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Pilot project aims to open more trucker slots in Los Angeles-Long Beach
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The Harbor Trucking Association is teaming with Yusen Terminals in Los Angeles to increase the number of appointment slots each day by cutting the container receiving window from two hours to 90 minutes.
North American ports
Marine terminals
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Rail News
Revamped Southeast chassis pool to charge ‘penalty fee’ to unregistered users
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
Consolidated Chassis Management is asking cargo owners to encourage their trucking partners to sign up for the South Atlantic Chassis Pool (SACP) 3.0 before it launches in October.
Drayage
Chassis maker CIE halts US equipment imports
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
CIE Manufacturing, a major manufacturer of new chassis, has suspended all imports of chassis into the US in response to an investigation by US customs officials.
Drayage
North American ports
C&K Trucking expands to Columbus and Kansas City, with more to come
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
The major eastern US drayage provider is looking to expand its footprint to California and the Pacific Northwest before the end of the year, markets where its major competitors already operate.
Drayage
Chassis providers rehabbing fleets as costs for new units remain elevated
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
With demand in ports and rail hubs weak, chassis providers are turning their attention to refurbishing older, less-reliable units, a process that is expected to take years to complete.
Drayage
US chassis lessors learning from pandemic surge as demand wanes
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
With international rail volume down by double-digit percentages in 2023, chassis providers have an opportunity to reflect on the struggles of 2021 and 2022 and adjust their networks ahead of the next surge.
Drayage
First new chassis arrive for new South Atlantic pool
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
The first chassis for a new equipment pool covering the ports of Jacksonville, Savannah, and Wilmington, NC, arrived this week, the first step ahead of an October launch.
Drayage
North American ports
CBP rules US chassis manufacturer evaded tariffs on China-sourced parts
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
The ruling could place an additional burden on US chassis manufacturers to ensure their subcontractors are using US materials or paying duties on parts from China.
Drayage
Shippers, regulators muddle through ‘grey area’ of rail storage fees
Mark Szakonyi, Executive Editor |
Shippers want Congress to address their inability to challenge rail demurrage fees when they contract for merchant haulage, but finding a solution will be tricky, writes Journal of Commerce Executive Editor Mark Szakonyi.
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Geodis acquires South Florida-based drayage carrier
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
Geodis has acquired Southern Companies, a South Florida-based container drayage provider, the latest in a series of trucking and warehousing acquisitions in the US over the last two months.
Drayage
NY-NJ port stakeholders improve trucker experience as downturn cuts work
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
The influx of new drivers to the New York-New Jersey port helped it handle record volumes in 2022, but the downturn means less work and possibly more turnover.
Drayage
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North American ports
Drayage rates fall sharply amid downturn in NY-NJ port volumes
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
New York-New Jersey port truckers who worked five days per week last year are now down to about half that amount, sending spot drayage rates well below levels seen in 2021 and 2022.
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NFI, RoadOne expand networks with acquisitions in Canada, US
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Transportation and logistics companies continue to grow by acquiring competitors, and although the wave of acquisitions may have crested there is still plenty of opportunity in a soft market.
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IEPs file brief siding with ocean carriers in FMC chassis dispute
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
The independent equipment providers say upending the current business model would create additional chassis shortages and invoicing problems that would inconvenience cargo owners.
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Drayage tech provider PortPro targeting shippers with new tracking tools
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Drayage software vendor PortPro is attempting to narrow the gap between the tools that port truckers and their shipper customers use with a new container milestone tracking product it has launched.
Logistics Technology News
North American ports
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Maersk shifts detention billing to consignees ahead of FMC regulation
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The move by the carrier comes as the FMC is in the midst of a rulemaking process around detention and demurrage billing mandated by the passage of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 last June.
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US startup eyes street turn tech expansion throughout North America
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Technology startup Qualle is trying to overcome drayage industry inertia around matching empty import boxes with export loads outside of ports by using early-stage funding to serve every North American port market.
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FMC judge ruling on chassis will have major impact, but questions linger
Ari Ashe, Senior Editor |
A decision by an FMC administrative judge on chassis usage will shake up the way chassis are provisioned for ocean containers, but there are several unknowns on what the future will look like at ports and rail hubs.
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Spot truckload rates rising at US East Coast ports, falling on West Coast
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Analysts have told the Journal of Commerce they expect spot market pricing to bottom out and remain flat for some time before rising again, most likely at a slow pace.
Surface
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Truckload
FMC administrative judge rules in truckers’ favor in chassis dispute
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Ocean carriers cannot limit the use of chassis by motor carriers in merchant haulage, the FMC’s chief administrative judge said in an “initial” summary decision meant to resolve a long-running dispute.
