Infrastructure

Trump and Republicans at odds over using pandemic as bridge to transportation funding.

“We expect that more shippers will shift from just-in-time supply chains to just-in-case supply chains,” U.S. CEO Mark McCullough said.

Final steel floor beam lifted into place two years after assembly of main span got underway.

Radio frequency identification has matured in terms of its cost effectiveness and efficiency over the past decade, the company says.

“Revenues plummeting” with less vehicle traffic, say government officials.

The Supply Chain Intelligence Center pinpoints trouble spots on the nation’s highways and ports to U.S. humanitarian relief providers responding to the health crisis.

Lobby group puts tab for restoring 231,000 U.S. bridges at $164 billion.

Drone use for package deliveries is expected to remain largely grounded by regulatory and infrastructural hurdles during the next few years, according to Frost and Sullivan.

The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission said there has been no shortage of container-shipping industry members willing to participate in its initiative to identify ways to overcome supply chain obstacles caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Commissioner Rebecca Dye will lead the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission effort with industry to identify “operational solutions to cargo delivery challenges” caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Congress expected to approve package that could help avoid permanent shutdowns

International Maritime Organization secretary-general stresses that world trade during the coronavirus pandemic depends on the mariners who move goods.

Likelihood of economic recession could set stage for reauthorization in September.

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency issues guidance on critical industries as millions of Americans ordered to stay home.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces Rick Cotton is under quarantine and some port authority staffers will be tested.

The trade war between the U.S. and China caused companies to adapt supply chains and the transportation of their products. Darren Prokop writes about those changes and their impacts.

ATRI’s annual study finds significant congestion up 92% in five years.

Response to DOT’s national freight strategy proposal reveals top concerns.

Executive order establishes national policy to safeguard positioning and navigation services.

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

Proposal includes discretionary grants for truck parking.

Raising tax by 15 cents a gallon is needed before transitioning to mileage-based fee, according to lobbying group.

Blasting out underwater “speedbumps” last hurdle for $485 million project.

Funding likely to remain elusive for proposal that focuses on zero-carbon initiatives.

Presidential candidate’s Clean Transportation Plan calls for 15% of new trucks to be pollution-free by 2030.

Buttigieg proposal part of candidate’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan.

Road, rail, port environmental permits to be completed in two years.

With Christmas 2019 just celebrated, here is an only-in-Alaska tale of goodies from the sky. While the logistics involved are nowhere near as flawless as Santa Claus’ annual air courier […]

CMA CGM has finalized agreement to sell 10 terminals to Terminal Link.

Global shipping giant Maersk has opened its latest logistics and distribution center to cope with growing domestic demand in Vietnam.

Railroad market voice Jim Blaze writes about technological advances that are making railroads’ capital expenditures on infrastructure more efficient.

How to best serve largest U.S. consumer market in dense, high-cost region is question for logistics industry.

Manufacturers also call for the rapid roll-out of dedicated charging and refueling infrastructure to help reduce the share of trucks running on diesel.

Port, engineering and property giant MMC shrugged off the trade war and economic headwinds to report massive increases in revenues and profits. Analysts issued a “buy” rating.

PierPass says long late-afternoon queues at the entrance to container terminals om Los Angeles and Long Beach have been eliminated.

The Port of Oakland is making improvements to both its roads and ship turning basins so that it can handle increased traffic.

The shift of production from China to southeast Asia is unlikely to stop the trans-Pacific container market from declining this year.

The Inter-American Committee on Ports leverages the combined influence of the national port authorities of its dozens of member nations to foster robust port development.

Trucking and trade bodies are outraged by the ongoing tactics of container terminal operators to frequently hike already huge fees on trucks. Lobbying of government ministers is underway and even port operators are disappointed at the ongoing tactics of terminal operators.

Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania had most to lose if funding had been slashed.

Saybrook Capital alleges that additional evidence shows how port and longshore union aimed to derail project.

Box-port operator Asian Terminals has seen a massive surge in nine-month revenues and profits but it has also witnessed a downturn in the third quarter of 2019.

The new center at Cologne-Bonn Airport will help meet rising demand for express e-commerce shipments.

Already the largest cold storage warehouse company, Lineage Logistics is reportedly buying Emergent Cold.

The new 40,000-square-meter center is the size of five football fields and has a sorting capacity of 50,000 shipments per hour.

Proposal is part of $1.3 trillion infrastructure plan

Boston’s freight move thru New York? No suh, because the Hub is best served by its own.

Brexit-driven scramble for supply chain properties continues as Tristan plans $165 million investment in Dutch logistics platform.

Trump administration divvies up 55 BUILD grants among 35 states

Growth from last year’s front loading makes for tough comps, as trade war upsets seasonal patterns.

Florida’s largest seaport will use federal funds as part of expansion of its largest marine terminal.

Ballot initiatives included a tax on ride-sharing companies in San Francisco.

Saudi Aramco, believed to be the world’s largest integrated oil and gas company, has announced it will undergo an IPO on the Saudi Arabian stock exchange.

Growing source of U.S. containerized goods imposes navigation restrictions due to sunken boxship.

