There’s plenty of speculation about how the proposed liability insurance increase would affect small owner-operators, but one thing’s for sure: The camps for and against the increase are highly polarized.
A federally sponsored infrastructure initiative for major regional ports to be linchpins of a national port strategy would be a first step in upgrading the U.S. in terms of competitiveness in productivity and ability to serve this and future generations of vessels.
One thing’s for sure if you’ve been involved with international trade in recent times: Things are getting ever more complicated and risk management and compliance challenges are consistently getting harder to anticipate and manage.
The impact of the $75,000 bond on smaller motor carrier brokers has been immense, a reader says, and many have been forced out of the industry by the cost involved. Is the brokerage industry simply stuck with this “unreasonable requirement?”
With the expanded Panama Canal set to open in a year and shippers frustrated with West Coast delays, Florida is pitching itself as an international container import gateway. But the Sunshine State faces fierce competition from Southeast rivals.
When BNSF Railway ceased intermodal service at its Fresno, California, ramp in December, the change neatly encapsulated many of the North American intermodal industry’s challenges.
A customs broker issues delivery orders for shipments in which it isn’t involved in the final delivery arrangements. How can the broker protect himself from any potential lawsuit from a carrier if freight charges are not paid?
There are plenty of factors that contribute to tightening truck capacity and rising transportation costs, but one of the most overlooked is the lack of adequate truck parking. Shippers need to be part of the solution.
Mexico’s low wages, free-trade savvy, and infrastructure and logistics upgrades have been well-documented in JOC coverage over the past decade. What we haven’t documented until now is how the United States’ NAFTA partner has transformed from a backwater country known for its poverty, corruption, drug cartels and tourist attractions into the world’s seventh-largest auto producer, the second-largest U.S. auto supplier, and a rapidly growing manufacturing center for white goods and aerospace products.
The last two surface transportation authorization laws, President Obama’s recent surface transportation proposal and other plans to use one-time revenues to prop up the Highway Trust Fund have one thing in common: They all left or would leave the HTF in worse financial health after the bill expires than it was in before the bill was enacted.
The nine months of negotiations between the Pacific Maritime Association and International Longshore and Warehouse Union and concomitant congestion leading to so much misery for so many cargo interests and logistics service providers made the 2015 TPM Conference a highly anticipated event.
Intermodal service is sliding back downhill, and things could get worse if federal regulators slow down crude oil trains, a move that would take velocity out of the entire network.
Are you ready for trucking's new liability limits?
Want to fix the mess? Start with a national port strategy
Time to solve NY-NJ’s port crisis
From hacking to dirty money, it's a minefield out there
Increased bond won’t break brokers
Florida at bat
Intermodal's challenges as seen through a Fresno farewell
How to avoid being an agent of misfortune
Truck parking: Open the gates
Made in Mexico
Who will pay for port productivity?
Fixing transportation funding: Be like Ike
TPM takeaways
A crude warning on rail service