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American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index decreased 2.1% in July, following a revised 1.6% decline during June. In July, the index equaled 134.3 (2000=100), down from 137.1 in June. The all-time high was 144 in February.
Compared with July 2015, the SA index rose just 0.3%, the smallest year-over-year gain in 2016. In June, the year-over-year increase was 2.1%.Year-to-date, compared with the same period in 2015, ...
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Fednav Limited, the largest international bulk shipowner in Canada, recently welcomed to the Port of Indiana – Burns Harbor, the Federal Caribou, one of seven new oceangoing lakers equipped with a ballast water treatment system—a first for the Great Lakes. This vessel protects the Lakes ...
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The Maryland Department of Transportation Port Administration (MPA) announced on August 23 that it has signed long-time forest products customer UPM to a new 10-year contract extension. The agreement guarantees the continued shipment of UPM paper products through the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore. ...
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DynaLiners Daily reports that Matson will initiate South Pacific Express (SPX), a new monthly service between Hawaii and various Pacific Islands. It is to serve as transshipment connection from the US West Coast. A single 500 TEU vessel will call at: Honolulu, Apia (Samoa), Pago ...
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CEVA Logistics has appointed Willie Parra Fonseca as Country Manager Costa Rica. He will be based at the company’s San José office reporting to Mike Wilson, Senior Vice President and head of the Central America cluster.
Parra has an extensive track record in both project management ...
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Metro trains are heading to Peru thanks to efforts by Hapag-Lloyd to load a metro train with six cars on August 16 in Salerno, Italy. The train will be shipped aboard the “Cerinthus” to the Peruvian port of Callao. From there, it will be transported ...
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NextGen is bringing new benefits to Salt Lake City International Airport through a technology called Data Comm. Data Comm revolutionizes communications between air traffic controllers and pilots by replacing some traditional voice communications with digital information exchanges.
Voice communication is labor intensive, time consuming and can ...
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The Panama Canal celebrated 102 years of successful operations and service to the global maritime community on August 15, just one day after welcoming its 100th transit through the Expanded waterway.
The two milestones punctuate a year for the Canal which has already been marked by ...
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Port Hueneme, CA, has received its first Neo-Panamax ship, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics' High Efficiency Ro/Ro (HERO) vessel, Thalatta. Almost 200 meters long and 36.5 meters wide, the ship can carry 8,000 car equivalent units.
Port Hueneme officials say the arrival of the giant vessel marks a ...
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Maryland’s own ‘Fun Ship’ will continue sailing from the Helen Delich Bentley Port of Baltimore as Carnival Cruise Line has agreed to a contract extension through December 2018 with three one-year options. The deal means Carnival’s Baltimore-based ship, the Carnival Pride, will continue offering five ...
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