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CN launches new medium horsepower hybrid locomotive pilot project

AJOT | January 16, 2025 | Green Shipping | Intermodal | Rail

AI tackling ship safety management challenges

AJOT | January 16, 2025 | Maritime | Technology

The maritime industry is undergoing a digital transformation, and one of the key innovations making waves is the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into safety management systems.

PSA International’s 2024 container throughput performance

AJOT | January 16, 2025 | Ports & Terminals | Terminals

Tanker seized by Finland over ripped cables won’t face cargo sanctions probe

Reuters | January 16, 2025 | Maritime | Bulk

Tanker under US sanctions discharges oil at Chinese port, LSEG data shows

Reuters | January 16, 2025 | Energy | Maritime | Bulk

Bezos’ Blue Origin reaches orbit in first New Glenn launch, misses booster landing

Reuters | January 16, 2025 | Air Cargo | Technology

Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida early Thursday morning on its first mission to space, an inaugural step into Earth's orbit for Jeff Bezos' space company as it aims to rival SpaceX in the satellite launch business.

EU not ready to enforce pollution rules, airlines say

Reuters | January 16, 2025 | Air Cargo | Airlines | Green Shipping

Airlines have warned the European Union they cannot yet comply with pollution rules that came into force this month, because the EU has not yet launched its promised system to administer them, a document seen by Reuters showed.

Ports & Terminals

AJOT | Top Story | January 16, 2025

deugro USA expands by opening a second warehouse facility

deugro (USA), Inc. has expanded its warehouse and laydown space footprint in Houston, Texas by adding a second facility at Cedar Port Industrial Park in Baytown, Texas.

Blue Water enables dedicated CO2 carrier solution between Royal Wagenborg and INEOS for Greensand Future project

A collaboration for Europe’s first operational CO2 storage facility by a purpose-modified CO2 carrier for INEOS-led Carbon Capture and Stor-age project

US imposing new export controls on biotech equipment over China concerns

Reuters | January 15, 2025 | International Trade

The U.S. Commerce Department said Wednesday it is imposing new export controls on biotechnology equipment and related technology because of national security concerns tied to artificial intelligence and data science.

US blacklists company that ordered TSMC chip found in Huawei processor

Reuters | January 15, 2025 | International Trade

President Joe Biden's administration added more than two dozen Chinese entities to its restricted trade list on Wednesday, including a company whose TSMC-made chip was illegally incorporated into a Huawei artificial intelligence processor.

US importers rush in goods from China as Trump tariff threat looms

Reuters | January 15, 2025 | International Trade

U.S. imports from China finished the year strong after some companies stockpiled shipments of apparel, toys, furniture and electronics ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's plan to impose new tariffs that could revive a trade war between the world's economic superpowers.

Transportation Producer Price Index – December 2024

Today, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) released the change in the costs faced by producers purchasing transportation services and industries producing them, from December 2023 to December 2024, as measured by the Producer Price Index (PPI).

California utility faces billions in claims for fire damage even if it did nothing wrong

Reuters | January 15, 2025 | Energy

Victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, likely the costliest in U.S. history, are seizing upon a unique California legal doctrine that allows them to collect from their power utility if its equipment caused the blaze -- even if the company did nothing wrong.

Colonial Pipeline’s main U.S. gasoline artery likely shut until Friday

Reuters | January 15, 2025 | Energy

Colonial Pipeline's main U.S. gasoline artery is expected to be shut through Friday as the company continues to search for the source of a suspected leak in Paulding County, Georgia, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.

The eighth U.S. liquefied natural gas export terminal, Plaquemines LNG, ships first cargo

AJOT | January 15, 2025 | Energy | Ports & Terminals | Terminals

On December 26, 2024, Plaquemines LNG—the eighth liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in the United States—shipped its first cargo after achieving first LNG production in mid-December.

Drewry Intra-Asia Container Index - 15 Jan

AJOT | January 15, 2025 | Maritime | Liner Shipping

Drewry’s Intra-Asia Container Index (IACI), a weighted average of regional spot container freight rates, fell 6% in the fortnight to 15 Jan 25 to $828 per 40ft container.

Trump nominee says Boeing needs ‘tough love,’ EVs should pay for road use

Reuters | January 15, 2025 | Air Cargo | Airlines | Trucking

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to head the U.S. Transportation Department said Boeing needs "tough love" to get back on track after a 2024 mid-air emergency and that electric vehicles should pay to use roads.

EU to order Lufthansa to restore Condor’s access to its short-haul network

Reuters | January 15, 2025 | Air Cargo | Airlines

The European Commission told Lufthansa on Wednesday it would order the German flag carrier to reinstate charter airline Condor's access to Lufthansa's short-haul network to feed Condor's Frankfurt-New York route.

Brazilian meatpacker JBS says net-zero emissions pledge was ‘never a promise’

Reuters | January 15, 2025 | International Trade

The world's largest meatpacker, JBS, became in 2021 the first of its peers to commit to cutting or offsetting all its emissions by 2040, and to ending illegal deforestation across its long supply chain that starts in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

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