Engines in Australian trucks may have been modified to allow them to break speed limits. Australian police have been reading premises across the country. In other Down Under News: APE eats up AHG; new boss for Orcoda; mobile phone driving surveillance laws; broken bridges; accident black spots; corporate debt.

Logistics in Alaska can be both amazing and frustrating. Alaska is the most expansive and diverse logistics laboratory in the United States. Take the largest state in the nation, yet […]

Off-site facility aims to give terminal more room to operate and make chassis moves more fluid.d

Industry veteran picked to head one of the largest U.S. East Coast terminals, which is undergoing upgrade.

Port of Oakland has seen an uptick in volumes this year and is optimistic about remainder of 2019.

Although Super Typhoon Hagibis has caused catastrophic floods, mudslides and at least 68 tragic deaths in Japan, FreightWaves understands from local sources that Tokyo’s critical freight infrastructure – seaports and airports – are undamaged. Japan’s wider logistics network is suffering from a miscellany of damage such as flooding.

Market Voice Darren Prokop writes about automation at ports and the progress – and disruption – that will bring.

Maersk subsidiary looks to fix congestion that had been widely cited in 2018 front-loading.

European logistics giant could bring its famed, eco-friendly distribution centers to North America as its global expansion continues

Körber Logistics, the investment and logistics arm of tech conglomerate Körber of Hamburg, Germany, has acquired a majority stake in the warehouse autonomous logistics robot installer and consultancy Cohesio.

New third-party logistics firm to take over yard and warehouse that handles ‘considerable’ freight.

The Motley Fool discovers last-mile logistics. IMO 2020 will impact logistics warehousing footprint, JLL says

The system of internal waterways vital to the nation’s shipment of agricultural commodities is rapidly diminishing in its capabilities to handle bulk shipping.

Ports, terminal operators and shipping lines are striving to improve the flow of information.

Executive director and governor report volume records and expansion opportunities.

The Port of Brunswick reopens to restricted traffic as the investigation into the capsizing of the car carrier continues.

Georgia Ports Authority touts record volumes and expansion projects during State of the Port event.

Freeport Harbor in the Bahamas is open following Hurricane Dorian, but initially is expected to handle self-geared ships.

Northeast Florida readies for Hurricane Dorian, Uber and Lyft offer free rides, Georgia ports remain closed and UPS issues pickup and delivery advisory.

Concerns about the port automation has sparked studies by the Port of Long Beach and other California agencies.

If theres going to be an exception for trucking, its going to be next year or through the courts.

A Chicago startup has proposed using crane rails to move containers in and out of terminals to ease congestion in the era of mega-ships.

New guidelines highlight vessel safety issues for project developers.

Former communications director will be the first female to lead the Washington state port.

Canada’s largest port saw increases in tonnage and containers during the first half of 2019, but individual cargo types painted a more complicated picture.

Manila, Philippines-based international container terminal operator, ICTSI (PSE: ICT) has reported a massive increase in profit and a substantial increase in revenues for the first half of 2019.

Barbara Spector Yeninas had the moxie to launch a business serving the male-dominated maritime industry 45 years ago. That determination has kept her going for more than four decades, although these days she’s wearing sneakers instead of stilettos.

Third busiest U.S. port prods carriers and owner-operators to use low- and zero-emissions trucks.

Trucks are omitted from a study analyzing congestion pricing options; YRC scraps satellite radio in cabs; FedEx drops Amazon in dollars-and-sense decision

China’s ports are the most connected ports in the whole world, mega-study reveals. Ports elsewhere in Asia flesh out the top twenty. U.S. ports don’t make an appearance until way down the list.

Gebrüder Weiss announced Aug. 8 that Heinz Senger-Weiss, managing director of the Air & Sea division, is resigning at the end of the year “for personal reasons” and that it […]

Jim Blaze writes about the recent history of intermodal rail service and what may happen in the next few years.

Cargo activity through the Jacksonville, Fla., seaport had a nearly $31.1 billion economic impact on the region and state in 2018.

Warehousing markets have just recovered from the last round of tariffs and there is not a lot of slack.

Ben Thrower examines the costs – in money, lost land and lost businesses – of the high-speed rail line in California.

The $320 million project will double the annual throughput of the Virginia International Gateway container terminal.

The new officers will begin their duties Aug. 12.

The San Francisco Conservation and Development Commission will use a new 199-page report to update its seaport plan.

TraPac says upgrades were needed to allow the Los Angeles terminal to handle 2.4 million TEUs by 2038.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau toured the Port of Montreal with European Council President Donald Tusk.

The $30 million Heartland Intermodal Gateway has generated little income.

To prepare for ultra-large containerships, the port revises the plan last updated in 1990.

While NWSA reported a record first half, June volumes were mixed — down for international containers but up for domestic traffic.

Dockworkers will be trained to repair automated cargo-handling equipment they argued would take their jobs.

Critics of the proposed location for an Oakland Athletics baseball stadium point to a study that says the Howard Terminal site will be needed for cargo.

Plastic waste originated in the U.S. and Canada, says the Ministry of Environment.