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Gary G Burrows

Port of LA cargo volumes remains soft

Cargo volume at the Port of Los Angeles dropped in October as the Port handled 678,429 TEUs, a 25% decrease from October 2021. The Port of Los Angeles has processed 8,542,944 TEUs during the first 10 months of 2022, about 6% down from last year’s record pace.“With cargo owners bringing goods in early this year, our peak season was in June and July instead of September and October,” Port of ... [+]

SC Ports remains fluid while handling record volumes in October

South Carolina Ports handled a record number of containers in October, marking its third busiest month in port history.SC Ports reported 9% container growth year-over-year as 256,879 TEUs moved through Wando Welch Terminal, North Charleston Terminal and Hugh K. Leatherman Terminal in October. When accounting for boxes of any size, ... [+]

Shake it Up

Freight shippers are struggling to recruit and retain drivers, and it gets worse every year. The industry has moved the needle slightly by increasing driver pay, and some states have lowered the age requirement for interstate drivers from 21 to 18. But this isn't nearly enough to substantively address a ... [+]

Asyad Shipping expands service footprint to Singapore

Asyad Shipping has opened the company's first international office in Singapore as part of its ambitious growth plans to expand the business portfolio into the Asian market. The new office will act as a platform for Asyad Shipping to serve the increasing demand from current and potential customers in that ... [+]

Atlas Air Takes Delivery of First of Four New Boeing 777-200

Atlas Air, Inc. announced it has taken delivery of a Boeing 777-200 Freighter, which it will operate on behalf of its customer MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA, as part of a previously announced long-term ACMI agreement.The 777-200 Freighter will complement MSC's world-class container shipping solutions and expand service to key ... [+]

Circle Logistics Leads Industry By Tracking Over 90% of Its Loads

Circle Logistics announced that its integration with transportation management software (TMS) Transport Pro has resulted in the live-tracking of more than 90% of all loads booked.Circle's use of auto-arrive and auto-depart dispatch geofence notifications and other technology is proving to be a gamechanger for the growing company that is currently ... [+]

CMA CGM to acquire terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey

The CMA CGM Group has signed a binding agreement to acquire GCT Bayonne and New York terminals, currently held by Global Container Terminals Inc (GCT).The Port of New York and New Jersey is a key entry point serving the Northeastern U.S. supply chain areas and represents CMA CGM’s largest gateway ... [+]

Convoy, J.B. Hunt and Uber Freight Join Forces

Convoy, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., and Uber Freight announced the formation of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC), which aims to solve transportation scheduling challenges by establishing the freight industry's first formal set of appointment scheduling application programming interface (API) standards. Complex, pervasive, industry-wide challenges such as this require collaborative, industry-wide ... [+]

Port Everglades celebrates second highest year for container volumes

Port Everglades fell one day short of beating its own annual record for containerized cargo volumes in FY 2022 (ending Sept. 30, 2022). The ships that would have taken Port Everglades over the top were delayed when the port closed to prepare for Hurricane Ian in late September. Those delayed ... [+]

Port Newark Container Terminal Commits to Propane

Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) announces the commitment of Port Newark Container Terminal (PNCT) to reduce emissions by using propane equipment at its location in Newark, New Jersey. After seeing initial success with a prototype propane-powered port tractor, PNCT has decided to move ahead with replacing its entire diesel-powered port ... [+]

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