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Associate Editor – Covering the shipping industry for over 30 years, Bill is one of the foremost experts in the transportation and trade, specializing in the Trans-Pacific trade lanes. When Bill speaks at our TPM Conference or other industry event, the industry listens, because of his deep knowledge of this most important region for trade.
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Feb 29, 2012 6:48PM GMTOne question above all will be in the minds of shippers and carriers attending the Journal of Commerce’s annual Trans-Pacific Maritime conference in Long Beach next week: Can the industry end three years of volatility and attain a measure of stability in the Asia-U.S. trade lane? David...
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Feb 28, 2012 3:22PM GMTThe SA Recycling terminal at the Port of Los Angeles is helping the country to meet President Obama’s goal of doubling U.S. exports within five years. It is also a facility that makes dreams come true. SA Recycling on Monday celebrated its 50th anniversary. The company operates 50 facilities...
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Feb 24, 2012 8:01PM GMTThe goods movement industry in recent years has made significant strides in reducing air pollution, but the major trade gateways must continue to innovate until they approach zero emissions, said a top Environment Protection Agency official. “The approach to growth must be with near-zero and...
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Feb 24, 2012 3:05PM GMTFor many shipping lines, reducing diesel and carbon emissions is now as much a part of the industry’s culture as is reducing the cost of carrying cargo. In fact, the two go hand-in-hand. “Sustainability is now a mega-trend,” Lee Kindberg, director of environment and sustainability...
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Feb 23, 2012 3:44PM GMTAs waterfront land available for terminal development becomes scarcer and costlier, U.S. ports are beginning to resemble high-productivity ports in Asia and Europe. Achieving greater throughput per acre is now the goal of terminal operators in high-volume ports. Until recently, marine terminal...
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Feb 3, 2012 1:45PM GMTThe freight transportation industry in California continues to develop technology that cuts diesel emissions and greenhouse gases, and harbor trucking is considering zero-emission vehicle usage. The Clean Air Action Plan at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has reduced total emissions from...
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Feb 2, 2012 3:22PM GMTBig-box retailers looking to keep a lid on inventory and related costs will increasingly turn to transloading near major seaports. That’s the message from Robert Leachman, a professor of industrial engineering and operations research who analyzes supply chain logistics. In a presentation to...
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Jan 5, 2012 8:24PM GMTThe International Longshore and Warehouse Union is preparing to protest the hiring of non-ILWU labor at the soon-to-be-opened EGT export grain terminal in Longview, Wash., although its response will most likely be more measured than the job actions it took last year. Last summer the ILWU pounded...
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Dec 12, 2011 9:03PM GMTThe Teamsters union played no active role in organizing the Occupy movements that attempted to shut down West Coast ports on Monday, but the union has certainly been capitalizing on what it views as a perfect opportunity for focusing attention on conditions experienced by some drivers. In an...
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Dec 12, 2011 8:13PM GMTNorthern California motor carrier Devine Intermodal couldn’t send any truckers to the Port of Oakland Monday because the Occupy demonstrations at the port, so the company decided it could at least feed the drivers. “We cannot afford to send trucks in hope that things will flow. Instead...
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Nov 30, 2011 6:07PM GMTImporters and exporters are getting nervous as momentum builds for a Dec. 12 shutdown of West Coast ports by the Occupy movement. West Coast ports handle more than 50 percent of the U.S. containerized trade, including 70 percent of U.S. imports from Asia. Shippers who lived through the 2002...
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Oct 14, 2011 3:14PM GMTThe ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are spending so much money these days to build larger container terminals, on-dock rail facilities and a new bridge in the harbor area that the transportation community seems to have forgotten about a project outside the port gates that could be just as...
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