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CSX Corp. announced its latest group of high-ranking rail-served properties to receive CSX Select Site designation under the industrial development program.
Eighteen sites across 12 states have earned a gold, silver, or bronze rating based on an evaluation of a wide range of site characteristics.
CSX said it has worked with more than 29 communities to gather information and identify top candidates for the Select Site program, which connects expanding companies with ...
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Class-I railroad CSX Corp said April 30 it has secured ratification of new five-year collective bargaining agreements with the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, or BRS, and the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Forgers & Helpers, or IBB.
“Ratifying these agreements reflects the trust we’ve ...
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Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, the ocean freight cost benchmarking and procurement support division of Drewry Shipping Consultants, said it is significantly expanding lane coverage within its flagship spot market ocean freight rate benchmarking service, Container Freight Rate Insight, or CFRI.
The London-based maritime research and consultancy ...
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GEODIS said it has signed a cooperation agreement with DOLFINES to develop and market a port-based version of a high-capacity lifting device dedicated to floating offshore wind projects.
Through its subsidiary Sealogis, GEODIS will support DOLFINES – an engineering company specializing in energy industry solutions – ...
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Retail sales in March snapped a two-month series of declines, but those gains were moderate, as consumers continued to anguish over rising tariffs, according to the CNBC/NRF Retail Monitor, the National Retail Federation said April 14.
The improved spending “came before the president’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariff ...
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TT Club, the international freight transport insurer, is raising awareness the increasing prevalence of credit fraud over the last 12 months.
Fraudulent strategies can be extremely lucrative for international criminals and the global supply chain is typically low-risk due to the remote nature of the actual ...
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The Port of Long Beach has been the busiest port in the U.S. the last six months, as imports surged ahead of anticipated tariffs.
Dockworkers and terminal operators moved 817,457 twenty-foot equivalent units last month, or TEUs, up 25 percent from March 2024. Imports grew 25.8 ...
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C.H. Robinson has performed more than 3 million shipping tasks with its fleet of generative artificial intelligence agents, proprietary tech tools the global logistics provider has built to automate steps across the lifecycle of a shipment and reduce customers’ speed-to-market from hours to seconds.
“That’s 3 ...
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Countries in the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization struck a deal April 11 in London on a global fuel emission standard for the maritime sector that will wield a stick against violators and a carrot for vessels burning cleaner fuels, Reuters reported.
A majority of countries ...
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A Senate bill was reintroduced April 10 that would establish a “unified, federal response” to the rampant spread of cargo theft by criminals who often operate across state and international borders.
The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act, reintroduced by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) ...
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