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The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles will provide US$25 million in partnership with regional air quality agencies to jump-start charging infrastructure for electric heavy-duty drayage trucks in the largest U.S. container ports.The Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee is leading some US$135 million in projects that will install up to 207 charging units at eight sites around Southern California, in Wilmington, Rancho Dominguez, Rialto, Fontana, Commerce and ...
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The Port of New Orleans said it has purchased the 210,000 square foot warehouse located at 5200 Coffee Drive in the Uptown section of its Port of New Orleans Terminal.The acquisition is supported by a new, 10-year lease with The Kearney Cos. Inc., a subsidiary ...
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Though the Georgia Ports Authority benefitted greatly from roll-on, roll-off cargoes diverted from the Port of Baltimore following the closure of that shipping channel, the Port of Brunswick is on pace to handle more than 860,000 ro-ro units at Colonel’s Island Terminal in fiscal year ...
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Port Freeport in Texas has reached a five-year lease agreement with Chiquita Fresh North America, with an option for an additional five years, which the port said marks “a milestone in their ongoing partnership.”"We are extremely excited about the continued partnership with Chiquita," said Phyllis ...
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Descartes Systems Group, a provider of-demand, software-as-a-service solutions, said a study found that 40 percent of shippers and logistics service providers plan to invest in transportation technology to prepare for industry and regulatory changes.Decartes’ study, its eight-annual Global Transportation Management Benchmark Survey, surveyed more than ...
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South Carolina Ports makes an US$87 billion economic impact in South Carolina each year, and more than half of that economic benefit occurs in the Upstate in the state’s northwest corner, the port authority said.A recent study by research economist and University of South Carolina ...
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Supply chain solutions provider NFI said it has acquired the freight brokerage operation of Transfix, a digital freight platform.Transfix will pivot its core business to solely focus on software and data solutions for brokers, shippers and carriers, with NFI to be the first third-party customer ...
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SMART port technologies that facilitate ‘just in time’ ship arrivals could significantly reduce greenhouse and pollutant gas emissions at global container ports, Drewry said in its latest quarterly Ports and Terminals Insight report.
Investing in such technologies at ports with a disproportionate amount of waiting ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation has called on breakbulk cargo owners, carriers and other stakeholders to identify critical freight routes that are critical to multimodal transportation across the U.S.The DOT published a request to solicit written input from the public, through June 11, on what ...
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A bipartisan U.S. Senate bill would create a government-wide approach to monitoring, tracking and strengthening U.S. supply chains.The Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act, introduced by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a ...
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