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Investors fuel drayage software provider PortPro with $12 million in funding
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Investors see drayage as an area rife for technological improvement, with software provider PortPro the latest startup to secure funding to empower port truckers.
Logistics Technology News
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Drayage
Trucking News
WiseTech makes US drayage play with acquisition of Envase
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
WiseTech Global, owner of the most widely used forwarding software product, has acquired a prominent vendor of drayage management software, capping a year of takeovers for the company.
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RoadOne looks to tap Houston freight growth with deal for Texas drayage carrier
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
The sharp increase in freight activity seen at the Port of Houston over the past year has prompted national drayage provider RoadOne IntermodaLogistics to acquire a Texas motor carrier.
Drayage
North American ports
Trucking News
Truckload
Proposed federal rule threatens independent contractor model in trucking: opponents
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
A new rule proposed by the US Department of Labor could signal the beginning of the end of the independent contractor model in port drayage and other trucking sectors, opponents say.
Drayage
Trucking labor
Charleston’s growth drives private equity acquisition of drayage carrier
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
Population and economic growth in the US Southeast and the impact on growth at the Port of Charleston has prompted a private equity firm to buy a regional drayage and warehousing firm.
North American ports
Drayage
Falling imports mute capacity impact of California’s new clean-fleet drayage rule
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Although truckers at California’s ports must comply with a new clean-fleet rule and enforcement of the AB5 worker classification law, declining cargo volumes should prevent a drayage capacity shortage.
North American ports
Drayage
Hapag-Lloyd hit with FMC rail demurrage complaint
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
The filing is just the latest in a barrage of complaints made against various container lines with the FMC in recent months, a flurry accelerated by major reform of US shipping law that went into effect in June.
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M&A in US trucking, logistics cross ‘asset lines’
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
US transportation companies with cash on hand are acquiring asset-based truckers and non-asset freight brokers alike to add services and shipper customers and build network density.
Truckload
Drayage
Truck brokers
RoadOne acquires Texas drayage provider
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The latest acquisition by RoadOne strengthens its national intermodal drayage fleet, connecting customers and containerized freight from the Northeast to the US Gulf Coast.
Drayage
NY-NJ port truckers tepid on Saturday terminal gates
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
NY-NJ marine terminals have been almost constantly offering Saturday gates over the last two years to help move import volumes, but those gates have accounted for only about 5 percent of total truck transactions.
North American ports
Drayage
RoadOne adds to transload footprint in Oakland, Norfolk
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
RoadOne sees demand for transload services as being sustainable enough to outlast any economic downturn as it invests in facilities in Norfolk and Oakland.
Rail News
Drayage
Trucking News
New clean truck rule puts California dray capacity on chopping block
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
As a new clean truck rule in California looms, replacing older trucks with compliant vehicles is becoming increasingly difficult — and costly — amid shortages of microchips and other parts.
Drayage
LA-LB truckers add to push for FMC action on empty box returns
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
The Harbor Trucking Association says it will provide evidence to the FMC about the burdens that West Coast drayage carriers face in returning empties to Los Angeles–Long Beach marine terminals.
North American ports
Drayage
NY-NJ port to impose dwell fee targeting empty containers
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it will start charging an export container dwell fee in a bid to prod ocean carriers to remove more containers than they drop off.
North American ports
Drayage
US truckers flip back into drayage as long-haul spot rates dive
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
Drivers are returning to port drayage as long-haul trucking rates slide and operating costs for small, independent motor carriers rise.
Drayage
Brokerage model offers post-AB5 path in California
Peter Tirschwell |
Some California trucking companies have already taken the brokerage plunge, enabling them to contract at arm’s length with independent truckers who have set themselves up as single-truck carriers.
Drayage
Delays rise at Ontario rail ramps amid surge in Vancouver volumes
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
Canada’s Class I railroads have been dealing with a surge of freight from Vancouver that has taxed a shrinking pool of available truckers across the country in Ontario.
North-American rail
Drayage
New KlearNow product ties customs to drayage network
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
Customs software provider KlearNow has added a drayage service to its product in order to sync cargo availability to capacity from its network of dray providers.
Logistics Technology News
Drayage
Freight shuttle developer eyes Houston port for first roll-out
Michael Angell, Associate Editor |
Amid supply chain gridlock throughout the US, the Port of Houston has signed an agreement to investigate the potential use of an electric rail shuttle system for inland container movement.
North American ports
Drayage
Wan Hai pays $850,000 fine to settle FMC detention case
Eric Johnson, Senior Technology Editor |
For the second time in two weeks, a container line has been assessed a US civil penalty for collecting detention fees last year when it allegedly did not provide drayage providers with a means to return empty containers.
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