US manufacturers that focus on protecting their production, supply chain operations, profit and loss, and customer experience are looking for alternative approaches to traditional truck and rail transportation to remove risk as well as cost. For example, paper manufacturers in Wisconsin are asking international suppliers to export raw materials to ports such as Green Bay that are in close proximity to their plants because tight transportation capacity and labor shortages are leading to breaks in production and inconsistent product flows to customers. <h2>US surface transport to remain tight</h2> We are in a <a>“carrier economy”</a> and it’s predicted by industry analysts,...

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The South Coast Air Quality Management District says it will create rules to reduce emissions at Southern California rail yards because Union Pacific insists on including public financing as a precondition for participating in the more collaborative MOU process.

The spending program will target the company’s logistics and services arm with a “substantial amount of investment” earmarked for its ocean and terminals infrastructure in the region.

The IMO’s global market-based emissions-cutting measure will be introduced in 2027 when it will clash with Europe’s ETS and could force shippers to comply —  and pay for —  two CO2-reducing systems at the same time, classification societies believe.

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