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

With container volumes rising in recent years and potential capacity problems on the horizon, the Port of Montreal is counting on a planned new terminal at Contrecoeur, 25 miles downstream on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, to meet future demands.

The U.S. Coast Guard warned of a “significant cyber incident” on one ship that “exposes potential vulnerabilities on board commercial vessels” and reported on a second incident in which “unknown interference” impacted a U.S. flag vessel. Both incidents occurred in 2019

Dave Kaval, president of the Oakland Athletics, wants a “partnership” with the Port of Oakland maritime industry so as to build the new A’s ballpark and “preserve and protect jobs on the waterfront.”

Maritime commerce along the Mississippi River is slowly recovering after 2019 rains and floods disrupted port operations, shipping, tug and barge services, roads and farming, but the region cannot fully recover without a dramatic increase in federal spending for expanded levels of flood control that must be made along with federal spending for other long-neglected infrastructure investments, according to Sean Duffy, executive director of the Louisiana-based Big River Coalition.