Canada is adopting “strict” environmental standards to reduce emissions from ships navigating in Canadian waters...
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23 Apr 2013
Spurred by new, heightened concern about extreme weather events, discussion groups such as the World Economic Forum and the Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals have intensified their efforts to create comprehensive frameworks and common standards for evaluating and enacting risk-mitigation initiatives that are proactive and strategic, rather than reactive or tactical.
16 Apr 2013
The nation's largest port and largest trucking lobby group clashed in the nation's highest court over a drayage program Los Angeles calls a commercial agreement and the American Trucking Associations an illegal regulation.
10 Apr 2013
The Port of Seattle and its container terminal operating tenants have launched a radio frequency identification tag program in support of the port’s Clean Truck Initiative.
10 Apr 2013
OOCL has ordered 72 battery-powered Terex Gottwald automated guided vehicles, as well as fleet management software and a battery-changing station for the AGVs from Terex Port Solutions.
10 Apr 2013
The Canadian Shipowners Association has expressed concern regarding a permit published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying that it could threaten the commercial viability of...
09 Apr 2013
Newer engines and cleaner fuels have helped reduce total pollutants from port equipment and trucks, according to an air emissions inventory commissioned by the South Carolina Ports Authority.
05 Apr 2013
The Port of Seattle has joined Green Marine, a voluntary environmental program for the maritime industry in North America.
03 Apr 2013
Ocean Spray Cranberries reduced its carbon dioxide emissions along with transportation costs through a pair of supply chain changes to Florida, a company official told a trade and transportation conference.
02 Apr 2013
The South Carolina Ports Authority and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control have extended their air quality partnership through 2018.
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