It must have been music to the ears of economic development and airport folks in the Greensboro-High Point area of North Carolina.

On a steady course of success at the South Carolina Ports Authority helm, James I. “Jim” Newsome III is getting plenty of support for realizing the agency’s vision of the Port of Charleston as the nation’s preferred containerport.

In an interview with AJOT, LaBar said that the full impact of AB-5 on trucking in California cannot be fully known at this time due to several factors

In an interview with AJOT at the IANA Intermodal Conference in Long Beach CA, Jim Filter, Schneider’s SVP of Intermodal Services outlined Schneider’s operational and network expansion priorities in light of some current industry issues affecting drayage and intermodal rail.

Panelists at the Intermodal Association of North American (IANA) Expo in Long Beach, said they see a slowdown in trucking and intermodal freight transportation in 2019, but they do not forecast a recession.

Most importers have had at least one CF-28 or CF-29 scare. Companies that haven’t most likely will at some point, as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) cracks down on import compliance. Most importers recognize these notices are possible, especially as the current trade climate heightens the scrutiny of import paperwork. Even so, these same companies may be shocked—and scared—when they receive a CF-28 or CF-29 notice.

Already boasting North America’s largest single container terminal, and with its Savannah containerport capacity set to double, the Port of Savannah is poised to also soon offer the continent’s busiest on-dock rail facility – and that gets Griff Lynch, executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority, unabashedly stoked.

U.S. Coast Guard Captain Marie Byrd told attendees at the Propeller Club of Northern California on September 10th that vulnerabilities of bridges and refineries continue to be a focus of emergency response plans seeking to protect the Marine Transportation System.

The container terminal operator and logistics provider Contship Italia, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, recently took its market proposition message to the North American shipper, 3PL and carrier audiences in the New York, Houston, and Los Angeles markets.

Twelve year congressional delay funding upper Mississippi lock and dam project hurts U.S. farm exports & aids U.S. competitors