The Panama Canal Authority scheduled further efforts designed to increase capacity and reduce some of the restrictions that had been impacting transits for a year at the waterway. The latest steps in addition to increasing capacity also address the concerns of larger containerships and LNG carriers.
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ntermodal shippers in the US saved almost 26% under annual contracts in the first quarter compared with trucking, according to the latest Journal of Commerce Intermodal Savings Index (ISI), up one-tenth of a percentage point year over year, but down one percentage point from the fourth quarter. Domestic intermodal
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Seaports across the US will split $148 million in federal funds to reduce pollution from trucks using an array of methods that include electric and alternative fuel trucks, better diesel engines, and more efficient terminal gates. The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration this week ann
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A salvage firm that helped contain the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and safely blow up part of New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge is heading to Baltimore as a first step to what will likely become a more than $2 billion rebuilding project. Resolve Marine has started mobilizing resources to re-float and remove the ship th
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Members of the Ocean Alliance — CMA CGM, Cosco Shipping, Evergreen and OOCL — said Friday they have renewed their partnership for another five years, a move that maintains the status quo for the four carriers amid recent alliance restructuring that has roiled the container shipping sector.
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Intermodal shippers have another option to send cargo between Mexico and the US using domestic containers through brokers. Run Rail, a wholesaler with 650 containers working with non-asset intermodal marketing companies (IMCs), has begun to offer service in Mexico through Ferromex and BNSF Railway. Chris Joslyn, Ru
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