This week in Borderlands: Shifting supply chains boost trade in California-Baja mega-region; Union Pacific opens expanded Phoenix intermodal terminal; Radiant Logistics expands air cargo operations in Texas; and avocado workers in Mexico file labor complaints.
BNSF is planning to invest more than $1.5 billion to develop a Southern California facility aimed at easing congestion at the West Coast ports.
BNSF’s brief embargo aims to reduce Southern California network congestion, which the railway partly blamed on bad weather.
A compilation of the past week in social media images includes a Midwest blizzard, a Plains dust storm and a California brush fire.
Potential record highs continue Super Bowl weekend from Los Angeles, the host city, to San Diego (video forecast included).
An unusual winter heat wave will hit truckers in Southern California the rest of the week (video forecast included).
Frustrated with load-board scammers, one broker is warning others to do their due diligence as the list of suspect companies has grown to nearly 500.
Three investigators will try to determine what caused the death of a BNSF worker on Wednesday at a rail yard near Los Angeles.
“Not only are we at the height of the Christmas season, but we’re at the height of the Y2K concern as well. Importers and major trading houses are trying to move their goods now to beat any chance of problems with the changeover to the new millennium.”
With airfreight capacity squeezed and rates high between China and the U.S., ocean freight consolidators offer the option of fast, cheaper less-than-container load, trans-Pacific services.
Southern California heat wave will keep reefer drivers on their toes this weekend.
Andy Peters provides information about the real estate marketing in the warehouse/distribution center sector.
Owners of industrial real estate expect gains in 2019 but not to the extent that had been once forecast, a survey found.
