Gary G Burrows
American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 5.7% in August, following a 2.1% decline during July. In August, the index equaled 141.8 (2000=100), up from 134.2 in July. The all-time high was 144 in February.
Compared with August 2015, the SA index rose 5.9%, the largest year-over-year gain since May also 5.9%. In July, the year-over-year increase was 0.2%. Year-to-date, compared with the same period ...
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Georgia Ports Authority has a new strategic initiative that officials there see as a game changer. It involves rail and is dubbed “GPA’s Mid-American Arc.”
The rail initiative was detailed by GPA Executive Director Griff Lynch during the annual Savannah State of the Port address that included Floor & Decor's ...
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Middle Harbor at the Port of Long Beach. August exports surged 14.8% through the Port of Long Beach compared to the same month in 2015, but lower imports drove overall volumes down.
Harbor terminals moved 641,029 twenty-foot equivalent units in August, an 8.9% year-over-year decrease. Of those, 321,625 TEUs were import ...
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The Port Corpus Christi Commissioners adopted a Resolution Approving a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District (COE) on September 20 for work provided or performed prior to execution of a project partnership agreement for the Corpus Christi Ship Channel - Channel Improvement Project ...
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Foreign Trade Zone No. 62 at the Port of Brownsville ranks second in the nation for the value of exports (shipments to foreign countries) during 2015 according to the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board’s annual report to Congress released Thursday, September 15, 2016.
Dorchester County, South Carolina, and Broward County, Florida, ...
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The three month trial is over and night gates are here to stay at the Port of Oakland’s busiest marine terminal. Port of Oakland officials say that Oakland International Container Terminal will make evening operations permanent following a successful three-month trial.
The decision makes Oakland one of the few U.S. ...
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Troy Container Line, one of the world’s largest American-owned NVOCCs, recently announced a new direct import service which provides accelerated transits between Hamburg to Chicago. Building upon a strong foundation in the Midwest marketplace, this new service gives customers a fast, reliable, direct route to Chicagoland in addition to destinations ...
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Emirates SkyPharma, Emirates SkyCargo’s new purpose-built facility dedicated exclusively to the timely and secure transport of temperature sensitive pharmaceutical shipments at Dubai International Airport (DXB) was officially inaugurated today by His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline and Group.
His Excellency Abdul Rahman ...
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Executives at the Georgia Ports Authority Lynch report that GPA achieved an August record of 330,846 TEU, a robust increase of 5% compared to August 2015.
"August container unit volumes were the third highest in the Authority's history, behind April and May 2015 at the height of diverted cargo from the ...
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South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) reports its strongest August container volumes on record.
SCPA handled 180,153 TEUs in August, a year-over-year increase of 5.6%. Previously, SCPA's strongest August on record was 170,528 TEUs handled in 2015. With 357,420 TEUs moved during the first two months of the 2017 fiscal year, the ...
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