential data from CSX and Norfolk Southern as the board mulls Amtrak’s request to establish Gulf Coast passenger rail service. The board also ordered mediation among all parties.

Forecasters at Colorado State University say 2022 will see an above-average number of hurricanes and tropical storms.

The evidentiary hearing before the Surface Transportation Board, which was originally scheduled for two days, will likely tack on two more days as the board collects lots of data and testimony over how Amtrak’s service could affect freight and port operations.

The terminal in Orange, Texas, serves a diverse range of customers and is located between Beaumont, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana.

The two eastern U.S. railroads want the Surface Transportation Board to maintain its identity as an independent arbitrator as it decides whether to permit Amtrak to restore Gulf Coast service between Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans.

CSX and Norfolk Southern are asking the Surface Transportation Board to deny Amtrak’s request to restore U.S. Gulf Coast service between Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans unless the passenger railroad agrees to pay for capital improvements to facilitate rail moves.

Amtrak has petitioned the Surface Transportation Board to compel CSX and Norfolk Southern to allow access to their Gulf Coast networks as part of a broader plan to restore passenger service between Mobile, Alabama, and New Orleans.

As fall harvest nears, grain shippers and freight railroads are taking steps to ensure network fluidity for export-bound grain trains in and out of the Pacific Northwest.

President Biden is working with FEMA and governors to coordinate recovery response as Hurricane Ida approaches the Gulf Coast.

State and local leaders have told people to leave parts of the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Ida likely approaches Sunday landfall.

Class I railroads are keeping an eye on Hurricane Ida as the storm is expected to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast this weekend.

Carriers, shippers and receivers should begin preparing as Ida could be a major hurricane Sunday at landfall in the northern Gulf Coast.

The next tropical storm could impact the U.S. just a week after Henri drenched parts of the Northeast (forecast video included).

The Surface Transportation Board will review Amtrak’s request to restore Gulf Coast service, dismissing calls by CSX and Norfolk Southern, whose networks will be affected by the service restoration, to reject the request.

Establishment of Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts (PADDs)

Amtrak wants federal regulators to expedite a request to reestablish passenger rail service between Mobile and New Orleans. But CSX and Norfolk Southern say, not so fast.

After at least a dozen storm-related deaths, Tropical Storm Claudette will move into the Atlantic later Monday (forecast video included).

Tropical system could slow down freight flows this weekend in the lower Mississippi Valley (forecast video included).

Truckers could run into areas of flooding this weekend in the lower Mississippi Valley as a potential tropical storm develops (forecast video included).

The U.S. Department of Transportation wants the Surface Transportation Board to take up Amtrak’s request asking to establish passenger service between Mobile and New Orleans.

Two Atlantic hurricane season records have been broken recently, with 20 days left to go.

Zeta, which weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall Wednesday, could cause some service issues.

Several major roads and bridges are closed after Hurricane Zeta slammed the Gulf Coast Wednesday.

Third Gulf Coast hurricane of the season could hit the U.S. around midweek. Trucking capacity may tighten there for a while.

Hurricane conditions and “life-threatening storm surge” to begin Friday along portions of the Gulf Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Thursday is the last day this week that carriers can pick up loads from some Gulf Coast markets. Hurricane Delta is to make landfall Friday.

Hurricane Delta will likely make landfall Friday near the Texas-Louisiana border.

Although the hurricane isn’t expected to make landfall until later this week, the Class I railroads are preparing now for potential service disruptions.

Carriers and shippers should prepare for road and port closures in parts of the northern U.S. Gulf Coast.

Carriers and shippers should prepare for possible shut downs of Southern roads and ports in a few days.

The hurricane is expected to make landfall in the New Orleans area sometime Tuesday.

Shipping line works with APM Terminals Mobile, the Alabama State Port Authority and Team Rubicon to get 36,000 pounds of needed goods to the people of Louisiana.

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Key ports and roads across the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast remain closed in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura.

Hurricane Laura, eyeing U.S. landfall Wednesday night, is now forecast to produce a “life-threatening storm surge” along parts of the Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Laura is predicted to make landfall near Port Houston, part of the nation’s largest logistics hub for oil, gas and petrochemicals.

Soon-to-be Hurricane Laura will disrupt ship-to-shore operations at Louisiana ports as well as offshore oil operations.

The railroads are taking precautions to ensure their networks are secure ahead of two U.S. Gulf Coast storms.

Ocean cargo will be delayed as back-to-back tropical cyclones eye the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Ocean cargo will be delayed as two back-to-back hurricanes are forecast to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Tropical weather alerts posted for parts of the U.S. with two land-falling hurricanes likely in the coming days.

For the first time in almost 90 years, two hurricanes could hit the U.S. Gulf Coast on the same day.

For the first time in almost 90 years, two hurricanes could hit the U.S. Gulf Coast on the same day.

Tropical Depression Cristobal strengthening to tropical storm prior to U.S. landfall.

Carriers should secure freight from Gulf Coast markets before potential tropical storm approaches late-week.

Eighty percent chance of Tropical Storm Cristobal developing in Gulf of Mexico later this week. Could hit U.S. Gulf Coast.

$360 million allotted to deepen the Port of Mobile and the Lower Mississippi River.

BP imagines a scenario where a plastics ban crushes demand for petchem feedstocks.

Barclays forecasts a drop in oil price; China is witnessing a historic fall in auto sales over stock market crash and U.S.-China trade war; banks are discussing on emergency financing to liquidate Sears.

Hurricane Michael is forecast to make landfall as a strengthening Category 4; Sears may go bankrupt; retailers struggle to fill the hole left by Toys R Us; Cowen is bullish on Canadian Pacific; Seoul continues ploughing money into HMM to cover operations.

Across the region, governments are making preparations. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency, activating members of the National Guard.